2/11/2026

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Operator
Conference Operator

Good day and welcome to YoDAO's fourth quarter 2025 and full year earnings conference call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Jeffrey Wang, Investor Relations Director of YoDAO. Please go ahead.

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Jeffrey Wang
Investor Relations Director

Thank you, operator. Please note the discussion today will contain forward-looking statements related to the future performance of the company. which are intended to qualify for the safe harbor from viability as established by the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Such statements are not guarantees of the future performance and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, exceptions, and other factors. Some of these risks are beyond the company's control and could cause actual results to differ materially from those mentioned in today's press release and this discussion. A general discussion of the risk factors that could affect UDAO's business and financial results is included in certain company filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company does not undertake any obligation to update this forward-looking information, except as required by law. During today's call, management will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures for comparison purposes only. For the definitions of non-GAAP financial measures and recalculations of GAAP to non-GAAP financial results, please see the 2025 fourth quarter and full year financial results news release issued earlier today. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. A webcast replay of this conference call will also be available on UDOT's corporate website at ir.udot.com. Joining us today on the call from UDAS Senior Management are Dr. Feng Zhou, our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Lei Jin, our President, Mr. Peng Shu, our Senior VP, and Mr. Wayne Lee, our VP of Finance. I will now turn the call over to Dr. Zhou to review some of our recent highlights and strategic direction.

