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Ant International completes approximately $1.2 billion Series A financing, with participation from Ant Group, Alibaba, and others

Ant International announced the completion of its Series A financing. Ant Group and several existing shareholders, including Alibaba, as well as multiple internationally renowned investment institutions participated in this round of financing. It is reported that the financing amount is approximately $1.2 billion, which will be used to expand global operations, accelerate investment in cutting-edge technologies such as AI, broaden inclusive fintech services like cross-border payments and global accounts, and help global merchants achieve growth.On March 19, 2024, Jing Xiandong announced that Ant International, OceanBase, and Ant Digital, all under Ant Group, have established their respective boards of directors and are independently facing the market. Currently, the chairman of Ant International is Jing Xiandong. Ant International's business covers major markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, connecting over 150 million global merchants and more than 2 billion consumer accounts, with innovation, settlement, and operation centers located in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. Currently, Ant International has four major business segments: Alipay+, Antom, WorldFirst, and Bettr, which focus on enhancing global payment connectivity, developing technology-driven merchant payment, treasury management, and fintech solutions, and building a broad cooperation network with domestic and foreign financial institutions, technology companies, and merchants.

Kingsoft Cloud accelerates GPU computing power construction, securing a budget of 10 billion from Xiaomi and a long-term contract worth billions from Alibaba

According to reports from Jiemian News, Kingsoft Cloud will accelerate the construction of GPU computing clusters in the second half of the year to meet the explosive growth in computing power demand from major clients. Among them, Xiaomi's demand for Kingsoft Cloud's GPU computing power has upgraded from a ten-thousand-card cluster, with the related budget significantly increasing from nearly 4 billion yuan to over 10 billion yuan. In addition, Alibaba's large model team has signed a 5-year computing power leasing contract with Kingsoft Cloud, involving more than 3,000 eight-card GPU servers. Based on the contracted price, the annualized revenue after full delivery will exceed 4 billion yuan.To meet the surging customer demand, Kingsoft Cloud's capital expenditure plan for 2026 has been raised to 15 billion yuan, with an annual revenue target of 12.5 billion to 13.5 billion yuan. It is reported that due to tight upstream supply, Kingsoft Cloud is currently only accepting long-term contracts from clients for 3 to 5 years, and some orders are facing delivery delays. Due to concerns about the risk of impairment of high-level card assets, Kingsoft Cloud is currently pausing aggressive hardware expansion, anticipating that the prices of computing hardware may reach a turning point for decline in the third quarter of this year.

SK Hynix's financing in the U.S. may exceed Alibaba's to become the largest in history, with ADR financing up to 29 billion dollars

South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix plans to raise up to 45 trillion won (approximately 29 billion USD) by issuing American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) in New York, with the related transaction set to start in July. If successful, this financing scale will surpass Alibaba's 25 billion USD IPO in 2014, becoming one of the largest overseas equity financing projects in the history of South Korean companies, and approaching historical records in the global capital market.According to the plan, SK Hynix will first issue shares in South Korea, then deposit the relevant shares into a South Korean securities depository as the underlying securities for the ADRs. South Korean regulators are expected to complete the review by July 3. The raised funds will primarily be used for the construction of the Yongin semiconductor cluster in South Korea and a factory in Indiana, USA, as well as the purchase of EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment to support the expansion of advanced storage capacity related to AI. Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America have been selected as the lead underwriters.SK Hynix's confidence in this U.S. financing stems from its strong position in the AI industry chain. As a leading company in the global high bandwidth memory (HBM) sector, the company is a core supplier of AI accelerator chips for NVIDIA. Driven by AI demand, its stock price has increased by over 300% this year. CEO Lee Seok-hee stated that the company hopes to leverage the U.S. capital market to enhance its global influence and achieve a valuation level comparable to other AI hardware companies.
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