Smiling bitterly, computing industry professional Wang Zhi said, “In the future, intelligent computing business will definitely become the main pillar of independent cloud vendors’ revenue, otherwise there will be no other pillars.”

At the end of 2022, the independent cloud vendor where Wang Zhi worked was also scarred in the price war of selling CDN (content delivery networks) and public cloud services. At that time, the cloud computing market was concentrated at the top, leaving little room for small and medium-sized vendors; even UCloud, QingCloud, Kingsoft Cloud, etc., which have successfully listed, continued to decline in revenue and increase in losses, which made investors lose confidence.

It was only the emergence of generative AI when independent cloud vendors saw new hope, and Wang Zhi’s company began its first attempt in the field of intelligent computing: selling resources. He clearly remembers the first thought that came to his mind after completing the first A800 machine transaction in early 2023:

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