Sourced records of Chinese AI deployments across the Global South and the Middle East

A data-centre development at the Pecem port complex in Ceara, Brazil, for which Brazilian officials (not the company) have publicly identified ByteDance/TikTok as the anchor tenant; ByteDance has declined to comment, and no source specifies the AI workload.

Tencent Cloud operates a Sao Paulo, Brazil region; as of 23 Jun 2025 the Lighthouse cloud-server product is available in Sao Paulo Zone 1.

Replace 'anti-fraud tools' with the actually documented features: telemetry-based Relatório de Direção, Código de Segurança validation, and the Mais Segura programme (route sharing, audio recording, real-time monitoring). Note the sources describe 'inteligência de dados'/telemetry rather than using the term AI.

Taskr Robotics Brazil's official website states it is the official distributor of PUDU Robotics in Brazil, providing service, cleaning, logistics, and operational support robots, and is responsible for local deployment, training, maintenance, and spare parts support.

Kuaishou AI Open Platform lists Kwai as a cooperation case and showcases AI capabilities in AIGC, image, video, NLP, smart effects, and recommendations; Kwai operates as a short-video and content platform in Brazil, serving local creators through recommendation algorithms and content tools.

Meitu's official website discloses that Brazil is among its top 10 global paid subscription countries; its AI photo editing, AI video, AI Avatar, and other visual generation tools enter Brazil's consumer creative market as online product exports.

KEENON service robots entered the Brazilian market through Brazilian distributor Quality Systems (Uberlandia, Minas Gerais), announced in February 2024: Estado de Minas reports the robots were 'trazidas pela empresa brasileira Quality Systems, de Uberlandia... em parceria com a Keenon, maior fabricante do mundo neste segmento', with the concierge/butler model W3 and the waiter model T5 aimed at hotels, shopping centres and restaurants. A concrete installation is documented: the Mercure Uberlandia Plaza Shopping hotel (Uberlandia, MG) put a W3 butler robot into service, which rides the lift autonomously and delivers room service and meals to guests (TI INSIDE, 2024-07-12).

United Imaging's 2024 annual results release names Brazil among strategic emerging markets with 'multiple system installations completed'. It entered Brazil in 2024 through an exclusive partnership with Strattner as sole distributor; the ANVISA-approved portfolio includes the uMR Omega (first 3T ultra-wide-bore MR in Brazil, running the uAIFI AI platform), the uCT550 and post-processing servers, with whole-body PET/CT then in ANVISA approval. Note the standalone uAI software from United Imaging Intelligence is not commercially available in Brazil.

On 27 August 2026 Alibaba Cloud launched its first cloud region in Brazil (São Paulo), comprising two new data centres — its first cloud region in South America. The region offers compute, storage, container, networking, security, database, big-data and cloud-native services on local infrastructure, and Alibaba Cloud said it plans to introduce a suite of enterprise-grade agentic AI services there (ACS Agent Sandbox, DAS Agent, Data Agent for Analytics, DataWorks Data Agent, Agent Security Center, AI Security Guardrails 2.0, Agentic SOC). It follows the Mexico region opened in February 2025.