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Dr. Feng Zhou
Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Jeffrey, and thank you all for participating in today's call. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that all numbers are denominated in MMB, unless otherwise stated. In the fourth quarter, both net revenues and cash flow showed strong improvement. Net revenues reached RMB 1.6 billion, a 16.8% year-over-year increase. This growth was primarily driven by the learning services segment returning to a growth trajectory, combined with the sustained strong performance of our online marketing services. Net cash flow from operating activities for the quarter was RMB 184.2 million, up 16.4% year-over-year. Our operating profits for the fourth quarter was RMB 60.2 million, marking our sixth consecutive quarters of operating profitability, representing an increase of 113% quarter-over-quarter and a decrease of 28.5% year-over-year. For the full year 2025, our key financial performance demonstrated positive momentum across the board. Total net revenues for the year reached RMB 5.9 billion, an increase of 5% year over year. Operating profits grew to RMB 221.3 million, up 48.7% year over year. Notably, 2025 marked the first year we achieved full year net cash inflow from operating activities, totaling RMB 55.2 million. This compared with the net cash outflow of RMB 67.9 million in 2024. This milestone reflects continued improvements in our competitiveness in operating efficiency and fulfills the financial objectives we set at the beginning of the year. I will now walk through the performance of each business line during the fourth quarter. Starting with learning services, fourth quarter net revenues reached RMB $727.2 million, representing a 17.7% year-over-year increase. This performance reflects a clear return to growth following the successful completion of our strategic restructuring. Within the segment, Digital content services contributed RMB 436.1 million, up 12.2% year-over-year. Youdao Lingshi continued to perform well, with revenue surging over 40% year-over-year. Retention rates exceeded 75%, representing an improvement of approximately 5%. These results demonstrate meaningful progress in both scale and user satisfaction. Technological innovation remains central to our product competitiveness. During the quarter, Yodao Lingshi was recognized by CNR as the 2025 Industry Benchmark Education Group. This recognition affirms our leadership position and reflects our continued investment in education technology. Building on the successful launch of our Chinese AI essay grading feature, we plan to introduce an English AI essay grading tool in the near future. Powered by our proprietary large language model, Confucius, and aligned with rigorous examinations standards, this tool is designed to help students improve their writing proficiency and quality. Our programming course also delivers strong results. Continuous product upgrades drove a 50% year-over-year increase in gross billions for the fourth quarter, supported by retention rates above 75%. Importantly, student achievements remain a key measure of success. In 2025, hundreds of our students achieved top results in the NOIP and the CSPJ and S finals, validating the quality and effectiveness of our programming curriculum. Within the learning services segment, AI-driven subscription services delivered particularly strong performance. Fourth quarter sales exceeded RMB 100 million, representing an over 80% year-over-year increase. For the full year 2025, total sales approached RMB 400 million, a record high with annual growth exceeding 50%. This will reflect both the expansion of our product portfolio and sustained demand for high-quality AI-powered apps. We're driving this momentum through two primary avenues. First, we are expanding into new market segments through innovative applications. In 2035, we launched Dollar AI, an integrated AI-powered plagiarism detection and writing refinement application. In the fourth quarter, its sales doubled quarter-on-quarter. We have also recently entered into an official partnership with Turnitin, the global leader in academic and research integrity, which we expect to further accelerate adoption. Second, we continue to enhance our core applications. The AI simultaneous interpretation feature within U.DOT dictionary and U.DOT desktop translation achieved over 100% year-over-year sales growth in the fourth quarter. These innovations were recognized with multiple industry awards, including Qubit AI, Outstanding AI Product, and China AI Product of the Year. Turning to online marketing services, fourth quarter net revenues reached RMB $660.9 million, up 37.2% year-over-year. Growth was driven by increased demand from the NetEase Group, as well as overseas markets, supported by our continued investments in AI technology. This growth was broad-based across multiple verticals. In gaming, stronger collaboration with NetEase Group and expansion of third-party clients drove a 50% year-to-year increase in advertising revenue. At the same time, we are capitalizing on the AI boom Rapid advances in large language models have fueled marketing demands for many high-growth AI apps. By positioning ourselves early as a preferred marketing partner in this trend, we achieved significant gains in client acquisition, resulting in revenue growth of over 50% for the quarter. International performance was also strong. Overseas KOL revenues increased by more than 50% year-over-year in the fourth quarter. In 2025, we successfully executed campaigns in over 50 countries. Our global capabilities were recognized by TikTok for Business, which named the Yodah ads as its 2025 Influencer Agency Game Industry Pioneer List, TikTok for Business 25. Further reinforcing our leadership in global digital marketing, gross margin for the online marketing segment was 27.8% in the fourth quarter, representing a two percentage point sequential improvement despite a year-over-year decline. This reflects two deliberate strategic choices. First, we prioritize client acquisition with new clients accounting for approximately 30% of our advertisers this quarter. While margins are typically lower during onboarding, these partnerships provide a foundation for long-term value creation. Second, we're beginning to see margin expansion from technological upgrades. The launch of our second generation AI ad placement optimizer which integrates automated creative production has begun to improve both advertising efficiency and profitability. In the smart devices segment, fourth quarter net revenues were IMB 176.5 million, down 26.6% year-over-year. We continue to focus on improving this segment's overall operational health and made significant progress in 2025. Our flagship UDAH dictionary pen remained the top-selling product on JD.com and Tmall during the November 11 shopping festival for the sixth consecutive year. Meanwhile, we continued to enhance the UDAH tutoring pen launched earlier in 2025, adding features such as intelligent knowledge cards and upgraded AI pod video explanations. Since launch, the system has generated over 600,000 videos. User engagement has been encouraging with active users accessing tutoring features more than 10 times per day in the fourth quarter. In summary, 2025 has been a year of comprehensive progress driven by our AI native strategy. From the strong performance of our advertising business enabled by the AI app placement optimizer, To improve the user retention and engagement across our learning services, we have demonstrated that technological innovation translates directly into user value and commercial results. Our expanding portfolio of AI subscription and device products, including U.S. simultaneous interpretation, Scholar AI, and E-Dub, and the AI tutoring plan, have broadened our reach to new user segments. Financially, we maintain strong discipline, deliver the meaningful profitability growth in our first ever full year of net operating cash inflow. This milestone underscores the sustainability and the resilience of our business model. Looking ahead, we remain firmly committed to our AI native strategy with a clear focus on advancing our learning services and advertising businesses. We will continue developing high performance vertical large language models tailored to user needs while actively capturing emerging opportunities such as AI agents, which significantly expand the potential for application layer innovations and data-driven value creation. Through these efforts, we aim to deliver differentiated user experiences while driving long-term sustainable growth. We're not just participating in the AI transformation. We are building the foundation for sustained intelligent growth. With that, I will turn the call over to Supong for a more detailed discussion of our financial results. Thank you.

