{"id":151805,"date":"2026-05-22T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151805"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:00:06","slug":"chinas-ai-start-up-funding-triples-to-us16b-in-first-quarter-amid-bets-on-llms-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151805","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s AI start-up funding triples to US$16b in first quarter amid bets on LLMs, robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostFunding for China\u2019s artificial-intelligence-related start-ups jumped nearly threefold year on year in the first quarter, as investors poured capital into large language models (LLMs) and embodied AI amid growing optimism over the country\u2019s technology ecosystem.<br \/>\nAI-related start-ups secured more than 110 billion yuan (US$16.2 billion) in the first three months of the year, representing a 185 per cent surge from the same period last year, according to data released on Thursday by Beijing-based&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3354502\/chinas-ai-start-funding-triples-us16b-first-quarter-amid-bets-llms-robotics?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostFunding for China\u2019s artificial-intelligence-related start-ups jumped nearly threefold year on year in the first quarter, as investors poured capital into large language models (LLMs)&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}