Capital expenditure on artificial intelligence (AI) in China is forecast to reach 600 billion yuan to 700 billion yuan (US$84 billion to US$98 billion) this year, according to a Bank of America (BofA) report, as the mainland and the United States race for primacy in the vital technology.
That would represent as much as a 48 per cent overall growth this year for China’s AI capex from 2024, BofA Securities’ co-head of China equity research Matty Zhao, who also heads Asia-Pacific basic materials,…



