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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CloudWalk Technology

Zimbabwe·Sub-Saharan Africa

LandedAF-015

Computer VisionGovernment / Project-based Cooperation2018

In 2018, CloudWalk signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Zimbabwean government to develop a large-scale facial-recognition system/facial database and apply the technology to smart finance and public-security scenarios such as airports, railway stations, and bus stations. Public reporting also noted that the system would need to adapt to Zimbabwean facial characteristics, raising issues around local facial-data collection and model training.

Source: China exports facial ID technology to Zimbabwe (2018)High