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IT Home reported on November 3 that Huawei Cloud announced on November 1 that its MaaS (Model as a Service) platform will stop selling the openPangu-2.0-Flash and openPangu-2.0-Pro model services at 00:00 on November 6, 2026 (Beijing time), and officially take them offline at 00:00 on November 30.
Huawei Cloud recommends that users complete their migration before the services are officially taken offline. In addition, new versions of the openPangu series models are being planned and will be launched gradually. As of IT Home’s publication, Huawei Cloud had not disclosed the specific models or timetable for the new versions.
Under Huawei Cloud’s schedule, after sales end on November 6, new users will be unable to purchase or activate either model service, while existing purchasers can continue using them; after the services are taken offline on November 30, neither new nor existing users will be able to call them.
Huawei Cloud also provided alternatives: it recommends replacing openPangu-2.0-Flash with DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and openPangu-2.0-Pro with GLM-5.3.
Huawei Cloud said that models differ in supported capabilities, API parameters, unit prices and performance on actual tasks, and that users should read the model descriptions and conduct necessary evaluations before migrating.
MaaS (Model as a Service, in which cloud providers make AI models available for use through APIs) is Huawei Cloud’s model service platform for enterprise developers.
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