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Peng Shu
Senior Vice President

Thank you, Dr. Zhou, and hello, everyone. Today I will be presenting some financial highlights from the first quarter and the full year of 2025. We encourage you to read through our press release issued earlier today for further details. For the first quarter, total net revenue, RMB 1.6 billion, or US dollar, 223.7 million, representing a 16.8% increase from the same period of 2024. Net revenue from our running services, or RMB 727.2 million, or US dollar, 104 million, representing a 17.7% increase from the same period of 2024. This year-over-year increase was primarily driven by the strong sales performance of AI-driven subscription services compared with the same period of 2024. Net revenue from our smart devices were RMB 176.5 million, OUS dollar 25.2 million, down 26.6% from the same period of 2024, primarily due to the decline in demand of smart learning devices in the first quarter of 2025. Net revenue from our online marketing services were RMB $660.9 million, for U.S. dollar, $94.5 million, representing a 37.2% increase from RMB $481.7 million for the same period of 2024. This year-over-year growth increase was mainly attributable to the increased demand from the natives group and overseas markets, which was driven by our continuing investment in AI technology. For the first quarter, our total gross profit was RMB $705.4 million. For the US dollar, $100.9 million, representing a 10.1% increase from the first quarter of 2024. Gross margin for learning services was 62.5% for the first quarter of 2025, compared with 60% for the same period of 2024. Gross margin for smart devices was 38.1% for the first quarter of 2025, compared with 43.9% for the same period of 2024. Our smart rate for online marketing services was 27.8% for the first quarter of 2025, compared with 34.2% for the same period of 2024. For the first quarter, our total operating expense was RMB 645.2 million, or US dollar, 92.3 million, compared with RMB 556.6 million for the same period of last year. Looking at our expense in more detail, Sales and marketing expense for the first quarter of 2025 for RMB $437.1 million compared with RMB $381.8 million in the first quarter of 2024. Research and development expense for the first quarter of 2024 were RMB $142.6 million compared with RMB $120.7 million in the first quarter of 2024. Our operating income margin was 3.8% in the first quarter of 2025 compared with 6.3% for the same period of last year. For the first quarter of 2025, our net income attributable to ordinary shareholders was RMB 48.2 million, or US dollar 6.9 million, compared to RMB 83 million for the same period of last year. Non-GAAP net income attributable to ordinary shareholders for the first quarter was RMB 58.7 million, or US dollar 8.4 million, compared with RMB 91.8 million for the same period of last year. Basic and dilute net income per EDS attributable to ordinary shareholder for the first quarter of 2025, or RMB 0.41, or US dollar 0.06, and RMB 0.4, or US dollar 0.06, respectively. Non-GAAP basic and dilute net income per EDS, attributable to the ordinary shareholder for the first quarter, or RMB 0.5, or US dollar 0.07, and RMB 0.49, or US dollar 0.07, respectively. Our net cash provided by the operating activity for RMB 184.2 million, OUS dollar 26.3 million for the first quarter. Turning to our full-year results, our total revenue for 2025 increased by 5% to RMB 5.9 billion, OUS dollar 825 million. Net revenue for our learning services for 2025 is down by 4.2% year-over-year to RMB 2.6 billion, OUS dollar 376.2 million. Net revenue from our smart devices for 2025 down by 18.2% year-over-year to RMB $739.6 million, or $105.8 million. Net revenue from our online marketing services for 2025 were up 28.5% year-over-year to RMB $2.5 billion, or $363 million. Total gross profit for R&B 2.6 billion, all U.S. dollar, 374.2 million, compared with 2.7 billion in the 2094. Total operating expense for the 2095 decreased to R&B 2.4 billion, all U.S. dollar, 342.6 million, compared with R&B 2.6 billion in 2024. Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders for the 2095 for R&B, 7.3 million, OUS dollar 15.4 million. And the basic and dilute net income per EDS attributable to ordinary shareholders for 2025 were RMB 0.91, OUS dollar 0.13, and RMB 0.9, OUS dollar 0.13, respectively. For 2025, net cash provided by the operating activity was RMB 55.2 million, OUS dollar 7.9 million. Compared with net cash used in the operating activity, of the RMB $67.9 million in 2024. Looking at our balance sheet as of December 31, 2025, our contract liability, which mainly consists of the deferred revenue generated from our learning services, or RMB $847.7 million, or U.S. dollar $121.2 million, compared with RMB $961 million as of December 31, 2024. At the end of the period, our cash, cash recurrence, current and non-current restricted cash, and short-term investments totaled RMB $743.2 million. For US dollar, $106.3 million. This concludes our prepared remarks. Thank you for your attention. We would now like to open the call to our questions. Operator, please go ahead.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you very much. We will now begin with the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star and then one on your touchtone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. Our first question comes from Brian Kong with Citi. Please go ahead.

