At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai, Huawei Cloud announced a comprehensive suite of enterprise AI products and services designed to accelerate the adoption of agentic AI across industries. Dr. Peter Zhou, Director of the Board at Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud, delivered a keynote emphasizing the shift to an "agentic cloud" that supports efficient token processing, enhanced memory, unified scheduling, and secure autonomy. The announcements underscore Huawei Cloud's ambition to provide the infrastructure and platforms necessary for enterprises to develop, deploy, and scale AI agents effectively.
The global launch of the latest AI Cluster Service (AICS) represents a significant step in strengthening the silicon bedrock for agentic AI. Built on a five-level fast recovery mechanism with full-chain observability, AICS supports over 40 days of stable training on cloud and enables fault recovery within 10 minutes. It delivers 20% higher token throughput than the previous generation, thanks to coordinated optimization across scheduling, cache, and algorithms. The service will be commercially available in China on September 30 and in international markets on November 30. This matters because reliable, high-performance infrastructure is critical for enterprises running long-horizon AI tasks, and AICS directly addresses the need for efficiency and resilience in production environments.
Complementing AICS is the Context Memory Storage (CMS) solution, which tackles the memory capacity and access efficiency challenges of long-horizon agent tasks. CMS provides petabyte-scale memory space with twice the storage capacity of comparable industry products and supports high-speed terabyte-scale memory reads with 50% higher performance than peers. This advancement is important as AI agents increasingly require rapid access to vast amounts of contextual data to function effectively in real-world scenarios.
Huawei Cloud also highlighted its Agentic Model as a Service (MaaS) platform, which brings together diverse models, enabling developers to invoke state-of-the-art models from leading providers with one click and no deployment required. At the event, MiniMax demonstrated its advanced multimodal model integrated with Huawei Cloud. The AgentArts enterprise-grade agent platform, already serving over 100 enterprises, opens up more than 5,000 general Model Context Protocol (MCP) assets and over 1,000 industry-specific MCP assets. Customers include the Shenzhen Longgang District Government, China Southern Power Grid, and Kingsoft Office, among others. Kingsoft Office shared how it built vertical office agents by integrating AgentArts with WPS 365 and WPS Comate. AgentArts will be commercially available outside China on December 30. This platform is crucial because it lowers the barrier for enterprises to develop and manage agents, fostering innovation and operational efficiency.
The Industry AI Foundry has accumulated over 1,000 industry assets and deployed more than 1,000 projects across five zones: Smart Healthcare, Embodied AI, AI for Science, Smart Manufacturing, and Smart Finance. Two new zones—Smart Government and AI Hardware—have been launched. The Smart Government Zone has 24 founding partners covering government operations, public services, and urban governance. The AI Hardware Zone includes 15 core partners and over 20 device types, such as AI glasses and AI toys. These expansions are significant as they transform isolated industry know-how into reusable capabilities, accelerating AI adoption at scale across sectors.
Together, these initiatives reflect Huawei Cloud's commitment to building an open agentic cloud that empowers enterprises and partners to thrive in the agentic era. For more information, visit HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 online.
