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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ByteDance / TikTok

Singapore·Southeast Asia

LandedSE-007

E-commerce / Recommendation AlgorithmsSubsidiary / Representative Office2019

Since 2019, it decided to make Singapore its regional headquarters and implement a three-year investment plan, planning to invest billions of US dollars and hire hundreds of staff (as of Reuters' September 2020 report, it already had approximately 400 employees and 200+ open positions). The plan at the time included building a data centre in Singapore, though Reuters stated no final decision had been made. Its Singapore entity, TikTok Pte. Ltd. (UEN 201719908M, registered 17 July 2017), coordinates regional and international operations (including a US$3.8 billion data hosting investment in Thailand approved in January 2025). TikTok's CEO is based in Singapore.

Source: TikTok owner ByteDance plans to spend billions on Singapore base (SCMP) (2020)High