Deployment Intelligence

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

Each record carries country, segment, entry mode, local partner and verbatim scale wording, with a public source link wherever one exists. Check the original source before citing it in a business case, due-diligence answer or board briefing.

deployment records: 135
company groups: 54
host countries: 30
AI segments: 14
landed: 84
with public source links: 135

How to read these numbers: A purposive, publicly sourced case library, not a probability sample: counts describe the library, not market share. Monetary figures mix investment, revenue and user metrics — treat them as magnitude markers and defer to the verbatim description and source link.

Source: platform database (market_deployments).

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Global South (86)Middle East (49)

Zhipu AI (Z.ai)

Malaysia·Southeast Asia

LandedSE-027

Large Models / Generative AIGovernment / Project-based Cooperation2024

Zhipu AI helped Malaysia build a national-level sovereign large-model MaaS (Model-as-a-Service) platform and establish the national sovereign AI talent-development laboratory Z-UM AI Lab. The platform is built on Z.ai's open-source foundation models, optimized for a multilingual environment spanning Malay, English, and Chinese as well as local culture, and adopts a sovereignty-centered data security architecture, empowering use cases in government affairs, enterprise, research, and education. It has been described as the first substantive overseas case of a Chinese company delivering a national-level sovereign large model.

Source: Zhipu AI (02513): A New Breakthrough in Going Global — Helping Malaysia Build a National-Level Sovereign Large-Model Platform (2025)Medium