According to KPMG's "2025 Global CEO Outlook," which is derived from an annual survey encompassing more than 1,300 CEOs globally, a notable 69% of the participants have expressed their intention to allocate between 10% and 20% of their budgets to the artificial intelligence (AI) sector over the next 12 months. Among these, an impressive 86% of Chinese CEOs anticipate that the return on investment (ROI) period for AI will be within three years. This marks a substantial surge from the mere 18% recorded last year, with 20% of them even believing that the ROI period will be less than a single year.