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摘要: 谷歌母公司Alphabet宣布计划融资高达800亿美元,其中包括向伯克希尔·哈撒韦出售100亿美元股份。资金将主要用于扩建AI计算基础设施,以应对Gemini等AI服务激增的市场需求。作为史上最大规模股权融资之一,此举凸显了AI领域的巨额资本投入,同时也引发市场对其投资回报率及AI“烧钱”模式经济可持续性的担忧。

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Alphabet’s Gemini AI system has been increasing its share of the AI chatbot market.

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Alphabet’s Gemini AI system has been increasing its share of the AI chatbot market.

Photograph: Algi Febri Sugita/Zuma Press/Shutterstock

Google owner Alphabet to sell $80bn in stock to fund AI spending spree

One of largest equity fundraisings ever includes $10bn share sale to US investment group Berkshire Hathaway

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Google’s parent company,

Alphabet

, has said it plans to raise up to $80bn (£59bn) in equity to fund its vast artificial intelligence infrastructure investments, raising further questions over the economics of the AI boom.

The move, one of the largest equity fundraisings ever, includes a $10bn share sale to the US investment group Berkshire Hathaway, which was

led until last year

by the investment guru Warren Buffett.

Alphabet, which is behind the Gemini system that has been increasing its share of the AI chatbot market, said it would use the money to expand its “world-class AI compute infrastructure to meet its unprecedented customer demand”.

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The California-based company said: “AI is driving an expansionary moment for Alphabet. The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply. By scaling its investments, the company seeks to expand its foundational infrastructure to support the significant growth opportunity ahead.”

However, such a huge fundraising is also a warning to the markets that for all the many billions of dollars thrown at AI infrastructure, meaningful returns to investors have so far been limited.

Jim Reid, a market strategist at Deutsche Bank, said Alphabet was reminding investors of the “unprecedented scale of the AI spending boom


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