Volcano Engine announced on the 2nd that the daily average Token call volume of its Doubao big model has exceeded 120 trillion in March this year, doubling in the past three months; Compared to its first launch in May 2024, it has grown by 1000 times. Token usage is a core indicator for measuring the development speed of artificial intelligence (AI), and its rapid growth reflects the speed of AI application landing in China. The number of enterprises with accumulated token usage exceeding one trillion on the Volcano Engine has increased from 100 at the end of last year to 140 now. Liu Liehong, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the National Data Administration, recently pointed out that the significant increase in daily token usage in China indicates that with the deepening of market-oriented allocation reform of data elements in China, a supply system for high-quality AI data is being formed. Since the end of January this year, some model companies have set a performance record of exceeding the total revenue of 2025 in 20 days. Behind these numbers, it marks the unprecedented speed at which AI technology is being applied on a large scale. Analysis suggests that Token, as the smallest unit of information processing in large models, has the characteristics of measurability, pricing, and trading. The MaaS (Model as a Service) model, which calls the Big Model API (Application Programming Interface) and conducts transactions based on tokens as the settlement unit, enables AI capabilities to be like water and electricity, with on-demand payment and on-demand use. A new business logic based on token billing is accelerating its evolution. Tan Dai, President of Volcano Engine, stated that the latest Dou Bao Big Model 2.0 series has achieved breakthroughs in core capabilities such as multimodal understanding and complex task execution, and has entered the world's top tier. He introduced that the recent rapid growth in the use of the Doubao big model is driven by the explosion of AI video creation and the accelerated popularization of AI intelligent agents. With the improvement of multimodal modeling capabilities, AI is penetrating into many fields such as content creation, enterprise services, education, finance, etc., becoming a tangible productivity and increasingly becoming a fundamental resource for the operation of an intelligent society, just like water, electricity, and the internet. Tan Dai introduced that taking the "Lobster" product ArkClaw launched by Volcano Engine as an example, since its release, ArkClaw has continued to iterate rapidly and can be paired with Feishu in seconds. It can also be conveniently configured on messaging channels such as WeChat, DingTalk, Weibo, etc; At the same time, upgrade the cloud storage function to provide efficient end-to-end collaborative storage space. On April 2nd, OpenClaw open-source project and Volcano Engine jointly announced that the ClawHub China mirror site, jointly built by both parties, has officially started operation, providing Chinese developers with a more user-friendly experience and promoting the prosperity of the global "lobster" ecosystem. (New Society)