# Cloud Computing Articoli collegati

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Annual Revenue of 13 Billion, Paying 17.2 Billion to Microsoft: The Truth Behind AI's Money-Burning in OpenAI's Leaked Ledger

Leaked OpenAI financial documents from June 2026 revealed that in 2025, the company achieved $13.07 billion in revenue, a 253% growth from 2024. However, this was accompanied by an operational loss of $20.92 billion and a net loss of roughly $8 billion. Despite ChatGPT surpassing 900 million weekly active users, the "burn rate" remained high: for every $1 earned, $1.60 was spent. The cost structure shows $34 billion in total costs. R&D was the largest expense at $19.18 billion, which included $10.59 billion paid to Microsoft. Compute costs for model inference were $7.5 billion, with sales and marketing at $5.73 billion. Notably, total payments to Microsoft reached $17.2 billion, accounting for over 50% of OpenAI's total costs and exceeding its annual revenue, highlighting a significant structural burden. This high-cost, high-loss model is an industry-wide trend. xAI reported a 2025 operational loss of $6.4 billion against $3.2 billion in revenue, spending $3 for every $1 earned. Anthropic, with a reported $90 billion annualized revenue by late 2025, also faced pressure with a 40% gross margin, lower than expected due to high inference costs. Combined, these top three firms' operational losses surpassed $30 billion in 2025. OpenAI's vast user base presents a monetization challenge. With only about 50 million of its 900 million weekly users paying (a ~5.6% conversion rate), the compute cost of serving free users is substantial. This contrasts with strategies like Anthropic's, which focuses on premium pricing for enterprise clients. The industry's path to profitability hinges on dramatically reducing marginal costs, particularly for inference, through innovations in specialized chips or model efficiency. Until then, massive capital inflows—like OpenAI's $122 billion funding round in March 2026—remain essential to fund the relentless pursuit of scale and advanced capabilities.

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Annual Revenue of 13 Billion, Paying 17.2 Billion to Microsoft: The Truth Behind AI's Money-Burning in OpenAI's Leaked Ledger

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Bitroot Public Chain Invited to Attend Tencent Cloud Singapore AI Conference, Discussing the Future Alongside Solana

On May 19, Bitroot, an emerging Layer 1 blockchain, participated in the Tencent Cloud AI Summit in Singapore alongside key industry players like Solana Foundation. The event explored the intersection of AI infrastructure, enterprise applications, AI Agents, and Web3. Bitroot's invitation, despite being pre-mainnet, highlights industry interest in its focus on high-performance, AI-native architecture tailored for future AI Agent execution and verifiable on-chain automation. Bitroot CEO Juan Jose emphasized that AI competition is shifting from model performance to data, real-world application scenarios, and trust infrastructure. He argued that for AI Agents to evolve from assistants to autonomous executors managing transactions and assets, they require low-latency, low-cost, and high-throughput blockchain environments. Bitroot aims to address this through its EVM-compatible design, optimistic parallel execution, and a consensus mechanism targeting high scalability. Currently in its Testnet 5.0 phase, Bitroot reports metrics like over 50,000 peak TPS and sub-0.3 second average block time. Its narrative positions it within a growing landscape where next-generation Layer 1s like Monad and Aptos also compete on performance, while Bitroot differentiates by integrating AI computational capabilities natively across its stack. The summit underscored that the fusion of AI and Web3 is moving from concept to infrastructure competition, where networks balancing performance, security, and verifiability will be crucial for enabling scalable AI-driven applications.

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Bitroot Public Chain Invited to Attend Tencent Cloud Singapore AI Conference, Discussing the Future Alongside Solana

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Can Alibaba Cloud Rewrite Itself?

Over the past five months, Alibaba Cloud's MaaS (Model as a Service) revenue has surged 15x, marking a strategic overhaul where the company is shifting its 17-year-old system designed for "humans using cloud" to a new paradigm centered on "Agents consuming Tokens." At its recent summit, Alibaba Cloud announced a full-stack upgrade encompassing "chip-cloud-model-inference," all optimized for AI Agents. Key launches include the new AI product portal "QianWen Cloud," hyper-node servers powered by the in-house AI chip Zhenwu M890, and the latest flagship model, Qwen3.7-Max. Senior VP Liu Weiguang described this as building "China's largest AI factory," where chips are raw materials, the cloud is the workshop, models are machines, and the inference platform is the assembly line, with Tokens as the final product. The company is now emphasizing its chip strategy, unveiling the Zhenwu M890 and a two-year roadmap for future chips. With over 560,000 chips deployed across 400+ clients, Alibaba Cloud aims to control the marginal cost per Token, mirroring Google's integration of TPU and Gemini for optimal cost-performance. The cloud infrastructure itself is being rewritten. Traditional cloud interfaces are being transformed into standardized, Agent-callable Skills. A new scheduling logic focuses on "task scheduling" over "resource scheduling" to handle the unpredictable, elastic workloads of Agents. Liu noted that AI applications now automatically provision cloud resources, with one customer's daily automated provisioning equaling two weeks of manual work. For models, the focus has shifted from conversational prowess to execution capability. Qwen3.7-Max demonstrated this by autonomously writing and optimizing a production-grade AI compute kernel for the new Zhenwu M890 chip over 35 hours, achieving a 10x performance improvement. The underlying Bailian platform was upgraded for efficiency, and it maintains an open ecosystem, hosting third-party models. This restructuring extends beyond technology to sales, organization, and metrics. Alibaba Cloud has established dedicated MaaS sales teams, separated from traditional IaaS, with new KPIs focusing on high-quality Tokens that solve real problems, the number of core business systems integrated with models, and the efficiency of Agent task completion. The underlying bet is clear: AI represents an opportunity orders of magnitude larger than before. Despite the uncertainty, Alibaba Cloud is aggressively rebuilding its entire system, betting on an AI-driven future where Tokens could become its largest product line.

