Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced on Monday its plan to raise $80 billion by selling shares, to support its massive artificial intelligence infrastructure and global computing capacity expansion. This move marks an escalation in the AI arms race among tech giants.

It is reported that the plan not only targets the public market but also includes a directed sale of $10 billion worth of shares to Berkshire Hathaway, a company previously led by Warren Buffett. In its statement, Alphabet admitted that current demand for AI solutions and services from both enterprises and consumers has exceeded its current supply capacity. This large-scale capital expansion aims to completely break through capacity bottlenecks, ensuring a healthy balance sheet in a balanced financial manner and fully securing future growth opportunities.

This major strategic move is not an isolated case but a reflection of the aggressive investment in AI hard technology by global tech giants. At last month's Google I/O conference, CEO Sundar Pichai had already revealed that the company expects its capital expenditures to increase to between $180 billion and $190 billion by the end of this year. Industry data shows that total capital expenditures by major tech giants in the field of artificial intelligence are expected to reach a historical high of up to $700 billion this year.

As the critical window period for commercializing large models approaches, the success or failure of infrastructure construction has become a decisive factor in the long-term competitiveness of AI. Alphabet's bold $10 billion financing not only accelerates the optimization of its own computing power supply chain but is also expected to profoundly impact the global AI cloud service and computing power markets.