Capital is madly chasing after it! "Token Factory" easily raised 1 billion yuan in just six months.

Recently, Beijing-based AI token production service provider Approaching.AI officially announced the completion of its Series A financing. Within six months, the company has raised over 1 billion yuan in total funding.

This round of financing was led by Henan Investment Group Huirong Fund, with continued oversubscription from existing shareholders including Zhenzhi Capital, Shangshi Capital, Xinglian Capital, Shanghai Guofang Innovation, Honghui Fund, Huakong Fund, and Hangzhou Fucheng.

Raising over 1 billion yuan in funding within six months and establishing a token factory with a daily output of trillions of tokens is just a microcosm of the global AI infrastructure transformation.

Looking at the global market, tokens have long since transformed from a unit of measurement for model text into a universally accepted "new currency" for the AI ​​industry. TaaS (Token as a Service) has become a unified track spanning the US, China, Southeast Asia, and Europe.

Global Token Consumption Growth Rate: 40-Fold Increase in 4 Years.

Qualcomm CEO publicly predicted at Computex Taipei 2026 that 31.7 billion tokens will be consumed every 10 seconds globally in 2026, and the consumption will reach 1.27 trillion in the same time window by 2030, with overall demand increasing by about 40 times.

Goldman Sachs estimates that global monthly token consumption will increase 24 times by 2030 compared to 2026, with enterprise AI agents operating 24/7 contributing over 60% of the new demand.

Data from the overseas aggregation platform OpenRouter provides even more concrete evidence: 1.62 trillion tokens were processed weekly in March 2025, surging to 16.9 trillion in March 2026, a more than tenfold increase in one year. Morgan Stanley statistics show that global weekly token usage increased from 6.4 trillion in the first quarter of 2026 to 22.7 trillion, a 250% increase in a single quarter.

Internal data from Google and Microsoft Cloud shows that both giants process over a quadrillion tokens per month, with Meta's internal R&D token consumption exceeding 60 trillion per month, and enterprise AI budgets continuously increasing due to token costs.

China's Token Consumption Growth Leads the World

According to statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics, the average daily token usage in China was only 100 billion yuan at the beginning of 2024, exceeding 100 trillion yuan by the end of 2025, and reaching 140 trillion yuan in March 2026, a 1400-fold increase in two years, far exceeding the growth rate of European and American markets.

Currently, China's weekly token usage has surpassed that of the United States for eleven consecutive weeks, accounting for more than 50% of global total consumption.

IDC predicts that total domestic token consumption will reach 40 trillion in 2026, and the overall demand for domestic inference tokens will increase 370 times from 2025 to 2030. Domestic heterogeneous computing power and regional token factories have become core directions for addressing industry shortcomings.

In terms of demand differentiation, the growth rate of global B-end enterprise token consumption is far higher than that of C-end. Institutions predict that by 2030, enterprise users will consume an average of 80 million tokens annually, while ordinary C-end users will only consume 12 million. Government and enterprise digitalization, industrial AI, code development, and multimodal generation are long-term stable sources of demand.

Global Industry Unified Transformation: From Selling Computing Power to Large-Scale Token Production

In the past, global AI infrastructure mainly relied on IaaS bare computing power leasing and MaaS model hosting. Now, the industry logic has completely shifted to TaaS standardized token delivery.

Leading overseas cloud vendors have completed their track shift: AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have all launched pay-as-you-go token services, with TaaS business revenues exceeding $10 billion annually and gross margins significantly higher than traditional computing power leasing businesses.

Many computing power startups in Europe, America, and Southeast Asia are emulating the domestic token factory model, building dedicated inference clusters to optimize KVCache and Prefill-Decode collaboration, addressing pain points such as high concurrency, low latency, and wasted computing power.

Domestically, companies like TrendForce, computing power industrial parks across the country, and the three major telecom operators have simultaneously established mass production factories, with converging technical approaches both domestically and internationally: through heterogeneous computing power pooling and GPU memory optimization, they have significantly improved the token output efficiency per unit of computing power. Some leading vendors have already achieved profitability in their mature businesses, proving that token factories have a globally replicable business model.

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Globally, the number of companies entering the TaaS, token factory, AI inference scheduling, and token billing platforms continues to surge.

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