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Brian Kong
Analyst, Citi

Yes, thanks for taking my questions and congratulations on decent results. So, Can measurement share your thoughts on 2026 Outlook and across different business lines? Yes, thank you.

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Dr. Feng Zhou
Chief Executive Officer

Hello, Brian. Yeah, I will take the question. So our overall goal for 2026 is to continue serving our users and customers with more innovative and competitive products. while growing the business at a sustainable and healthy manner, as always. So a key foundation supporting these objectives is our AI-native strategy, which enhances our ability to innovate and compete effectively across our learning services and advertising businesses. So let me provide additional details across our business lines. So first on the online marketing services. In 2025, online marketing revenue grew by 29% to RMB 2.5 billion. So in 2026, we plan to continue to focus on key growth areas by deploying more innovative solutions to capture favorable industry tailwinds. So we are seeing strong momentum marking demands across sectors such as AI applications, gaming, and also areas like short-form drama content. To capture these opportunities, we will continue to leverage advanced AI capabilities, including our AI app placement optimizer, which we will release version two shortly, and iMagicBox, alongside programmatic advertisement and KOR marketing solutions. So these initiatives we believe will help us further improve targeting precision and conversion efficiency for our customers. So our goal remains clear to deliver higher ROI for advertisers while providing a superior content experience for our users. Second, for learning services, we completed the restructuring of our online courses business by the end of 2025, as you already know. And we expect the learning services segment to return to around double-digit year-over-year growth in 2026. So encouragingly, the segment already achieved 18% year-over-year growth in the fourth quarter. So that's very good to see. So in terms of more details, Yeodaolingshi remains the centerpiece of our learning ecosystem. So in 2026, we will continue to leverage stronger and stronger capabilities of our large language model, Confucius, to drive product innovation and service enhancements in Yudang Shi, using AI to unlock new opportunities to user acquisition and engagement. So the second pillar of our learning services is AI-driven subscription services, which have been growing very rapidly. So total sales reached approximately RMB 400 million, representing an increase of over 50% year-over-year in 2025. So the launches of new products, Youdao Anyduck, Youdao Yin Shiping, and Scholar AI, Xue Fu Cha, these new products were well-received. So driving a record high revenue in this segment. So looking ahead, we believe 2026 will be a very important year for AI agents, which are more advanced AI systems capable of actually completing complex tasks and delivering more value to users. So we believe this industry trend plays to Yodal's strengths. as we have a long track record of successfully developing user-centric applications. So we plan to continue introducing new AI applications and agents to expand our services and portfolios this year, enhancing user engagement and strengthening our business models, which we expect will support sustained revenue growth. Thirdly, on smart devices, for this segment, our priority is to continue improving the overall health of the business. This year, we remain focused on two core products, the dictionary pen and the tutoring pen, deepening our presence in STEM learning scenarios to address the user's critical pain points. In summary, we see very meaningful opportunities across both the learning services and advertising segments, and we are well positioned to capture them. Our experienced teams and strong execution capabilities in applying AI technologies, they will enable us to continuously enhance our products and services. We will continue leveraging all our strengths in 2026 to better serve our users and customers while driving sustainable long-term growth. Yeah, thank you.

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Brian Kong
Analyst, Citi

Thank you.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Brenda Xiao with CICC. Please go ahead.

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Brenda Xiao
Analyst, CICC

Good evening, Zhou Zong, Su Zong. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on achieving another solid quarter. I just have a quick follow-up on the Youdao Lingshi business because last year Youdao Lingshi made positive progress. And what's the plan and outlook for 2026? Can the management give us more details? Thank you.

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Peng Shu
Senior Vice President

