Baidu's Q2 revenue of RMB 31.3 billion slightly missed expectations, with AI business accounting for over half; GPU cloud services surged by 283%.

On August 18, Baidu released its financial results for the second quarter of 2026. Total quarterly revenue reached RMB 31.3 billion, slightly below the market expectation of RMB 31.6 billion. Notably, AI-related revenue accounted for 50% of Baidu's core business, exceeding half for two consecutive quarters, indicating that AI is becoming a significant component of the company's revenue structure.

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BofA Securities: Baidu’s (09888.HK) advertising business is weakening; earnings forecasts and target price lowered to HK$137

In a research report, Bank of America Securities stated that Baidu’s (09888.HK) core business revenue fell 4% year-on-year in the second quarter, in line with market expectations. Adjusted operating profit declined 13% year-on-year to RMB 4 billion, beating consensus estimates by 5%, primarily driven by reduced operating expenses. Adjusted net profit for the period stood at RMB 2.7 billion, missing market expectations, likely due to lower investment income and foreign exchange losses. Revenue from AI cloud infrastructure grew 50% year-on-year, falling short of expectations and slowing from the 79% growth recorded in the first quarter; however, GPU cloud revenue growth accelerated to 283% year-on-year. Bank of America Securities noted that Baidu is actively expanding

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[IPO] Alibaba Reportedly Participates in Funding Round for AI Video Platform Shengshu Technology, Eyeing HK Listing Next Year to Raise Over $500 Million

Citing sources, Bloomberg reported that Shengshu Technology, an AI video platform backed by Alibaba-W (09988.HK), is considering listing in Hong Kong next year with plans to raise over USD 500 million. The company is currently working with CICC and CITIC Securities on its initial public offering (IPO). In April, Shengshu Technology announced it had raised RMB 2 billion in a funding round led by Alibaba, with early supporters including Qiming Venture Partners, Baidu-W (09888.HK), and a Beijing municipal government fund. Established in March 2023, Shengshu Technology is known for developing Vidu, China’s first fully self-developed AI video generation model.

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HK Stock Announcements Watch | Xiaomi Group reports Q2 revenue of approximately RMB 108.922 billion, up 9.9% quarter-on-quarter; continues to ramp up investment in core technology R&D

Baidu Group-SW released its second-quarter results, reporting a net profit attributable to Baidu of RMB 2.319 billion; intelligent cloud infrastructure maintained strong momentum. China Unicom announced its interim results, with profit attributable to shareholders totaling RMB 9.5 billion, a year-on-year decline of 34.6%, while operating cash flow hit a multi-year high.

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CITIC Securities: DPUs drive networking and storage management; both volume and price rise in the AI era

The DPU handles infrastructure tasks such as server networking and storage management, and is widely used in eight-GPU servers, super-node servers, high-performance general-purpose computing servers, and storage servers.

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