Internet platforms with vast data and large user bases will capture a larger share of artificial intelligence profits in two to three years, even though macro headwinds have temporarily fuelled investor caution over aggressive AI spending by Chinese tech giants, UBS analysts said.<\/p>\n
Investors have been cautious over a weak macro environment in the second half of the year, and greater AI spending for hardware and infrastructure would drag down short-term profits, but the industry\u2019s power balance was set to flip soon, according to Kenneth Fong, head of China internet research at UBS.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is all about the cycle. Now the capacity constraint is on the upstream… so [they] capture a big chunk of the whole profit pool,\u201d Fong said in an interview on Tuesday on the sidelines of a UBS event in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut two to three years down the road after the capacity constraint eases, the pricing power will shift to the downstream, where they have the distribution capability, data and users,\u201d Fong noted. \u201cThe internet company will start to work again.\u201d<\/p>\n
To strengthen their AI war chest, Chinese tech giants have been ramping up their capital expenditures in the past quarter, at the expense of their free cash flows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Internet platforms with vast data and large user bases will capture a larger share of artificial intelligence profits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[129],"tags":[2252,60745,225,351,60747,60746,60748,60749,7855,49409,223,38253,714,52595,49410],"class_list":["post-124152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ubs","tag-ai","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china","tag-chinese-tech-giants","tag-fong","tag-internet-platforms","tag-kenneth-fong","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-tencent-holdings","tag-ubs","tag-ubs-securities","tag-us","tag-xiong-wei","tag-yuan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117200136913980933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}