Thank you, Brenda. This is Supong. I will handle the questions. And, yeah, heading into the 20.5.6, we are, first, we are very confident about the future growth of the Udall Linkshu business because of the outcome of the Linkshu's customers in 20.5 and also the upgrade features of the Udall Linkshu's AI functions and which pushed the retention rate to over 75%, just like Dr. Wu shared with the disinformation with you and in the previous comments. And I think for the 2096, our strategy is in two ways, product refinement and efficient customer acquisitions. The first, the AI's core buildings are differentiated, competitive AI, we believe. We remain to commit our unique AI interactive class services model. We will continue to expand and polish our AI features, ensuring that the technology truly serves the learning outcomes. Leveraging the power of our library model computers, we are making the teaching process more precise and scientific, we believe. And let's start with a little bit more details. The process of the pre-session diagonals and the planning in our services. We will improve the accuracy of diagnosing the knowledge gaps to generate the scientific and personalized learning paths, essentially teaching students according to their aptitude. Second, solving the core pain points. We are addressing the critical needs in the college entrance and the prepare process with the practical features like the AI-based college admissions advisors and AI asset grading. comprehensively elevating the user's experience and the loyalty. And the next is about the dual core approach. We are exploring a more efficient path for the customer acquisitions. First, definitely, we need to highlight the organic traffic owned by Udall. We will further activate the traffic value within our own ecosystem by deeply integrating with our apps, like the Udall dictionary and Mr. P AI tutors. as well as our smart devices like the UDAO 2.0 PIN. We can improve the acquisition procession while efficiently lowering the cost, leveraging the conversion from our existing broad user space. The new AI-driven channels, we are exploring the franchise customer acquisition channels powered by our AI features, using our technology and advantage to open up a new growth space and inject volatility into our business. In 2096, driven by the tech innovation and guided by our users' value, we expect to push the LinkShare business to a new height. We believe we will keep growing and keep investing in that business. I hope that answers your question. Thank you, Brandon.

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Brenda Xiao
Analyst, CICC

Thank you, Susan. That's very helpful.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Linda Wong with Macquarie. Please go ahead.

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Linda Wong
Analyst, Macquarie

Thanks, Larry, for the management. So my question is regarding for advertisement. In 2025, we saw the very strong overseas advertisement growth. So I just want to know that how does the management think about the outlook in 2026? So that's my question. Thank you.

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Lei Jin
President

Thank you. This is Lei Jing. In 2025, our advertising business achieved several key milestones, including the launch of Yoda image box and our AI AD placement optimizer, alongside our official partnership with Google. Those initiatives drove our online marketing revenues to a record RMB 2.1 billion, a robust 28.5% increase year-over-year. Looking ahead to 2026, We aim to drive high-quality growth by deepening our core resources and pushing our technological boundaries. First, we will double down on our international QL business. We are capitalizing on the Chinese enterprises going global, positioning ourselves as their strategic accelerator. This remains our core stronghold. We have built a highly competitive global traffic ecosystem with two key pillars. First, our resource mode. We now reach over 30 million influencers and bidders globally, with more than 1,000 top tier influencers under exclusive contracts. This creates a significant barrier to the entry. our service track record. We have successfully helped over 1,000 companies go global, covering more than 50 countries. Our coverage is diverse, as being traditional strongholds like gaming, e-commerce, automotive, and consumer electronics. We are also capturing emerging opportunities like short-form drama. In 2026, we will scale this Further, using our resource advantage to serve more Chinese companies seeking global growth. Second, we are actively exploring overseas programmatic advertising to drive tech-lead long-term growth. If the QR business is about human connection, programmatic advertising is an efficiency revolution based on technology. We will leverage our proprietary vertical AD model combined with our experience and broad client base on domestic programmatic ADS to explore this market abroad. Empowered by our RRM, we are committed to achieve more precise traffic distribution and higher ROI. Our goal is to translate those technical capabilities into actual business increments, aiming to build a second growth curve for our overseas advertising business in the medium to long term. In summary, through the dual engines of our international QL business and our programmatic ADA exploration, we decided to take our overseas advertising to the next level in 2016. Thank you.

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Linda Wong
Analyst, Macquarie

Thank you very much.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from Bozan with Huatai Securities. Please go ahead.

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Zhang Bu
Analyst, Huatai Securities

Thanks for taking my question. I'm Zhang Bu from Huatai. My question is, Youdao achieved a four-year positive net operating cash flow for the first year in 2025. Is the goal for 2026 to achieve a net inflow for the total cash flow? Thanks.

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Wayne Lee
Vice President of Finance

