Huawei Cloud is building an open agentic cloud

With the launch of its latest AI Cluster Service (AICS), Huawei Cloud is reinforcing the foundation for agentic AI.

This is the word from Dr Peter Zhou, director of the board at Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud, speaking at the Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai.

He also highlighted the Agentic Model as a Service (MaaS) platform, which brings together diverse models to accelerate model capabilities as services at scale.

The AgentArts enterprise-grade agent platform already serves over 100 enterprises, while the Industry AI Foundry has accumulated more than 1 000 industry assets, with over 1 000 projects deployed. The Industry AI Foundry now includes two new zones, Smart Government Zone and AI Hardware Zone, to drive agents toward large-scale adoption.

These efforts, taken together, are building an AI ecosystem on the cloud. Dr Zhou says.

Building Agentic Infra for agents

Dr Zhou also highlighted that, in the agentic era, infrastructure no longer simply exists to provide compute. Instead, its purpose has expanded to making every token more efficient, coordinating general and AI compute, enabling models to keep learning, and – more importantly – running agents securely and reliably within real production environments.

To address this, Huawei Cloud has defined Agentic Infra, a new paradigm around efficient tokens, enhanced memory, unified general and AI scheduling, and secure autonomy. To date, Agentic Infra has served over 3 500 customers.

It includes the following featurs:

• The latest AICS

  is built on a five-level fast recovery mechanism with full-chain observability. It supports over 40 days of stable training on cloud and is capable of fault recovery within 10 minutes. Furthermore, supported by coordinated optimisation across scheduling, cache, and algorithms, it delivers 20% higher token throughput than the previous generation of compute service. The latest AICS will be commercially available in China on September 30 and in markets outside China on November 30.

• The Context Memory Storage (CMS)

  solution addresses the needs of long-horizon agent tasks for memory capacity and access efficiency. It provides a petabyte-scale memory space, twice the storage capacity of comparable industry products, and supports high-speed terabyte-scale memory reads with 50% higher performance than industry peers.

• Agentic MaaS

  brings together diverse models, enabling developers to invoke state-of-the-art (SOTA) models from leading providers with just one click and no deployment required. At the event, MiniMax demonstrated its advanced multimodal model, which, combined with Huawei Cloud, delivers open, cutting-edge multimodal capabilities.

Building an enterprise-grade agent platform

Huawei Cloud is advancing its enterprise-grade agent platform through a dual approach: commercial and open source. Built on AgentArts and its open-source edition, openJiuwen, the platform opens up more than 5 000 general Model Context Protocol (MCP) assets and over 1 000 industry-specific MCP assets, making it easier for enterprises to develop, use, and manage agents.

To date, the platform has served more than 100 customers.

Huawei Cloud has announced that AgentArts will be commercially available in markets outside China on December 30. To date, the openJiuwen open-source community has surpassed 50 000 stars and 3,29-million downloads.

Advancing the Industry AI Foundry

Through the Industry AI Foundry, Huawei Cloud brings together assets such as industry scenarios, models, data, knowledge, and agents, turning isolated project know-how into reusable industry capabilities. It has built five industry-specific zones — Smart Healthcare Zone, Embodied AI Zone, AI for Science (AI4S) Zone, Smart Manufacturing Zone, and Smart Finance Zone — with over 1 000 industry-specific assets and more than 1 000 deployed projects.

Two new zones have been launched within the Industry AI Foundry: Smart Government Zone and AI Hardware Zone. The Smart Government Zone has already brought together 24 founding partners, covering scenarios such as government office operations, public services, urban governance, and industry development. The AI Hardware Zone has onboarded 15 core partners, covering more than 20 device types, including AI glasses, AI toys, and AI recording cards, along with over 10 scenario templates and more than 110 scenario skills.

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