CSC Financial research note: OpenAI will cut GPT-5.6SolAPI prices by over 20% on Aug 21, reducing high-performance model invocation costs and likely boosting Agent, code-generation and other high‑token use cases, sustaining inference-side compute dem

2026-08-25

CSC Financial research note: OpenAI will cut GPT-5.6SolAPI prices by over 20% on Aug 21, reducing high-performance model invocation costs and likely boosting Agent, code-generation and other high‑token use cases, sustaining inference-side compute demand. Alibaba’s latest quarterly AI Cloud and Compute Services revenue was about 48.4 bln yuan, up 45% YoY; AI-related product revenue has logged triple-digit growth for 12 consecutive quarters, signaling faster commercialization of AI demand. CSC remains positive on compute-power chain Beneficiaries: optical modules, servers, liquid cooling and cloud services.