Kingsoft Cloud Q1 2026 Earnings Report

Kingsoft Cloud EPS Results

• Actual EPS: -$0.17
• Consensus EPS: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

Kingsoft Cloud Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $392.15 million
• Expected Revenue: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

Kingsoft Cloud Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q1 2026
• Date: 5/15/2026
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: N/A
• Conference Call Time: N/A

Kingsoft Cloud (NASDAQ:KC) Holdings Limited is a cloud service provider headquartered in China. The company offers public cloud, enterprise cloud and specialized cloud solutions designed to help organizations build, operate and scale digital applications and infrastructure.

Its products and services include cloud computing, cloud storage, content delivery networks, databases, big data and artificial intelligence services, as well as cloud-based security and network solutions. Kingsoft Cloud serves customers across industries such as internet services, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and public-sector organizations.

Founded in 2012, Kingsoft Cloud has developed a network of data centers and cloud infrastructure serving customers primarily in China, with services also available in selected international markets. The company became a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq under the symbol KC in 2020.

Kingsoft Cloud Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Kingsoft Cloud reported first-quarter revenue of RMB 2.7 billion, up 37.2% year over year, marking its eighth consecutive quarter of revenue growth. Public cloud remained the main driver, rising 47.5% year over year to RMB 2.0 billion.
• Positive Sentiment: AI cloud became the majority revenue contributor for the first time, with AI business revenue up 91% year over year to RMB 998 million and accounting for over 50% of public cloud revenue. Management said demand from AI coding and AI agents is driving both training and inference activity.
• Positive Sentiment: Profitability improved sharply, with adjusted EBITDA reaching RMB 748 million and margin expanding to 28%, up about 11 percentage points year over year. Management attributed the improvement to the growth in AI revenue and a better business mix.
• Neutral Sentiment: The company said it is seeing very strong demand and a large backlog across internet, AI, autonomous driving, robotics, and other sectors, but supply chain constraints are limiting how much demand can be fulfilled. It also noted that contract terms are becoming more flexible and that average AI rental pricing has increased.
• Positive Sentiment: Ecosystem momentum remained strong, with Xiaomi and Kingsoft ecosystem revenue up 68.9% year over year to about RMB 838 million, prompting a higher related-transaction cap for 2025-2027 of RMB 14.2 billion. Management also guided 2026 capital expenditures of roughly RMB 15 billion to RMB 20 billion, reflecting continued investment in AI infrastructure.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by for Kingsoft Cloud's first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After management's prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded. I will now turn the meeting over to your host for today's call, Mr. Wayne Wang, Investor Relations of Kingsoft Cloud. Please proceed, Wayne.

[Wayne Wang, Investor Relations at Kingsoft Cloud]

Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Kingsoft Cloud's first quarter 2026 earnings release was just built earlier today and is available on our website at ir.ksyun.com, as well as on PR Newswire services. On the call today from Kingsoft Cloud, we have our Chairman and CEO, Mr. Tao Zou, CFO, Ms. Yi Li, Senior Vice President, Mr. Tao Liu, Senior Vice President, Mr. Kaiyan Tian, Vice President, Mr. Wang Zhenzheng, and Joint Company Secretary, Mr. Bo Tian. Mr. Zou will discuss our business strategies, operations, and other company highlights, followed by Ms. Li, who will discuss the financial performance. They will be available to answer your questions during the Q&A session that follows. There will be consecutive interpretations. All interpretations are for your convenience and reference purposes only. In case of any discrepancy, management statement in the original language will prevail.

[Wayne Wang, Investor Relations at Kingsoft Cloud]

Before we begin, I would like to remind you that this conference call contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based upon management's current expectations and current market and operating conditions, and relate to events that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict, and many of which are beyond the company's control, which may cause the company's actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Further information regarding this and other risks, uncertainties, or factors are included in the company's filings with the U.S. SEC.

[Wayne Wang, Investor Relations at Kingsoft Cloud]

The company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required under applicable law. Finally, please note that unless otherwise stated, all financial figures mentioned during this conference call are denominated in RMB. It is now my pleasure to introduce our Chairman and CEO, Mr. Zou. Please go ahead.

