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Follow the Money: China’s Cheap AI Just Moved the Market’s Focus From Chips to Apps

Follow the Money: China’s Cheap AI Just Moved the Market’s Focus From Chips to Apps

by Raphael Dudler | Aug 6, 2026 | Latest News

Investors are quietly moving out of chipmakers and into the internet giants that own what people actually use. It’s the clearest financial proof yet: in AI, the value is in deployment, not silicon. Follow the money — it points east.

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