SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Xiao-I Corporation (“Xiao-I” or the “Company”), a leading cognitive artificial intelligence (“AI”) enterprise in China, today reported its unaudited financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
First Half 2023 Financial Highlights
- Net revenues increased 106% year over year to a record high of US$26.5 million.
- Sale of cloud platform products increased 523% year over year to US$22.7 million.
- Gross profit increased 124% year over year to US$20.5 million.
- Gross margin was 77.3%, up 620 basis points year over year.
Mr. Hui Yuan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Xiao-I, commented, “Amidst our industry’s dynamic and ever-evolving landscape, we remained steadfast in our dedication to innovation and growth. Our results speak volumes, as we achieved an outstanding 106% increase in net revenues during the first half of this year, reaching a record-breaking $26.5 million. This remarkable performance underscores the value of our continuous investments in cutting-edge AI technology that are effectively aligned with the growing digital transformation demands of various businesses.”
“Our commitment to innovation is exemplified by our unparalleled R&D investment in the first half of 2023, which surpasses our entire investment for the previous year. More importantly, we have significantly expanded our product and service portfolio with the introduction of our distinguished large language model, Hua Zang. This innovative offering is expected to be seamlessly applied across a wide array of industries swiftly with cost-efficiency, opening up new horizons for our clients. In addition to our product innovations, we have also made substantial strides in our global expansion. This includes the establishment of a U.S. subsidiary and active participation in a local exhibition. These concerted efforts place us in a good position to lead the global AI industry into a future full of immense opportunities and transformative solutions to drive our continued growth.”
Recent Developments and Strategic Highlights:
- Secured Contract for AI Contact Center Project with Leading Chinese Aviation Group: In June 2023, Xiao-I secured a contract for an intelligent contact center project with a leading Chinese aviation group. This partnership aims to enhance the aviation group’s service provision capabilities and drive its digital transformation.
- Introduced Pioneering Hua Zang Generative AI Model: In June 2023, Xiao-I launched Hua Zang, its advanced large language model. The model, analogous to an operating system, is built on Xiao-I’s robust platform capabilities and designed to empower various industries.
- Establishment of U.S. Subsidiary as Part of Going Global Strategy: In June 2023, Xiao-I established an U.S. subsidiary, Xiao-I Plus Inc., marking another significant milestone for its global expansion strategy.
- Launched IDP Solution for Future-Ready Enterprise Document Management: In May 2023, Xiao-I launched its state-of-the-art Intelligent Document Processing (“IDP”) product. This innovative solution is delivered by a smart and efficient platform that streamlines and automates the document management process, empowering businesses towards an era of intelligent operations.
- Recognition as Outstanding Supplier by China Merchants Bank Credit Card Center: In May 2023, Xiao-I announced that the Credit Card Center of China Merchants Bank Co. recognized it as an outstanding supplier. This prestigious acknowledgement follows the Bank’s annual supplier assessment evaluation for 2022, during which Xiao-I demonstrated exemplary performance in business collaboration, product implementation, and service quality.
First Half 2023 Financial Results
Net Revenues
Net revenues were US$26.5 million for the first half of 2023, up 106% year over year from US$12.9 million for the same period of 2022. The increase was primarily due to the increased sales of cloud platform products and hardware products.
| By Revenue Type | 1H 2023 | 1H 2022 | % Change YoY | |||||||||
| Sale of cloud platform products | $ | 22,719,659 | $ | 3,648,339 | 523 | |||||||
| Technology development service | 1,763,797 | 6,296,844 | (72 | ) | ||||||||
| Sale of software products | 535,004 | 1,397,996 | (62 | ) | ||||||||
| Maintenance & support service | 1,426,784 | 1,497,871 | (5 | ) | ||||||||
| Sale of hardware products | 30,175 | 18,431 | 64 | |||||||||
| Total | $ | 26,475,419 | $ | 12,859,481 | 106 | |||||||
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues was US$6.0 million for the first half of 2023, up 61% year over year from US$3.7 million for the same period of 2022. With a smaller increase compared to net revenues, cost efficiency has improved due to economies of scale.
Gross Profit
Gross profit was US$20.5 million for the first half of 2023, representing an increase of 124% year over year from US$9.1 million for the same period of 2022. Gross margin was 77.3% for the first half of 2023, up 620 basis points from 71.1% for the same period of 2022. The increase in gross margin was mainly due to a shift in product mix towards subscription for cloud platform products from one-time software sales.
Operating Expenses
Total operating expenses were US$34.1 million in the first half of 2023, representing an increase of 355% year over year from US$7.5 million for the same period of 2022. While the selling, general and administrative expenses demonstrated improved efficiency with larger business scales, they couldn’t offset the increase in research and development expenses, which grew by 708% year over year, which was primarily driven by the significantly increase of professional service fee, including the purchase of supercomputing service fees, data services, intelligent computing technology services and software outsourcing, etc. mainly from four third parties for the requirement of big data model development project and other cloud platform products. In November 2022, OpenAI launched the ChatGPT, which opened up a new situation of artificial intelligence. Under such background, the Company increased investment in AI+ Industrial Internet research and development, including the research and procurement of intelligent collaborative platform, digital twin platform, data intelligence platform, industrial enterprise services and research and judgment platform and other platform products.