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China Mobile Launches Token-Included Phone Plan

China's three major telecom operators—China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom—have simultaneously launched nationwide "Token packages" for consumers. Starting from as low as 9.9 RMB per month for 10 million tokens, these plans allow direct payment via phone bills, positioning AI usage tokens as a new type of basic telecom commodity akin to traditional data or call packages. Each operator has adopted slightly different strategies: China Telecom offers tiered personal and enterprise plans bundled with bandwidth and security services; China Mobile integrates tokens with cloud computing packages and partners with Tencent; while China Unicom provides free trial tokens and team plans. Despite minor price variations, their core approach is unified: selling computational tokens directly to their massive combined user base of over 1.7 billion subscribers. The significance lies not in groundbreaking pricing but in the unparalleled distribution channel. By embedding token sales into existing billing systems, operators are demystifying AI access, transforming tokens from a niche developer resource into a mainstream utility. This collective move by state-backed carriers signals a strategic industry shift from "traffic management" to "computing power management," potentially reshaping the AI API market landscape and making token purchases as simple as topping up phone credit.

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China Mobile Launches Token-Included Phone Plan

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When Computing Power Becomes Commoditized, How Long Until a GPU Futures Market Emerges?

"When Will GPU Futures Arrive? A Framework for Assessing Compute as a Commodity" The article explores the potential for a robust futures market for compute power (GPUs), arguing that such a market is not yet mature but may emerge. It analyzes the landscape using a five-part framework developed for new commodity futures markets. The analysis scores the current state: * **Fragmented Supply (Red)**: Supply is highly concentrated among hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle), limiting the need for price discovery. * **Price Volatility (Green)**: GPU pricing is already highly volatile due to uncertain supply and surging demand. * **Physical Settlement Infrastructure (Green)**: Early infrastructure exists via OTC brokers and price indices (e.g., Ornn, Silicon Data) standardizing contracts. * **Standardized Unit (Red)**: A lack of standardized, tradable units hinders markets; a GPU instance hour varies by region, configuration, and contract terms. * **Lack of Alternatives (Yellow)**: Large players hedge internally via vertical integration, while smaller players bear spot market risk. Overall, the market shows promise (volatility, early infrastructure) but lacks the fragmented supply and standardization needed for large-scale futures trading. Most activity remains OTC. Key open questions and hypotheses: 1. Supply is expected to fragment moderately in 1-2 years, driven by new cloud providers, cheap power locations, and demand from non-frontier labs and AI startups using open-source models. 2. Standardization is most likely to emerge around inference workloads (forecast to be >65% of AI compute demand by 2029), which have simpler, more homogeneous hardware needs than training. Widespread adoption of open-source model weights could accelerate this by democratizing inference and creating demand for optimized, standardized infrastructure. 3. The primary traded unit will likely be the **"chip instance hour"** (akin to electricity, traded regionally), not the physical chip or the downstream AI output (tokens).

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When Computing Power Becomes Commoditized, How Long Until a GPU Futures Market Emerges?

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Plummeting Around 12%, Duan Yongping's Bottom-Fishing CoreWeave Turns into a Fierce Battlefield Between Bulls and Bears

On May 8th, AI cloud computing provider CoreWeave (CRWV) plunged 11.4% following its Q1 2026 earnings report, intensifying the polarized market view on the stock. While revenue doubled year-over-year to $2.08B and its Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO) surged to nearly $100B, its net loss also widened to $740M. The key trigger was a weaker-than-expected Q2 revenue forecast, coupled with rising costs that compressed adjusted operating margin to just 1%. The bull thesis centers on CoreWeave's massive order backlog, deep strategic ties with NVIDIA as a key customer and investor, and client diversification with major names like Anthropic and Meta. Supporters point to its 'hyperscale' status and over $20B in recent financing. Bears highlight the "growth at all costs" model: despite soaring revenue, losses are expanding, capital expenditures are massive (~$6.8B in Q1), and total debt has ballooned to around $25B. Significant insider selling by executives adds to skepticism. This contrast is embodied by investor Duan Yongping (known as "China's Buffett"), who initiated a small, exploratory position (~0.12% of his portfolio) in Q4 2025 near the stock's lows, viewing it as a speculative bet on the AI infrastructure chain. The upcoming Q2 report is seen as a critical test for management's promise of a profit margin rebound. CoreWeave remains a battleground stock where long-term narrative clashes with near-term financial reality.

marsbit05/09 09:15

Plummeting Around 12%, Duan Yongping's Bottom-Fishing CoreWeave Turns into a Fierce Battlefield Between Bulls and Bears