Investors have been piling in to Chinese AI and chip companies listing in Hong Kong this year with more to come in the pipeline.
Z.ai executives attend a ceremony to mark the company's listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, January 8, 2026. Credit: HKEX via X
Bankers on Wall Street are champing at the bit to take the United States’ largest artificial intelligence firms public. Their counterparts in China are having more luck.
Six Chinese AI and chip companies have listed in Hong Kong already this month, making up more than half of the new firms to debut on the city’s exchange in 2026. These half-dozen listings have together raised $3.6 billion, almost 60 percent more than the amount raised by all Hong Kong initial public offerings during the f
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