[Tao Zou, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Kingsoft Cloud]

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[Translator]

Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Kingsoft Cloud's first quarter 2026 earnings call. I am Tao Zou, CEO of Kingsoft Cloud. Since the beginning of 2026, the continued adoption of AI coding, together with the rapid rise of AI agents, have driven AI to evolve from chat-oriented to action-oriented use cases.

[Translator]

This shift is fueling concurrent growth in both model inference and training demand, further expanding the ceiling of the cloud computing industry. This quarter, Kingsoft Cloud remains firmly committed to our high-quality and sustainable development strategy. We strengthened our AI cloud infrastructure and enhanced our training inference platform capabilities. In the meantime, we also further deepened our presence in industry-specific use cases, fully embracing AI's transformative role in reshaping the world. First, we sustained our momentum of high-quality growth. In terms of revenue, we recorded a total revenue of RMB 2.7 billion this quarter, representing a year-over-year growth of 37.2%. Both public cloud and enterprise cloud services achieved year-over-year growth. Among them, public cloud revenue reached RMB 2.0 billion, a year-over-year increase of 47.5%. In terms of profitability, our adjusted gross profit reached RMB 351 million, up 8.6% year-over-year.

[Translator]

Adjusted EBITDA was RMB 748 million, representing a year-over-year increase of 134.7%, with adjusted EBITDA margin reaching 27.6%, a significant year-over-year improvement of 11.4 percentage points. Second, AI cloud continued to drive the company's business growth. This quarter, AI cloud gross billings reached RMB 1.0 billion, a year-over-year increase of 90.1%, accounting for over half of public cloud revenue for the first time, reaching 50.1%. Notably, our token services delivered exceptionally strong growth, with April 2026 revenue skyrocketing to 53 times that of January. Third, ecosystem cooperation continued to strengthen. This quarter, revenue from Xiaomi and Kingsoft ecosystem reached RMB 838 million, a year-over-year increase of 68.9%, accounting for 31.0% of total revenue. As Xiaomi reinforces its investment in the human-car-home smart ecosystem and AI advancements, it brings forth more business opportunities for us. We plan to revise the annual caps for the continuing connected transactions with Xiaomi.

[Translator]

Following the adjustments, the revised annual caps with Xiaomi and Kingsoft for the continuing connected transactions under the three-year framework from 2025 to 2027 will reach RMB 14.2 billion.

[Tao Zou, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Kingsoft Cloud]

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[Translator]

Now let me walk you through our business highlights for the first quarter of 2026. In terms of public cloud services, revenue reached RMB 2.0 billion this quarter, representing a year-over-year increase of 47.5%. First, we continued to closely align with the large-scale and highly visible cloud computing demand within the Xiaomi and Kingsoft ecosystem. With a long-term and global strategic perspective, we are carefully planning and continuously refining our offerings to build products and solutions with sustainable competitive advantages. Second, we earned broad recognition from customers outside the ecosystem, leveraging our solid product and technology capabilities, extensive project experience, and strong market reputation. We rapidly expanded both our customer coverage and the depth of business cooperation. This quarter, revenue from our top five non-ecosystem customers increased by 66% year-over-year, maintaining strong growth momentum.

[Translator]

We provided AI cloud services to a leading autonomous driving unicorn, enabling rapid deployment and responsive operations. This supported large-scale data processing and efficient end-to-end neural network training iterations, helping the customer capture early market opportunities. Through our StarFlow training and inference platform, with best-in-class resource scheduling, elastic scalability, and model deployment capabilities, we effectively supported the token demand of many top-tier internet companies, capturing the surge in inference-driven demand. Third, we achieved a meaningful optimization of our customer mix. As inference applications continue to scale, our AI business now spans a wide range of industries, including internet, AI companies, autonomous driving, logistics, fintech, gaming, and video streaming, resulting in a more balanced customer mix. This quarter, we deeply empowered a leading AI plus finance customer, ensuring its rapid business growth and stable platform operations.

[Translator]

We also supported a top logistics technology company in executing large-scale co-development projects, enabling its engineering teams through flexible multi-model utilization and significantly improving R&D efficiency and innovation capability. This diversified customer mix and business portfolio not only drive revenue growth, but also enable us to schedule computing resources more flexibly in off-peak periods, improve resource utilization, and enhance profitability. [Foreign language]. In terms of enterprise cloud services, revenue reached RMB 710 million this quarter, representing a year-over-year increase of 14.7%. In the public services sector, we launched the State-Owned Cloud platform in Shenzhen, focusing on the core needs of state-owned enterprises for high security, strong compliance, and strict data confidentiality, and fully enabling the digital and intelligent upgrade of office, business, and management use cases.

