Rising use of AI agents has driven rapid growth in token consumption. Firms are deploying compute platforms to orchestrate multiple leading LLMs and compress token costs, while accelerating China-wide buildout of large-scale compute clusters. Industry participants say hyperscale clusters powered by China-made compute chips are the next key lever to cut costs. Over the next 3–5 years, photonic/optoelectronic chips and other frontier technologies could further reduce per-token compute costs by roughly 50% or more by lowering latency and power per operation.(金十数据)