{"id":1337,"date":"2025-06-25T11:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinas-ai-capital-spending-set-to-reach-up-to-us98-billion-in-2025-bofa\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:50:21","slug":"chinas-ai-capital-spending-set-to-reach-up-to-us98-billion-in-2025-bofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinas-ai-capital-spending-set-to-reach-up-to-us98-billion-in-2025-bofa\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s AI capital spending set to reach up to US$98 billion in 2025: BofA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/06\/25\/fc969d7f-c36f-45e1-b658-29603de99454_5be46d1c.jpg?itok=1KFNZjC6&amp;v=1750846768\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\" css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-y2bwcc e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That would represent as much as a 48 per cent overall growth this year for China&rsquo;s AI capex from 2024, BofA Securities&rsquo; co-head of China equity research Matty Zhao, who also heads Asia-Pacific basic materials, oil and gas research at BofA Global Research, said in an interview on Monday.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"12.617647058824\">Government investment is expected to account for up to 400 billion yuan of total AI spending on the mainland, according to the BofA report published earlier this month. China&rsquo;s major <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">internet<\/span> companies, meanwhile, are projected to contribute as much as 172 billion yuan.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Spending attributed by BofA to the country&rsquo;s large telecommunications network operators and special-purpose bonds makes up the rest of the forecast AI capex.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"7.5974842767296\">The predicted surge in China&rsquo;s AI spending in 2025 reflects the heightened enthusiasm for the technology on the mainland on the back of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">DeepSeek<\/span>&rsquo;s success.<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\" css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-gy323d e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"11.598382749326\">The <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Hangzhou<\/span>-based <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">start-up<\/span> generated worldwide attention earlier this year after consecutively releasing two advanced open-source AI models, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">V3<\/span> and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">R1<\/span>, developed at a fraction of the cost and computing power that major tech firms typically require for large language model (LLM) projects. LLM refers to the technology underpinning <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">generative AI<\/span> services such as <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">ChatGPT<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"11.737991266376\">Following DeepSeek&rsquo;s accomplishment, Chinese Big Tech companies, including <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Alibaba Group Holding<\/span> and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Tencent Holdings<\/span>, announced plans for increased AI investments, BofA&rsquo;s Zhao said. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>China&rsquo;s AI capital spending set to reach up to US$98 billion in 2025: BofA<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advertisement That would represent as much as a 48 per cent overall growth this year for China&rsquo;s AI capex from 2024, BofA Securities&rsquo; co-head of China equity research Matty Zhao, who also heads Asia-Pacific basic materials, oil and gas research at BofA Global Research, said in an interview on Monday. Government investment is expected to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinas-ai-capital-spending-set-to-reach-up-to-us98-billion-in-2025-bofa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;China\u2019s AI capital spending set to reach up to US$98 billion in 2025: BofA&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}