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.