Huawei Cloud announced an Agentic Infra framework at its INSPIRE event, covering token generation, persistent memory, unified scheduling, and secure autonomous runtime. The release includes AICS, AMS, CCE Volcano Next, AgentSphere, ModelArts Next, AgentArts, and the open-source openJiuwen project. It also introduced industry AI zones, CloudRobo for embodied AI, security offerings, and an ecosystem plan with major Chinese model vendors.
Simon Willison highlights Chad Whitacre’s decision to leave tech and Open Source, framed not as a forum threat but as concrete action. Whitacre describes wanting to become “AI Amish” or “Internet Amish,” moving toward an offline, analog life closer to 1980 than 1780. A previous post about using Claude Code with Opus 4.5 shows how agentic AI felt intoxicating and unsettling enough to push him away from technological accelerationism.