Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Ltd's stock surged 5.27% during pre-market trading on Friday, following a significant company announcement regarding its strategic direction in artificial intelligence infrastructure.

The price movement appears to be driven by Kingsoft Cloud's comprehensive upgrade of its "Kingsoft Cloud Starstream" intelligent computing platform, which was announced recently. The upgraded platform now includes a full lifecycle training and inference platform, along with the official release of a robotics platform and model API services. This strategic move positions the company as an engineering companion in the AI ecosystem, focusing on providing stable, efficient, and cost-effective token services as large models become increasingly integrated into various applications.

Company executives highlighted their focus on three core themes: pursuing efficiency gains, building industry platforms, and accelerating inference deployment. The announcement also emphasized Kingsoft Cloud's vision for embodied intelligence as the "second half" of intelligent computing cloud, with particular attention to applications in autonomous driving and humanoid robots. The company's reported 120% year-on-year growth in the third quarter of last year further underscores its momentum in capturing opportunities within the evolving AI infrastructure landscape.