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

J&T Express announced in March 2025 that the DeepSeek model would be applied to sorting centres and customer service; in November 2025 it commissioned Thailand's first AI-recognition-plus-automatic-scanning-camera sorting system at the Wang Thonglang sorting centre in Bangkok (60 additional sorting lanes; sorting capacity for the same period increased by over 100% versus the original system), with plans to expand to other centres in 2026.

Huawei and Siriraj Hospital (Faculty of Medicine, Mahidol University) launched a 5G + AI smart-hospital project on 16 December 2021, implementing nine sub-projects including a 5G+AI pathology diagnosis system; verified components include a 5G portable medical kit, a 5G unmanned vehicle, a 5G medical cart, a 5G smart hospital bed, MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing), and hybrid cloud.

Tencent Cloud opened its SECOND internet data centre in Thailand in Bangkok in June 2021 (announced alongside Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo), a Tier-3 facility with GPU support offering AI, IoT, facial recognition, OCR and Live Video Broadcasting (LVB); as of January 2023 it operated two high-performance data centres in Thailand serving local enterprises and government. Its Thai market entry predates this: Tencent Cloud has been distributed and co-delivered in Thailand by True IDC (True Corporation's data-centre arm) since at least April 2019, and True IDC's current Tencent Cloud service page markets in-country data residency (PDPA), facial recognition and digital identity verification, intelligent virtual humans, enterprise LLM knowledge management, AI image/video generation, and CDN across 2,800+ global nodes, with Thai-baht billing and Thai engineer support.

Alibaba Cloud launched Thailand's first local data centre on 12 May 2022, obtaining ISO27001/ISO20000 certification and complying with Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) and the Bank of Thailand (BOT)'s financial regulatory guidelines; in early 2025 it launched a second data centre, bringing a richer generative AI product portfolio and industry-specific solutions to address local GenAI demand, and building a local ecosystem together with more than 40 partners, including National Telecom and True IDC, through the Partner Alliance 100 partner programme.

ByteDance/TikTok's data-centre investment in Thailand, promoted through the Thailand Board of Investment. Helena Lersch, TikTok's Global Vice President of Public Policy, disclosed a five-year, USD 8.8 billion data-centre investment plan for Thailand in Bangkok on 28 February 2025 (Reuters); it is unclear whether this includes an earlier USD 3.76 billion project. The expansion entity is TikTok System (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

Quicktron delivered a goods-to-person robotic fulfilment system to Thai courier unicorn Flash Express, covering a 5,000 sqm automated area with more than 160 M-Series autonomous mobile robots integrated with flat-belt and inclining conveyors, balance-wheel sorters and case unpackers. Quicktron reports 60% cost saving and 350 pieces per hour per station.