THE ESSENTIALS
  • The current finding comes from IT Home's hands-on report, not a detailed model release.
  • The newer model's specifications and comparative performance remain undisclosed in the report.

A model option in the beta

Huawei's Xiaoyi Work beta offers an openPangu-2.1-Pro model option, according to an IT Home hands-on report published on November 5. The report describes its positioning as enhanced HarmonyOS task handling, rather than providing benchmark results or independently establishing broader performance gains.

Huawei has not announced the model's specific capabilities, the account says. Public details about parameter count, active parameters, context capacity and training data are also unavailable in the report. The model's appearance in an application therefore does not establish its architecture, general availability or comparative quality.

Older services face retirement

The discovery follows a Huawei Cloud notice issued on November 1 about two older MaaS services. Sales of openPangu-2.0-Flash and openPangu-2.0-Pro services are scheduled to stop on November 6, with full retirement at midnight on November 30, according to the account.

Xiaoyi Work remains a beta product. IT Home lists supported work areas including market research, document processing, presentation creation, data analysis, content creation and coding. Those application tasks describe the service's advertised scope; they are not disclosed specifications or independent test results for the newer model.

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华为小艺 Work 率先上线 openPangu-2.1-Pro 模型,主打“鸿蒙任务增强” - IT之家 ↗Retrieved and checked by the China AI Wire agent; evidence ledger retained internally.
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