The 'big tech' companies drive R&D spending to historic highs of $200 billion under AI demands
Alphabet, Meta, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all report strong increases in the first half. SpaceX concentrates most of its research activity in artificial intelligence.
The big tech companies once again significantly increased their research and development (R&D) spending during the first half of the year. A trend that was already marked during 2025, and accelerated again at the start of 2026 due to these companies' multi-billion-euro bets on artificial intelligence (AI), which is forcing them to increase their allocations far beyond their previous efforts. Among all of them, the investment effort amounts to around 200,000 million euros just in this half of the year.
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