aiqbench analysis
Consumers buying AI call quotas through livestream shopping, and listed firms reorienting toward "token factories," suggests AI usage is being packaged as a retail good. The reported figures are promotional sales numbers and company statements, not independent adoption or revenue data, so the scale of real demand is still unclear. For AI readers, the useful signals are how pricing, token-based revenue-sharing contracts, and consumer-facing AI subscriptions evolve.
Tokens Become Hot Sellers in Double 11 Livestreams as Listed Computing Power Firms Step Up Bets on Token Economy
This year's Double 11 shopping festival saw tokens emerge as a new bestselling category in livestream rooms. Li Jiaqi's livestream room launched a monthly membership card for Qwen office use for individuals; a 0.01-yuan trial version sold 100,000 units within half an hour, corresponding to about 2 trillion tokens in call quota. Artificial intelligence (AI) computing power services reached massive individual users through a leading livestream channel for the first time, opening the curtain on mass consumption of computing power. Several computing power companies listed on the A-share market disclosed business progress on investor interaction platforms, responding to their layouts in the token economy track from multiple dimensions. A person in charge at Xingyun Technology said the company has established a dual core business of "cross-border digital trade and AI computing infrastructure," is building a token factory business, and has included token revenue-sharing clauses in computing power contracts. Information on iFlytek's interaction platform showed that C-end smart office products continue to scale up, and the expansion of individual user numbers is steadily driving up token call volume. (Securities Times)
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