Mininglamp Technology (2718.HK) Open-Sources Octo, Securing a Strategic Position in the Trillion-RMB Market of the "Internet of Agents" Era

On June 29, 2026, Mininglamp Technology (2718.HK) officially open-sourced and released Octo. The company defines it as the "world's first open-source and trusted Agent collaboration network," licensed under the Apache 2.0 protocol.

Mininglamp Technology believes that the core proposition for the next stage of AI Agents is not blindly expanding model parameters or constructing a single super-intelligent agent, but rather enabling different Agents to work collaboratively within the same network.

What Octo aims to do is precisely to build the "Internet between Agents." Mininglamp's Octo chooses to enter the market via an open-source, neutral, and privatized approach, which is equivalent to providing an option that enterprises can control autonomously at the underlying protocol layer of the "Internet of Agents."

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It is understood that Octo encompasses four dimensions: Open (open access), Context (context sharing), Taste (preference evolution), and Orchestration (multi-bot orchestration). It is a new-generation work platform built by Mininglamp Technology that is open-source and dedicated to human-AI Agent collaboration.

If OpenClaw solves the problem of "how a single lobster comes alive," Octo solves the problem of "how hundreds and thousands of lobsters connect into a network and work collaboratively." Instead of relying on a single giant model, it utilizes distributed collaboration across multiple small models, featuring open-source code, keeping data within the enterprise network, and ensuring security and controllability.

In traditional AI tool usage scenarios, Agents often exist as isolated islands—they memorize and execute independently, lacking a unified collaboration interface and task routing mechanism.

Through collaborative architectures such as Channels and Threads, Octo establishes a shared fundamental network for collaboration between humans and AI, as well as between AI and AI. It essentially serves as the Internet between Agents.

Furthermore, every Bot has its exclusive profile card and work logs, ensuring clear ownership, rights, and responsibilities. When follow-up tasks emerge during discussions, the Agent automatically summarizes the key points, and upon human confirmation, instantly creates a "Matter." Detailed records are maintained throughout, spanning from the brief, process discussions, outputs, and feedback to the final acceptance conclusion.

Public records indicate that Mininglamp Technology has been promoting an AI-Native work model since 2025. Currently, over 3,000 Agents and more than 1,400 employees work collaboratively on the Octo platform.

On the external delivery front, digital workforces are delivered to clients via the Agentic Services model, which has already been implemented across three scenarios: brand advertising, Xiaohongshu marketing, and Douyin e-commerce. Wu Minghui, founder of Mininglamp Technology, summarized this strategic path as "Scaling Out"—rather than feeding data into a centralized brain, intelligence is allowed to grow in a distributed manner right where the data is generated.

Financial reports show that in 2025, Mininglamp Technology's Agentic Services business generated over RMB 100 million in its first year of revenue.

From a "Model Company" to a "Protocol-Layer Player"

Since 2026, Mininglamp Technology has completed a progressively advanced layout in the direction of Agentic AI: from open-sourcing the edge-side model Mano-P and the inference framework Cider, alongside releasing the AI-Native hardware Octic in May, to releasing Mano-CUA-2.0 in June, and open-sourcing Octo on June 29.

With this, Mininglamp Technology has become the only AI company in the Hong Kong stock market to concurrently possess a five-tier capability spanning edge-side models, inference engines, Agent collaboration platforms, hardware entry points, and Agent collaboration protocols.

The release of Octo marks the company's leap from "providing AI capabilities" to "defining the underlying rules of AI collaboration." It is no longer just building Agents, but building the infrastructure for how Agents connect, communicate, and work together.

Currently, the layouts of overseas tech giants in the direction of multi-agent collaboration are invariably closed-source, cloud-based, and locked into their proprietary ecosystems. In contrast, Octo enters via an open-source, neutral, and privatized approach, providing an option that enterprises can autonomously control at the underlying protocol layer of the "Internet of Agents." This choice not only forms a clear differentiated competitive barrier but is also expected to make Octo one of the de facto standards for enterprise-grade Agent collaboration through the network effects of the open-source ecosystem.

If Agentic Services represents Mininglamp Technology's first business model transition from "selling software" to "selling results," then the open-sourcing of Octo represents its second transition from "selling services" to "selling an ecosystem."

As more enterprises and developers build their own Agent collaboration networks based on Octo, Mininglamp Technology will occupy an irreplaceable niche in the Agentic AI industrial chain as an infrastructure provider at the collaboration layer.

GF Securities explicitly pointed out in its 2026 mid-term strategy report that AI is entering its fourth round of iteration—the Agent Era (self-planning, self-execution). The refinement of Agent tools is bringing about deep cost reductions and efficiency gains. Similarly, CMS China judged that the emergence of OpenClaw upgrades AI from an "intelligent tool" into an "autonomous and collaborative digital entity."

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China Galaxy Securities pointed out in its Digital Economy Weekly that the key to future competition will no longer merely be model performance, but rather who can take the lead in building an Agent ecosystem that covers models, tools, data, and scenarios.

Octo is not an isolated product, but rather the "operating system layer" of Mininglamp Technology's entire Agentic AI strategy. It reshapes isolated AI Agents into collaborative, orchestratable, and evaluable organization-level digital workforces.

As Octo attracts more enterprises and developers to connect post-open-sourcing, the delivery capabilities and scenario coverage of Agentic Services will be vastly amplified—Octo transforms Agents from "personal assistants" into "organizational productivity." Octo's positioning at the open-source protocol layer is poised to secure it a vital position in this incremental market. Whoever defines how Agents collaborate will hold the underlying discourse power in the Agentic AI era.

In the Implementation Opinions on the Innovative Development of "Artificial Intelligence + Information Communications" issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) in June 2026, "AI Agents" were written into a national-level industrial roadmap for the first time. The policy level has realized that the next stage of competition in AI is shifting from "building a stronger brain" to "connecting many brains into a network." Octo is a direct response from the industry side to this policy direction.

On June 29, the executive meeting of the State Council pointed out that it is necessary to deeply implement the "Artificial Intelligence+" initiative, leverage China's advantages such as a complete industrial system and rich application scenarios, and accelerate the large-scale commercial application of intelligent products and services.

According to the 2026 China Enterprise-Grade AI Agent Industry White Paper released by the Data Center Committee of the China Communications Industry Association, the market size of China's enterprise-grade AI Agents was RMB 21.2 billion in 2025, is expected to reach RMB 44.9 billion in 2026, and is projected to surpass RMB 332 billion by 2029, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 107% from 2024 to 2029.

Research and Markets pointed out in a report that the multi-agent system (MAS) platform market is valued at USD 18.7 billion in 2026 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 40.6% to reach USD 285.6 billion by 2034.‌

By open-sourcing Octo, Mininglamp Technology is essentially securing an early position at the underlying protocol layer of the "Internet between Agents" at the industrial inflection point where Agentic AI transitions from "standalone operations" to "coordinated group operations."

As the MIIT writes "AI Agents" into the national industrial roadmap for the first time, and Jensen Huang announces the arrival of the Agentic AI era, the large model company Mininglamp Technology, through its sustained deployments throughout 2026, is paving an infrastructure pathway that enterprises can autonomously control for this upcoming "Internet of Agents" era.

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