SHANGHAI, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei Cloud Stack Summit, themed "Agentic Hybrid Cloud: Powering a New Era of Intelligence," brought together leading enterprises from around the world to explore emerging trends in digital infrastructure and AI and share insights from real-world deployments, highlighting how AI can unlock new levels of productivity across industries.

A deterministic hybrid cloud architecture offers enterprises a clear path forward in the agentic AI era

Antonony Gu, President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, delivered a keynote speech at the summit, highlighting three fundamental changes in the agentic AI era:

• The actors driving business execution are changing: from humans using applications to human-agent collaboration and agent-to-agent (A2A) collaboration. AI agents are emerging at scale as a new class of digital employees.
• Resource provisioning is changing: AI agents are task-oriented, relying on compute, data, and models that are packaged and readily available for invocation. Resource delivery is shifting from layer-by-layer assembly to integrated capabilities organized around agent-driven tasks.
• What's being managed is changing: The focus is shifting from traditional IT resources, such as compute, storage, and networking, to AI compute, data, and models. Managing these resources through separate systems can create new IT silos.

Addressing these changes, Huawei Cloud has introduced an AI agent-ready hybrid cloud architecture^Next, comprising four key capabilities: an agile, elastic cloud infrastructure designed for continuous evolution and unified general-purpose and AI compute; an AI-native capability hub that connects data, compute, and tokens; an agent-native enablement platform for developing and running AI agents at scale; and intelligent operations and end-to-end security capabilities covering the entire AI agent lifecycle. Antonony Gu emphasized, "As AI agent adoption continues to accelerate over the next three to five years, a deterministic hybrid cloud architecture is a clear path forward for enterprises in the agentic world."

All for AI: Huawei Cloud Stack evolves for the agentic AI era

As the agentic AI era approaches, Huawei Cloud Stack is evolving across four key areas: infrastructure, data, AI, and ecosystem.

• Infrastructure evolution, building the foundation for AI: Huawei Cloud Stack builds Agentic Infra as the foundation for the AI era. This infrastructure supports the latest A5 SuperPoDs. With technologies like NPU pooling and memory snapshots, compute utilization can increase from 30% to 70%. Huawei Cloud Stack also provides an observable, measurable, and governable operations and management framework for AI agents, turning cloud management platforms into intelligent management hubs. It further provides end-to-end protection for infrastructure, models, and AI agents.
• Unleashing data value, turning enterprise data into intelligent productivity: Huawei Cloud Stack provides end-to-end data lifecycle capabilities for reliable data management, efficient data delivery, intelligent data use, and trusted data circulation. With a decoupled storage and compute architecture, AI DataLake for multimodal data management, and DataArts for intelligent, data-driven decision-making, Huawei Cloud Stack helps turn data from a resource into a source of productivity while laying a solid data foundation for the agentic AI era.
• AI-driven industry, bringing AI into production across industries: Huawei Cloud is increasing its investment in foundation models and integrating such models with industry know-how to drive automated model iteration and continuous evolution. It offers leading domain-specific foundation models, such as Vision-Language Model (VLM), Scientific Computing Model, and Prediction Model, as well as OptVerse AI Solver for optimization and decision-making. Meanwhile, Huawei Cloud Stack leverages its model training and inference platform to deliver high-performance inference and a reliable supply of high-quality tokens, ensuring uninterrupted execution of agent tasks.
• Partner co-creation, building an open AI ecosystem together: Huawei Cloud remains committed to open collaboration on AI, backed by targeted incentives and dedicated AI and service capability improvement programs. Together with partners and developers, Huawei Cloud is building an Industry AI Foundry. By bringing together reference solutions and practices from areas such as Smart Finance and Smart Government, it aims to accelerate the replication of proven AI solutions across enterprise scenarios.

Bridging the last mile of production-grade AI: Success stories across industries

As Africa's largest bank by assets, Standard Bank operates across more than 20 countries and serves over one-fifth of Africa's population. The bank has chosen Huawei Cloud Stack to build a new, cloud-based banking core. Khomotso Molabe, CIO for Personal & Private Banking and Group Deputy CIO at Standard Bank Group, said that Huawei Cloud Stack meets the bank's evolving needs for modernizing its core banking systems while ensuring zero data loss and zero errors. This marks a critical step in Standard Bank's transition to a cloud-native architecture, laying a solid foundation for greater business agility in the future.

Hassan Abbas, CEO of Sky47, shared how Pakistan is rapidly advancing from cloud to AI-driven transformation. He explained that Sky47 has built a national AI cloud platform on Huawei Cloud Stack, integrating locally deployed cloud infrastructure, AI compute, and model development and management capabilities powered by Huawei Cloud ModelArts. The platform provides unified management of compute, storage, networking, and AI resources, and supports the full model lifecycle, from development and deployment to inference and operations. It currently supports a wide range of AI applications, including intelligent Q&A, AI assistants, and generative AI, across key sectors such as finance, manufacturing, energy, and high-tech. By delivering secure, easy-to-use, and scalable cloud and AI services, the platform is helping drive intelligent transformation and injecting new momentum into Pakistan's digital economy and AI industry.

The agentic AI era is opening up new possibilities for enterprises. Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud Stack, guided by the principle of "All for AI," will continue to invest heavily in Agentic Infra, data, and AI. Together with partners, Huawei Cloud Stack will foster an open ecosystem, helping enterprises build, use, and manage cloud environments efficiently and bring AI into production across industries.