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

Huawei Cloud operates data centres in Thailand and cooperates with the public sector: it announced in November 2020 the construction of a third Thailand data centre for approximately THB 700 million (approximately USD 23 million), with launch planned for 2021, and signed an MoU with Thailand's Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (MDES) in December 2023; work with the Thai Meteorological Department covers weather-forecasting models.

SenseTime has established generative AI in Thailand through a partnership model: in March 2023, it signed an MoU with T&B Media Global to participate in building Translucia, Thailand's first virtual world, covering areas such as smart cities and the metaverse; in July 2024, Thailand's DTGO Group (parent company of the property developer MQDC) and SenseTime, based on SenseNova (Rixin) 5.5, launched DTLM, a trilingual Thai-Chinese-English large language model, described as the world's first efficient trilingual model, providing enterprise customers with low-cost, localized generative AI that incorporates a digital trust framework, exclusively distributed by DTGO's subsidiary Quinnnova.