In 2025H1, AI large model application and delivery business achieves explosive growth with revenue and order amount up 76 times and 78 times yoy respectively, demonstrating strong market demand

Future prospects in 2025H2:

• The results for 2025H2 is expected to improve significantly compared to the 2025H1, and the Group is determined to achieve its full-year targets.

• The annual performance is expected to remain stable. In 2025H2, the three core growth engines are projected to achieve accelerated growth, while the revenue decline in the ICT support business is anticipated to narrow significantly. Profit for the year is expected to exceed that of the previous year (excluding the impact of one-off severance compensation due to personnel restructuring optimisation).

• The Group will adhere to a steady and progressive development strategy, continue to consolidate the foundation of its core telecommunications business to promote a steady recovery of its fundamental operations in ICT support business, and continue to focus on cultivating three core growth engines, including AI large model application and delivery, 5G private network and application, and digital intelligence-driven operation. The Group will also accelerate the pace of signing contracts, to maintain a stable and healthy annual performance.

• The Board has attached great importance to the shareholders' interests and returns, and after giving due consideration to the Group's business development, profitability, and cash flow level, the Board has recommended the guideline of the final dividend for the year 2025 is 40% of the annual net profit attributable to shareholders.

Results highlights & business review:

• In 2025H1, the Group's overall revenue and profit declined due to the effects brought by the ongoing cost-reduction and efficiency-enhancement within the telecommunications sector. The Group managed to effectively control costs through its mature cost control mechanism and optimised personnel restructuring optimisation.

• AI large model application and delivery business achieved explosive growth, with revenue of approximately RMB 26 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 76 times; the order amount for 2025H1 was approximately RMB 70 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 78 times, demonstrating strong market demand.

• Through collaborations with Alibaba Cloud, Baidu Intelligent Cloud, NVIDIA, AsiaInfo Security and others, the Group has constructed end-to-end industrial large model solutions.
• Revenue from the 5G private network and application business was approximately RMB47 million; the order amount for 2025H1 was approximately RMB82 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 51.7%, which reflects growth potential in the market.

• Revenue from the ICT support business was approximately RMB2,118 million, representing a year-on-year decrease of 14.7%. Revenue from the digital intelligence-driven operation business was approximately RMB408 million, representing a year-on-year decrease of 8.8% which was mainly driven by cost reductions from operators, but with continued growth in the non-telecommunications industry.

HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 5 August 2025 - AsiaInfo Technologies Limited ("AsiaInfo Technologies" or the "Company", which together with its subsidiaries, is referred to as the "Group"; HKEX stock code: 01675), is pleased to announce its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2025 (the "Period"). In the first half of 2025 ("2025H1"), the Group's current overall operating scale is under pressure due to the ongoing cost-reduction and efficiency-enhancement in the telecommunications sector. Revenue was approximately RMB2,598 million, representing a decrease of 13.2% year-on-year. However, amid the wave of new AI technologies, the Group's AI large model application and delivery business has achieved explosive growth, while the 5G private network and application business has continued to gain momentum, and it has kept optimising the business structure of digital intelligence-driven operation. Meanwhile, the Group has strengthened internal cost management to support sustainable development, and its business fundamentals will continue to be sound in the long term. To cope with challenges of the ICT support business transformation, the Group implemented a series...