Kingsoft Cloud's stock price plummeted 5.33% during intraday trading on Wednesday.
The decline reflects market concerns triggered by a fundamental shift in the telecom industry. China Telecom and China Mobile have officially launched trial commercial Token packages, signaling a strategic pivot from traditional traffic-based billing to a Token pricing model. This transition is viewed as a paradigm leap that ties telecom operator revenue directly to AI model invocation volume, prompting a reassessment of the cloud services value chain.
As an independent cloud services provider, Kingsoft Cloud faces investor worries that telecom operators' entry into standardized Token distribution could displace traditional cloud service models. The broader internet services and infrastructure sector showed similar pressure during the session.