The signal for price increase in cloud-based services has appeared, signaling the start of an upward cycle in computing power.
With the gradual release of deep thinking models such as Deepseek R1 and openAI o1/o3, the demand for high-performance computing on the inference side is rapidly being unleashed, leading to a rapid expansion of Capex by major companies like Alibaba and Tencent, with a quarterly capital expenditure increase of over 250% in Q4 2024, marking the formal entry of the cloud upstream into a new upward cycle.
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The DeepSeek large model promotes cost reduction and efficiency improvement, and AI Education products are expected to accelerate commercialization.
① Education is one of the core scenarios for the application of AI. The use of AI technology to reduce costs and increase efficiency makes it possible for education to balance high quality, inclusiveness, and personalization, and is expected to deeply empower education by improving delivery efficiency and enhancing personalized experiences for students. ② The domestic AI + education B2B and B2C markets are expected to reach 47.7 billion yuan and 28.2 billion yuan respectively by 2027, while the AI + companionship market is anticipated to reach a trillion level within 3-5 years.
Joining hands with CITIC REITs to support Suning, once CHINA HUARONG has been incorporated into CITIC, it shows a strong recovery.
① With CITIC Financial Assets intervening in the bailout, Suning E-commerce's Operation is steadily recovering, achieving nearly its first profit in 4 years in 2024; ② Since CITIC took over, CHINA HUARONG (i.e., CITIC Financial Assets), which had been mired in losses exceeding 100 billion, has also significantly improved its performance.
The fair value changes of the invested enterprises are expected to drag Pci Technology Group's net loss to over 100 million last year | Interpretations
① Pci Technology Group is expected to turn positive in terms of non-recurring profit last year, and the company's fundamentals have seen some improvement. ② However, due to the impact of fair value fluctuations from CloudWalk Technology and others, Pci Technology Group expects a net loss for the entire year. ③ Pci Technology Group has frequently sold shares of CloudWalk Technology, stating that the shareholding will not affect the cooperation between the two parties.