Overview
- A China Academy of Information and Communications Technology‑led forum will convene in Beijing to launch a ‘high‑quality Token service’ initiative and form a special research group to set standards and build industry capacity for token‑based model services.
- Industry reports place daily token calls in the trillions and show rapid growth, with one widely cited figure of about 140 trillion tokens per day by March 2026 that highlights pressure for common measurement and billing rules.
- China Mobile and China Telecom began selling consumer token packages in May, offering prepaid monthly token plans as an early path to monetize model access for individual and household users.
- Shenzhen teams reported completing full‑parameter training of a 1.6‑trillion‑parameter model on Huawei Ascend 910C clusters and said key training metrics met industrial standards, signaling stronger onshore compute for large‑model work.
- Major firms are shifting AI from lab to product: Tencent says much internal code is now AI‑generated, Huawei Cloud stresses productivity over raw token counts, Qualcomm announced a car‑end 'Claw' AI plan for in‑vehicle models, and chipmakers TSMC and Intel reiterated roadmaps to support growing AI demand.