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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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LandedSA-01
Cloud & Computing InfrastructureData Centre / Computing Facility2023

Huawei's first Middle East cloud region, launched in Riyadh on 4 Sep 2023 with three availability zones; hosts Pangu large models and the ModelArts AI-development platform. At LEAP 2025 Huawei pledged a further US$400M over five years for AI-ready infrastructure; serves 1,000+ customers and 300+ partners, and the Saudi government built an Arabic LLM on the platform.

Announced-concreteSA-03
Cloud & Computing InfrastructureData Centre / Computing Facility2025

Tencent Cloud announced its first Middle East cloud region in Saudi Arabia at LEAP 2025 (10 Feb 2025): two availability zones and >US$150M pledged, with AI services including E-KYC, Palm AI, an AI Agent Development Platform and multilingual digital-human tech; region expected operational in 2025.

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