Thank you for your question, Zhang Bu. This is Wayne. I will take your question. As we know, a company's total cash flow is composed of three pillars, operating, investing, and financing activities. Among these, operating cash flow stands as the most critical indicator of business health and long-term sustainability. Therefore, I would first like to address our performance and strategic objectives regarding operating cash flow. Enhancing profitability and secure positive operating cash flow were our core target for 2025. As mentioned by Dr. Zhou, we have successfully delivered on both of these goals last year. Looking ahead to 2026, our objective is to achieve faster growth in operating profit and prepare our operating cash flow to a more meaningful and substantial level. Our confidence in this trajectory is rooted in three key drivers. First, AI-driven empowerment. The widespread integration of AI is profoundly transforming our product form and services models. In 2025, we successfully validated AI's immense potential for enhancing quality and efficiency across our business line. Second, the momentum of our core business units. Powered by Confucius advertising and AI-driven subscription services are expected to maintain their strong momentum. This is expected to drive acceleration in the year-over-year growth of our total revenue and the improvement in operating profits. Third, the continuous upgrade of the foreign management by optimizing credit management for our B2B operations and other key processes. We have significantly bolstered our financial resilience and risk mitigation capabilities. Regarding the goal of achieving a positive total cash flow, we maintain a balanced and rational stance. We will not blindly tighten expenditures simply to reach a positive figure on paper. Instead, we will seek the optimal equilibrium between strategic investment opportunities and the cost discipline. Should a strategic investment target emerge in the market, we will move decisively to capture them. Furthermore, when cash reserves are sufficient, we will optimize our capital structure by investing in wealth management products or repaying principal and loans from our parent company. While these actions are recorded as an investing or financing cash outflow, which may affect the total cash flow figure in the short term. However, this serves to increase interest income or reduce financing interest costs in the long run. Above all, we will prioritize the continuous improvements of our operating cash flow as it is the most valued cash flow metric. Building upon this, we will also steadily It advances the healthy development of our total cash flow to general long-term value for our shareholders. Thank you.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. Thank you. Your next question comes from Jialong Shi with Nomura. Please go ahead. Your line is unmuted. Please proceed with your question.

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Jialong Shi
Analyst, Nomura

Sorry, can you hear me now? Yes, we can hear you now. Oh, great. Dr. Zhou and Suzong, thank you for taking my question. Congratulations on a very solid quarter. I recall Dr. Zhou mentioned in the opening remarks, 2026 is the year of AI agents. So my question is, in what areas of your DAO business will you plan to deploy the AI agent and how significant the potential impact will be? Thank you.

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Dr. Feng Zhou
Chief Executive Officer

Hi, John. It's good to speak to you. So, yeah, so we think AI agents is an area of particular interest to us. one of the key reason is that so compared with chat products the first generation AI products so AI agents they they operate longer they have access to more customer and user data and they can make deeper and more meaningful decisions regarding how to serve the customer or user better. So basically they are more intelligent AI product that can create real values. So we look at all our business to see if we have opportunity to apply this technology. there are several we have already mentioned and we are working on. So one is regarding our advertising business. So we already have the AI ad placement optimizer product. So basically there are a lot of opportunities to apply agents in ads because ads is a is an area where a lot of experience and a lot of data is needed to achieve good results. So before, the people operating the ad systems, they contribute a lot of the value in having good results, active results. Now, we can have these agents to try different combinations, to try more combinations, and actually transfer more knowledge and experience between ad campaigns of the same customer or even across customers and segments to achieve better results. So this I believe is an area where a lot of value can be created simply because the sheer scale of advertising. So that's one area. So the other area of course is learning and productivity applications. So one example I can give is the AI simultaneous interpretation app. So we think it is an agent application because compared with translation five years ago, it's very different. So it combines the voice technology together with large language model-driven translation technology. it automatically summarizes the conversation and in the future we will be able to help users take further actions after either it's an online meeting or it's an online course that the user is experiencing. So basically, We think there are a lot of possibilities and combining these user scenarios with a subscription-based business model. So users are, nowadays the young users are very willing to pay for services on a monthly or quarterly basis over subscription. So we think If you look at the numbers, we already have about 400 million RMB in subscription sales in 2025. We believe we're still at the beginning. It's still very early, so we have a lot of room to grow this sales. One last thing. So today we launched a new AI agent product, basically a little bit like OpenClaw. So basically a seven-day, 24-hour AI agent that runs on your computer and helps you achieve tasks. Yeah, so it's called Youdao Lobster AI. Yeah, so yeah, if you guys are interested, you can look it up. Yeah, hope that answers your question. Thank you.

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Jialong Shi
Analyst, Nomura

Yes, that did. Thanks, Dr. Zhou, for the detailed comments.

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Dr. Feng Zhou
Chief Executive Officer

Thank you.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. And that concludes the question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference over back to management for any additional closing comments.

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Jeffrey Wang
Investor Relations Director

Thank you once again for joining us today. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us as you dial directly or reach out to Pearson Financial Communications in China or the US. Have a nice day.

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