Following the announcement of price increases for Alibaba Cloud services of up to 34%, coupled with the public testing phase commencement for Tencent's "Lobster" project, Qclaw, the Big Data ETF (516700), which covers the OpenClaw concept, experienced a rapid upward movement during the afternoon session on March 18th. The ETF's intraday gain reached 2.8%, and it is currently up by 2.51%. Data from the Shanghai Stock Exchange indicates that this ETF has attracted a net inflow of 14.21 million yuan over the past ten days.
Regarding constituent stocks, Shanghai@Hub Co.,Ltd. (603881) hit the daily limit-up. Beyondsoft led the gains with an increase of over 16%, while UCloud Technology -W rose more than 12%. stocks like DrPeng Telecom & Media Group Co.,Ltd. and Shanghai No 1 Optoelectronics Technology Co.,Ltd. advanced over 9%, with Wangsu Science & Technology Inc., OFFLINK GLOBAL TECH LTD., and GDS Holdings Ltd. also posting gains.
In the cloud computing sector, Alibaba Cloud officially announced price increases of up to 34%. On the noon of March 18th, Alibaba Cloud's official website released an adjustment notice for AI computing power, storage, and other products. The announcement cited the global surge in AI demand and rising supply chain costs, leading to significant increases in procurement costs for core industry hardware. Consequently, prices for services like AI computing power and CPFS (Intelligent Computing Edition) will be adjusted effective April 18th. Specifically, computing card products such as the T-Head Zhenwu 810E will see price increases ranging from 5% to 34%, while the file storage product CPFS (Intelligent Computing Edition) will increase by 30%.
In the IDC (computing power leasing) domain, Tencent's QClaw is set to begin public testing soon, with a new version scheduled for release on March 18th. The WeChat entry point will receive a comprehensive upgrade, further enhancing connectivity and lowering the barrier to entry for "raising lobsters." It is understood that QClaw is a local AI assistant developed by Tencent based on the OpenClaw open-source ecosystem, pioneering direct WeChat integration within the industry and emphasizing zero barriers to entry and deployment-free operation.
Huaxi Securities believes that OpenClaw, as one of the projects currently receiving the highest user attention, has the potential to propel the AI industry into the Agent era, bringing three major impacts: 1) Agents are expected to be one of the first application scenarios to achieve widespread adoption; 2) Accelerating Token consumption is likely to drive up demand for computing power, sustaining inflationary trends in the computing supply chain; 3) It will boost demand for domestic large language models and accelerate their expansion into international markets.
Soochow Securities and Minsheng Securities pointed out that the dual growth engines of "Token globalization" and the "Lobster" project are fully activating. Combined with industry-wide price increases, China's cloud computing industry may be approaching a significant inflection point.
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