Jack Ma buys $76.5 million in Alibaba shares as the company increases AI spending, cloud investment and infrastructure expansion.

The Chinese tech giant is expanding beyond retail into chips, cloud and large language models as surging spending weighs on quarterly profits.

Alibaba is selling HK$80bn of new shares in Hong Kong, with all net proceeds going to AI infrastructure, days after profit fell 75% on the same spending.

By Fabiana Negrin Ochoa and Tracy Qu

Investors are wary of the Chinese company’s funding of AI infrastructure and chips

Alibaba Sells More Shares to Raise $10.2B to Spend on AI