Income (Loss) from Operations
Loss from operations was US$13.6 million for the first half of 2023, compared to an income of US$1.6 million from operations for the same period of 2022.
Total Other Loss
Total other loss was US$1.3 million for the first half of 2023, generally on par with the same period of 2022.
Net Income (Loss)
Net loss was US$18.8 million for the first half of 2023, compared to a net income of US$0.6 million for the same period of 2022.
Significant related party transactions
In early 2022, we invested in Zhizhen Guorui (Shanghai) Information Technology Development Co., Ltd. (“Zhizhen Guorui”) at a total consideration of $2.9 million, acquiring less than 51% of its equity interest with significant influence, which was accounted as long-term investment. For the purpose of Zhizhen Guorui’s operation use, on March 31, 2023, Shanghai Xiao-i Robot Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Xiao-i Robot”) entered into agreement to provide credit line to Zhizhen Guorui of US$13.8 million (RMB100.0 million) with interest free.
As of June 30, 2023, the loan provided to Zhizhen Guorui by Shanghai Xiao-i Robot was US$11.0 million (RMB79.9 million).
About Xiao-I Corporation
Xiao-I Corporation is a leading cognitive intelligence enterprise in China that offers a diverse range of business solutions and services in artificial intelligence, covering natural language processing, voice and image recognition, machine learning and affective computing. Since its inception in 2001, the Company has developed an extensive portfolio of cognitive intelligence technologies that are highly suitable and have been applied to a wide variety of business cases. Xiao-I powers its cognitive intelligence products and services with its cutting-edge, proprietary AI technologies to enable and promote industrial digitization, intelligent upgrading, and transformation.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this announcement are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on the Company’s current expectations and projections about future events that the Company believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Investors can identify these forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as “approximates,” “assesses,” “believes,” “hopes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “projects,” “intends,” “plans,” “will,” “would,” “should,” “could,” “may” or similar expressions. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results and encourages investors to review other factors that may affect its future results in the Company’s registration statement and other filings with the SEC.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
Ms. Berry Xia
Phone: +86 186 8158 5169
Email: ir@xiaoi.com
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| CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS | ||||||||
| (In U.S. dollars, except for share and per share data, or otherwise noted) | ||||||||
| As of | ||||||||
| December 31, 2022 | June 30, 2023 | |||||||
| (Unaudited) | ||||||||
| Assets | ||||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 1,026,245 | $ | 4,746,836 | ||||
| Accounts receivable, net | 41,362,705 | 16,025,831 | ||||||
| Amounts due from related parties | 346,517 | - | ||||||
| Inventories | 768,216 | 701,119 | ||||||
| Contract costs | 2,012,309 | 1,936,073 | ||||||
| Advance to suppliers | 1,115,672 | 1,586,618 | ||||||
| Deferred offering costs | 1,330,902 | - | ||||||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets, net | 460,854 | 6,656,705 | ||||||
| Total current assets | 48,423,420 | 31,653,182 | ||||||
| Non-current assets: | ||||||||
| Property and equipment, net | 219,470 | 313,953 | ||||||
| Intangible assets, net | 637,114 | 557,995 | ||||||
| Long-term investment | 2,852,492 | 3,187,416 | ||||||
| Right of use assets | 865,399 | 969,400 | ||||||
| Deferred tax assets, net | 3,888,574 | - | ||||||
| Prepaid expenses and other, non-current assets | 3,697,675 | 3,616,218 | ||||||
| Amount due from related parties-non current | - | 11,018,714 | ||||||
| Total non-current assets | 12,160,724 | 19,663,696 | ||||||
| TOTAL ASSETS | $ | 60,584,144 | $ | 51,316,878 | ||||
| Commitments and Contingencies | ||||||||
| Liabilities | ||||||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||||||
| Short-term borrowings | $ | 18,784,459 | $ | 16,548,757 | ||||
| Accounts payable | 9,180,532 | 7,222,235 | ||||||
| Amount due to related parties-current | 896,431 | 742,714 | ||||||
| Deferred revenue | 2,553,808 | 3,444,636 | ||||||
