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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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MiniMax

Singapore·Southeast Asia

LandedSE-009
Large Models / Generative AISubsidiary / Representative Office2022

The company operates its overseas business through two Singapore subsidiaries: Subsup Pte. Ltd. (UEN 202232608W, registered 14 September 2022, 8 Kaki Bukit Ave 4 #08-32), the developer entity for the AI companion app Talkie; and Nanonoble Pte. Ltd. (UEN 202410771D, registered 19 March 2024, 152 Beach Road #14-02 Gateway East), the operating entity for the text-to-video product Hailuo AI. In the first nine months of 2025, its AI-native products reached more than 200 countries and regions with over 212 million users; the prospectus revenue breakdown shows Singapore and the United States as its two primary overseas markets. It listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 9 January 2026, raising approximately US$619 million in actual proceeds (against a planned offering cap of US$539 million), with its share price nearly doubling on the first day of trading.

LandedSE-014
Large Models / Generative AITechnology Licensing / Open-source Release2025

Alibaba Cloud partnered with Singapore's national AI programme AI Singapore to build the regional multilingual model Qwen-SEA-LION-v4 (released November 2025) based on Tongyi Qwen3-32B: post-trained on more than 100 billion tokens of Southeast Asian language data, covering Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Filipino, Tamil, and other languages; it offers 4-bit/8-bit quantised versions that can run on consumer-grade laptops, is freely available via Hugging Face, and has topped the SEA-HELM leaderboard among open-source models of the same class.

Zhipu AI (Z.ai)

Singapore·Southeast Asia

LandedSE-017
Large Models / Generative AIGovernment / Project-based Cooperation2025

Zhipu AI has prioritised Southeast Asia in its overseas expansion: it has established offices in Singapore and Malaysia, operates joint 'innovation centres' in Indonesia and Vietnam, and promotes localised sovereign AI agents to multiple national governments; its Hong Kong IPO prospectus confirms that the company is involved in building 'national- and city-level foundation model platforms' in Southeast Asia. In the first three quarters of 2025, revenue from private (on-premises) large-model deployments in Malaysia and Singapore was nearly RMB 18 million (approximately US$2.6 million), making these its only overseas private-deployment markets besides the United States.

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