[Translator]

Leveraging Kingsoft Cloud's technology foundation, we adopted an integrated architecture that is provincial platform plus multi-prefecture and county platforms to build a supply chain public information platform in Hubei, enabling resources efficiency, data interoperability, and business collaboration, and have now supported the scaled migration of multiple municipal and county level platforms to the cloud. We also partnered with a leading domestic chip manufacturer to build a full stack intelligent computing service system spanning from underlying chips to upper layer applications, advancing the large scale commercial deployment of domestically developed intelligent computing cloud solutions and meeting the demand for high security and highly controllable computing capabilities. In the digital healthcare sector, we collaborated with Union Hospital affiliated with Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, one of the top-ranked hospitals in China on the Data Governance Project.

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Through a systematic data management framework, we helped the hospital transition from fragmented management to standardized governance, setting a benchmark for the intelligent transformation of large medical institutions. We also signed a contract for a large-scale medical consortium platform project. Based on the Data Middle Platform, this project highlights our end-to-end professional capabilities in planning, designing, construction, and operation within the medical consortium space, laying the foundation for large-scale replication and rollout across healthcare institutions. In the enterprise services sector, we delivered a green energy operational platform for a leading clean energy service provider, enabling effective intensive management of large heavy-duty truck fleets. We further extended into the broader green and low-carbon industrial chain, exploring digital solutions for solid waste management and driving large-scale business deployment.

[Translator]

[Foreign language]. In terms of product and technology, we continue to stay committed to a technology-driven approach closely aligned with AI cloud demands and have comprehensively upgraded our products and services. During the quarter, in response to increasingly diverse model requirements, our StarFlow platform significantly expanded its model ecosystem. We added new API services for speech recognition and speech synthesis, expanded image and video generation models, and delivered a more refined user management experience. To address growing demand for AI agents, we launched Agent Engine, enabling customers to efficiently develop, deploy, and manage agents. We also introduced one-click agent deployment on our cloud hosts, supporting mainstream agent applications such as OpenClaw and Hermes, achieving deployment within five minutes and significantly lowering the barrier to adoption. For AI training and inference use cases, KS3 cache accelerator now delivers stable millisecond-level low latency, balancing performance and cost efficiency.

[Translator]

To meet the rising demand for private deployment of AI across industries, our Galaxy Stack platform reached a key milestone, adding StarFlow and security modules and completing a full stack closed-loop private deployment solution for AI cloud, covering cloud infrastructure, integrated training and inference, token services, and security guardrails. [Foreign language]. Overall, in this wave of AI innovation, from text generation to multi-modal capabilities, from training to inference, from chatting to real-world task execution, and from agents to tools, the pace of innovation and deepening applications continues to reinforce our conviction that AI will fundamentally reshape industries across the board.

[Translator]

Kingsoft Cloud will continue to uphold its strategy of high quality and sustainable development, increase investment, deepen its focus on core products and solutions, and continuously enhance profitability, creating greater long-term value for customers, shareholders, employees, and society. Next, I will hand over to our CFO, Ms. Li Yi, who will walk you through our first quarter financial results. Thank you.

[Yi Li, CFO at Kingsoft Cloud]

Thank you, Tao Zou and class, and thank you all for joining the call today. I will now discuss the first quarter financial results using RMB as currency. Before we walk through the details of financial results for the first quarter, I would like to highlight the following aspects. First, our revenue has been consecutively achieved year-over-year growth for eight quarters, reaching RMB 2,704 million this quarter. For the first time, our AI business became the majority revenue driver, contributing over 50% of our public cloud services revenue and marking a pivotal structural shift in our growth mix. This quarter, our AI business revenue increased 91% year-over-year, amounting to RMB 998 million. Second, our adjusted gross profit was RMB 351 million, increased by 7% year-over-year, despite all our supply chain challenges.

