DUIBA (01753) rose more than 15% in late trading. As of press time, the stock was up 15.43% at HK$0.935, with a turnover of HK$17.736 million.
On the news front, DUIBA announced that its AI short drama business has continued to grow rapidly since its launch in January 2026, and the AI short drama business is expected to achieve profitability for three consecutive months in July, August and September 2026, a significant improvement compared with the first half of the year. Data shows that in the first half of the year, the company's AI short dramas added a total of more than 5 billion views across all platforms, while in July 2026 alone the figure exceeded 6.8 billion views, topped 12.6 billion in August, and surpassed 26.4 billion in September.
It is worth noting that the founder of DUIBA donated 11% of the shares for equity incentives. XL Holding transferred 121 million shares to the employee platform Kewei Holding free of charge, to be used in the future for talent incentives required for the development of AI businesses such as AI short dramas. According to public information, this donation may be the largest founder donation to an ESOP as a proportion of total share capital in the Hong Kong stock market to date.
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