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, signalling faster commercialisation of AI demand. CSC re

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, signalling faster commercialisation of AI demand. CSC remains positive on compute-power chain beneficiaries: optical modules, servers, liquid cooling and cloud services.