[Yi Li, CFO at Kingsoft Cloud]

Our adjusted EBITDA margin was 28%, increased by 11 percentage points year-over-year, thanks to our AI revenue growth. Third, in light of strong demand across diverse sectors, we remain steadfast in investing in our infrastructure. Our capital expenditures and leased assets obtained in combination grew 38% year-over-year to RMB 3 billion this quarter. We expect to continue to invest to facilitate further business expansion throughout the year. Now I will walk you through our financial results for the first quarter of 2026. This quarter, total revenues were RMB 2,704 million. Of this, revenues from public cloud services were RMB 1,996 million, up 46% from RMB 1,353 million in the same quarter last year. Revenues from enterprise premium services reached RMB 707 million, up 50% from RMB 616 million in the same quarter last year.

[Yi Li, CFO at Kingsoft Cloud]

Total cost of revenues was RMB 2,358 million, up 43% year-over-year, which was mainly due to our investment into AI computing resources. IT cost increased by 26% year-over-year from RMB 723 million to RMB 911 million this quarter. The increase was mainly due to increase of rack services, which served the expanding AI business. Depreciation and amortization costs increased from RMB 379 million in the same quarter of 2025 to RMB 890 million this quarter. The increase was mainly due to the depreciation of newly acquired and leased servers and network equipment, which were mainly related to AI business. Solution development and services costs increased by 40% year-over-year from RMB 505 million in the same quarter of 2025 to RMB 575 million this quarter. The increase was mainly due to the solution personnel expansion of Camelot. Financing cost and other cost was RMB 251 million this quarter.

[Yi Li, CFO at Kingsoft Cloud]

Our adjusted gross profit for the quarter was RMB 351 million, increased by 7% year-over-year, and decreased by 24% quarter-over-quarter. Adjusted gross margin decreased from 70% last quarter to 30% this quarter. The decrease was mainly due to the higher cost of server along with expansion of our AI business, as well as upfront cost incurred for future revenue-generating activities with certain customers. On the expense side, excluding share-based compensation expenses, our total adjusted operating expenses were RMB 455 million, remaining stable compared with the same quarter last year and last quarter, of which our adjusted R&D expenses were RMB 184 million, decreased by 8% from the same quarter last year. Adjusted selling and marketing expenses were RMB 112 million, increased by 4% year-over-year. Adjusted general and administrative expenses were RMB 151 million, increased by 34% year-over-year.

[Yi Li, CFO at Kingsoft Cloud]

Our adjusted operating loss was RMB 60 million, increased by 7% from adjusted operating loss of RMB 56 million in the same period last year. The improvement was mainly due to the expansion of revenue scale. Adjusted operating loss margin decreased from 3% in the same period last year to 2% this quarter, representing a decrease of 0.6 percentage points. Our non-GAAP EBITDA profit was RMB 748 million, increased by 135% from RMB 390 million in the same quarter last year. Our non-GAAP EBITDA margin achieved 28%, compared with 16% in the same quarter last year. It was mainly due to our strong commitment to AI cloud computing development and strategic adjustment of business structure. This quarter, our capital expenditures, including those financed by third parties and right of use assets obtained in exchange for financially settled leases, were RMB 2,985 million.

[Yi Li, CFO at Kingsoft Cloud]

Looking ahead, we aim to capitalize on the explosive growth in demand by further investing in infrastructure, enhancing service stability, managing liquidity risk, and improving operating efficiency. We remain focused on AI-driven strategies, providing customers with high-value-added cloud services. That's all for the introduction of our operational and financial results. Thank you all.

[Wayne Wang, Investor Relations at Kingsoft Cloud]

This concludes our prepared remarks. Thank you for your attention. We are now happy to take your questions. Please ask your questions in both Mandarin and English if possible. Operator, please go ahead.

[Operator]

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. If you wish to ask a question, please press star one, one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star one, one again. We will take our first question, and the question comes from Liping Zhao from CICC. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

[Liping Zhao, VP at CICC]

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[Translator]

Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on another strong quarter. I have two questions. The first one is relating to your StarFlow MaaS platform. Mr. Zou mentioned that the revenue of the MaaS platform increased 53 times from January to April. Could you share the current revenue scale and margin levels? What's management's outlook on this business? The second question is about the AI pricing. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2025, have there been increases in the average pricing for the newly signed public cloud contracts in the first quarter and second quarter of this year? If so, by how much? Thank you.