| Convertible loans | 3,754,269 | - | ||||||
| Accrued expenses and other current liabilities | 17,006,713 | 9,214,618 | ||||||
| Lease liabilities, current | 435,462 | 458,018 | ||||||
| Total current liabilities | 52,611,674 | 37,630,978 | ||||||
| Non-current liabilities: | ||||||||
| Amount due to related parties-non current | 8,581,743 | 7,573,563 | ||||||
| Accrued liabilities, non-current | 8,073,912 | 5,194,843 | ||||||
| Lease liabilities, non-current | 300,974 | 392,436 | ||||||
| Total non-current liabilities | 16,956,629 | 13,160,842 | ||||||
| TOTAL LIABILITIES | 69,568,303 | 50,791,820 | ||||||
| Shareholders’ (deficit)/equity | ||||||||
| Ordinary shares (par value of $0.00005 per share; 1,000,000,000 shares authorized as of December 31, 2022 and June 30, 2023, respectively; 22,115,592 and 24,015,592 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31,2022 and June 30, 2023, respectively) | $ | 1,106 | $ | 1,201 | ||||
| Additional paid-in capital | 75,621,294 | 108,762,797 | ||||||
| Statutory reserve | 237,486 | 237,486 | ||||||
| Accumulated deficit | (78,483,156 | ) | (102,449,177 | ) | ||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (3,262,666 | ) | (2,852,695 | ) | ||||
| XIAO-I CORPORATION shareholders’ (deficit)/equity | (5,885,936 | ) | 3,699,612 | |||||
| Non-controlling interests | (3,098,223 | ) | (3,174,554 | ) | ||||
| Total shareholders’ (deficit)/equity | (8,984,159 | ) | 525,058 | |||||
| TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ (DEFICIT)/EQUITY | $ | 60,584,144 | $ | 51,316,878 | ||||
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| UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME/(LOSS) | ||||||||
| (In U.S. dollars, except for share and per share data, or otherwise noted) | ||||||||
| For the six months ended June 30, | ||||||||
| 2022 | 2023 | |||||||
| Sale of software products | $ | 1,397,996 | $ | 535,004 | ||||
| Sale of hardware products | 18,431 | 30,175 | ||||||
| Technology development service | 6,296,844 | 1,763,797 | ||||||
| M&S service | 1,497,871 | 1,426,784 | ||||||
| Sale of cloud platform products | 3,648,339 | 22,719,659 | ||||||
| Net revenues | 12,859,481 | 26,475,419 | ||||||
| Cost of sale of software products | (170,377 | ) | (368,021 | ) | ||||
| Cost of sale of hardware products | (12,545 | ) | (26,118 | ) | ||||
| Cost of technology development service | (2,661,707 | ) | (1,286,290 | ) | ||||
| Cost of M&S service | (339,213 | ) | (805,948 | ) | ||||
| Cost of sale of cloud platform products | (536,863 | ) | (3,519,521 | ) | ||||
| Cost of revenues | (3,720,705 | ) | (6,005,898 | ) | ||||
| Gross profit | 9,138,776 | 20,469,521 | ||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||
| Selling expenses | (2,094,124 | ) | (2,377,409 | ) | ||||
| General and administrative expenses | (1,725,928 | ) | (2,070,052 | ) | ||||
| Research and development expenses | (3,669,196 | ) | (29,649,703 | ) | ||||
| Total operating expenses | (7,489,248 | ) | (34,097,164 | ) | ||||
| Income/(Loss) from operations | 1,649,528 | (13,627,643 | ) | |||||
| Other loss: | ||||||||
| Investment losses | (121,618 | ) | (225,351 | ) | ||||
| Interest expenses | (1,202,391 | ) | (1,570,847 | ) | ||||
| Other income, net | 44,160 | 525,431 | ||||||
| Total other loss | (1,279,849 | ) | (1,270,767 | ) | ||||
| Income/(Loss) before income tax expense | 369,679 | (14,898,410 | ) | |||||
| Income tax benefits/(expenses) | 220,820 | (3,871,118 | ) | |||||
| Net income/(loss) | $ | 590,499 | $ | (18,769,528 | ) | |||
| Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests | (2,674 | ) | (173,782 | ) | ||||
| Net income/(loss) attributable to XIAO-I CORPORATION shareholders | 593,173 | (18,595,746 | ) | |||||
| Other comprehensive income/(loss) | ||||||||
| Foreign currency translation change, net of nil income taxes | 145,129 | 507,422 | ||||||
| Total other comprehensive income | 145,129 | 507,422 | ||||||
| Total comprehensive income/(loss) | $ | 735,628 | $ | (18,262,106 | ) | |||
| Total comprehensive income/(loss) attributable to non-controlling interests | 124,849 | (76,331 | ) | |||||
| Total comprehensive income/(loss) attributable to XIAO-I CORPORATION shareholders | 610,779 | (18,185,775 | ) | |||||
| Earnings/(Loss) per ordinary share attributable to XIAO-I CORPORATION shareholders | ||||||||
| Basic | 0.03 | (0.80 | ) | |||||
| Diluted | 0.03 | (0.80 | ) | |||||
| Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding | ||||||||
| Basic | 22,115,592 | 23,308,370 | ||||||
| Diluted | 22,362,552 | 23,308,370 | ||||||
