Summary of Kunlun Wanwei's Conference Call Company Overview - **Company**: Kunlun Wanwei - **Industry**: Technology and Advertising Key Financial Performance - **H1 2025 Revenue**: Total revenue increased by 20% year-on-year, with Q2 revenue growing by 52% to nearly 2 billion RMB, driven by overseas short video platform Java with annual revenue exceeding 240 million USD and monthly revenue surpassing 20 million USD, doubling from Q1 [3] - **Advertising Revenue**: Reached 1.4 billion RMB in H1 2025, a 61% increase year-on-year, primarily from Opera's advertising business [2][3] - **Search Revenue**: 690 million RMB in H1 2025, up 11% year-on-year [2][3] - **Q2 Gross Margin**: 71%, a slight increase quarter-on-quarter but down 7 percentage points year-on-year due to lower margins from third-party agency involvement in Opera's advertising [2][5] - **Q2 Loss**: Reduced to 87 million RMB from 770 million RMB in Q1 2025, significantly improved from a 200 million RMB loss in the same quarter last year [2][7] Business Segments - **Short Video Business**: Q2 monthly revenue reached 20 million USD, with projections for Q3 daily revenue exceeding 1 million USD and potential monthly revenue of 30 million USD [4][10] - **AI Business**: AI software revenue reached 65 million RMB, with significant growth expected from AI music and video products [3][8] - **Investment Performance**: Overall investment losses of approximately 300 to 400 million RMB in H1 2025, with a recovery in Q2 [11] AI Developments - **AI Initiatives**: Focus on chip development and large models, with expectations for chip tape-out within the year and updates to inference and music models [6][8] - **AI Music Product**: The release of version 7.5 of the AI music product Meiloka led to a threefold increase in revenue in July and August compared to Q2 [2][8] - **AI Video Product**: The Skyrails model upgrade is expected to enhance commercialization of video AI products [8] Future Outlook - **Annual Revenue Projections**: Expected to achieve 150 million USD in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by the end of 2025, translating to 12.5 million USD monthly [4][9] - **Market Potential**: The short video business has a conservative market potential of 20-30 billion USD, with optimistic estimates reaching 100 billion USD [10] - **Long-term Growth**: The company is positioned for significant profitability and growth, particularly in AI and short video segments, with a focus on reducing sales expense ratios as the short video platform scales [7][12] Additional Insights - **Sales Expenses**: Q2 sales expenses approached 1 billion RMB, a 98.8% increase year-on-year, primarily due to marketing and promotion costs associated with the rapid growth of the short video business [5] - **R&D Expenses**: Decreased by 9.97% year-on-year to 368 million RMB, attributed to reduced depreciation and amortization costs [5] - **Overall Business Structure**: Comprises original businesses (Opera search and advertising), emerging businesses (AI AGI and AIGC), and short video business, with a strong emphasis on AI investments expected to yield returns in 2025 and 2026 [12]