[Tao Liu, SVP at Kingsoft Cloud]

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[Translator]

Okay, quickly translation. Our token business actually started off at a relatively small base, let's say end of last year and beginning of this year. However, traditionally we have already maintained a very strong customer base of very large scale leading customers. At the beginning of this year, we're starting to meet huge demands coming from such customers in light of the surge of agent demand, the surge of AI coding demand in such use cases. Obviously the demand was huge and very strong. In a way our business was restricted by the underlying resources that is available to us. I would say that obviously we are optimistic about the growth of this business.

[Translator]

However, due to that uncertainty we just mentioned, we would like to, let's say, see a couple more quarters before disclosing more details to the market of how that business grows. Secondly, in terms of margin levels, I would say that the margin levels for this token business, inference business in general is higher than traditional cloud computing business. We do see a lot of improvements in margin from certain perspective, for example, coming from technology advancement, coming from the optimization of algorithms, coming from optimizing that algorithms with the relevant models, and also optimization and improvement coming from operating models. I would say we are cautiously optimistic about the margin. Again, due to still currently in a quickly expanding phase, it's not in a static phase, we will not at this stage, talk more about the specific margin numbers. Thank you.

[Tao Zou, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Kingsoft Cloud]

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[Kaiyan Tian, SVP at Kingsoft Cloud]

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[Translator]

In relation to the second question about the selling and purchasing price in relation to our business. Yes, as widely recognized, the demand for our cloud computing services has been surging tremendously. Is the pricing from our upstream, which includes from components to holistic servers to other raw materials. The current consensus of the market, including our customers, is that the price hiking, the price surge trend will actually continue on, not only already happened in Q1, but also will continue in Q2 and maybe some quarters to follow. They would believe that the current time point to secure more computing power is actually the right moment to do so. Because of that, the pass through of the price of the cost pressure coming from our upstream is actually doable and would not negatively affect our margin levels in this current market situation. Thank you.

[Liping Zhao, VP at CICC]

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[Operator]

Thank you. We will take our next question. Your next question comes from the line of Wenting Yu from CLSA. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

[Wenting Yu, Analyst at CLSA]

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[Translator]

The first question is regarding the gross margin in Q1. We noticed that the gross margin dropped a bit in Q1, and what are the main reasons? Has the positive effects of the product price increase been factored in already? The second question is, with the ongoing high demand for computing power, large model companies are adapting their resource allocation and forming partnerships beyond public cloud vendors to GPU rental companies and telcos. How does management think of cloud competitive position and advantages in this landscape? Thank you.

[Yi Li, CFO at Kingsoft Cloud]

Thank you for your question. For the first quarter of the margin, we can see a 3% percentage decrease. I think the first factor is the seasonal factor, because there is a 30% revenue come from the enterprises cloud. That is the first reason. The second one is the upfront cost incurred for future revenue generate activities with certain customers. For the coming quarters, we expect the gross margin will recover to normal level. Thank you.

[Kaiyan Tian, SVP at Kingsoft Cloud]

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[Tao Zou, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Kingsoft Cloud]

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[Translator]

This is a very interesting question. It is a very good question. In fact, we observe a relatively interesting change in market landscape starting the second half of 2025. That is some of the used to be competitors are actually becoming cooperation partners in this wake of strong AI demand. What you mentioned in your question, it also exemplifies the close cooperation between private enterprises and state-owned enterprises. We think that this demonstrates a couple of things. Number one, this is fundamentally a complementary capabilities from, or I would say, complementary institutions coming from different backgrounds of enterprises, which we have mentioned back in the general computing, CPU computing age. This is actually manifesting itself again in this new AI for intelligent cloud era.

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Secondly, we would think that this fundamentally reflects the strong discrepancy between, or the strong gap or the big gap between supply and demand in today's market. Everybody actually needs to come together and to overcome shortcomings that each one of us have to form holistic and overall solutions to serve the end customers. Again, your question is more from a competition perspective, but from our understanding and experience, we're actually seeing a more kind of cooperative perspective of the story. Everybody has its shortcomings and we work together to serve the needs of the end customers. Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. We will take our next question. Your next question comes from the line of Daley Li from Bank of America Securities. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

[Daley Li, VP and Analyst at Bank of America Securities]

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[Translator]

I have two questions here. First question about the demand outlook for the public cloud. The one key result is pretty strong. How do we see the demand trend in Q2 and the second half this year? Regarding the demand mix, how's the trend for inferencing and model training? My second question is about the contract term with our clients. As the upstream costs are in a rising trend, are we taking a shorter term contract, any change in terms of the contract terms? Thank you.

