China Put RMB250 Billion Into AI in H1 2026, Mostly Into Robots. The US Put $217 Billion Into Two Model Labs

China’s official internet statistics body has put a number on Chinese AI investment in H1 2026, and next to the US figures the gap is roughly tenfold. For search people, the bigger story is where the money went. In China it mostly went into robots and hardware. In the US, more than half went to two model labs. China: RMB250 ...

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