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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Global South (86)Middle East (49)

WeRide

United Arab Emirates·Middle East

Announced-concreteAE-06

Autonomous Driving / Smart MobilityProduct / Service Export2024

WeRide runs commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi with Uber and Tawasul Transport under an ITC permit; commercial service began Dec 2024 and reached L4 fully driverless operation on Yas Island in Nov 2025, expanding to downtown Abu Dhabi in Feb 2026 with a safety operator still on board in the downtown zone. WeRide states a fleet of 200+ robotaxis and a target of ≥1,200 across the Middle East by 2027 (company figures). Also live in Dubai.

Source: WeRide and Uber Begin First Commercial Robotaxi Service in Downtown Abu Dhabi (2024)Low

Airdoc

United Arab Emirates·Middle East

LandedAE-16

Healthcare AIProduct / Service Export2024

Airdoc's AI retinal-imaging system went live at Medcare Hospital Al Safa (Dubai) in May 2024; it screens 35 eye diseases and 9 chronic conditions (hypertension, anaemia, diabetes) plus cardiovascular risk from a fundus image in ~3 minutes (>95% accuracy).

Source: 2024: The year the UAE established its AI leadership (2024)Medium

Huawei

United Arab Emirates·Middle East

Announced-concreteAE-18

Cloud & Computing InfrastructureProduct / Service Export2022

Huawei jointly released IntelligentRAN in the Middle East with e&/Etisalat (UAE), du (UAE), stc (Saudi) and Zain (regional) on 13 Jun 2022, embedding a Mobile Intelligence Engine for intelligent identification, fault detection and autonomous-network capability into 5G.

Source: Etisalat UAE, du, STC, Zain, and Huawei jointly release IntelligentRAN in the Middle East (2022)Medium