[Tao Liu, SVP at Kingsoft Cloud]

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[Translator]

In terms of AI demand, as we mentioned, it's exceedingly strong. Looking at the second quarter, we currently actually have a very long list of backlog, which is mainly subject to the supply chain restrictions. For the sectors that drive this growth, we're currently covering quite a few sectors, which we have all seen simultaneously having explosively strong demand. Starting from the internet, from large language model, AI labs, from autonomous driving, and from robotics. I would say that out of which the autonomous driving and robotics generally tend to have very strong model training requirements and demand. Particularly for robotics, and also autonomous driving, actually, they have also a lot of data processing or data treatment requirements, demands for the training of their models.

[Translator]

For the inference side of the story, we have the internet companies and large language model companies coming from their demands for AI coding and agents, such use cases. This is the general overview of the demand side of things. Since you also mentioned about the contract period, we had relatively standard contract periods in the past, now in light of this new supply chain, the price surge, we currently have more flexible kind of contract period arrangements, which maximizes our profit and benefits. Thank you.

[Daley Li, VP and Analyst at Bank of America Securities]

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[Operator]

Thank you. We will take our final question. Your final question comes from the line of Timothy Zhao from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

[Timothy Zhao, Analyst at Goldman Sachs]

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[Translator]

My first question is regarding your revenue from Xiaomi and the Kingsoft Cloud and Kingsoft ecosystem. I noticed that the revenue growth accelerated compared to the fourth quarter of last year. Just wondering is there a way to show me after the MIMO large language model launch and especially MIMO V2.5, have you observed any specific change on the demand for Kingsoft Cloud resources and the breakdown between training and inferences? After you announced the revenue related party transaction revenue cap with Xiaomi for this year and next, just wondering how do you think about the utilization rate versus last year?

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My second question is regarding your CapEx and also lease assets. I noticed that the total amount spent was around RMB 3 billion in the first quarter. Just wondering if you can provide us an update on how you think about this total CapEx number for this year. Thank you.

[Tao Liu, SVP at Kingsoft Cloud]

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[Translator]

On the training side, the vast majority of those resource demands come from Kingsoft Cloud. We continue to see a growing demand in that respect. In inference demand, especially since the launch of MIMO V2, a lot of underlying resource has been reallocated to do the training for that, to do the inference for that model. In terms of the prediction for future growth of inference coming from MIMO, we are relatively optimistic. However, it's ultimately subject to the return on Xiaomi's side. Probably we don't have personal comment on that, but we generally remain optimistic about that.

[Yi Li, CFO at Kingsoft Cloud]

For CapEx in future, actually the AI era present huge opportunities for us. Fortunately, we launched our intelligent computing business back in 2023. We have well established our supply chain capabilities, and our supply network is in place now. As Mr. Tao Liu has mentioned, we have seen a certain demand from our strong customer demand. We have to admit, the supply chain capacity is the primary limiting factor for the capital spending for the 2026. We estimate that our best estimate to say for the 2026 is around RMB 15 billion-RMB 20 billion at this moment. Thank you.

[Timothy Zhao, Analyst at Goldman Sachs]

Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. This concludes today's question and answer session. I will now hand back for closing remarks.

[Wayne Wang, Investor Relations at Kingsoft Cloud]

Thank you, operator. Thank you everyone for joining us today. If you have any further questions, feel free to contact us. Looking forward to speaking with you again next quarter. Have a nice day.

[Operator]

This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Kaiyan Tian, SVP
• Tao Liu, SVP
• Tao Zou, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors
• Wayne Wang, Investor Relations
• Yi Li, CFO

Analysts

• Daley Li, VP and Analyst at Bank of America Securities
• Liping Zhao, VP at CICC
• Timothy Zhao, Analyst at Goldman Sachs
• Wenting Yu, Analyst at CLSA
• Translator