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

DiDi Colombia's official AI page discloses two named models: Temis, which uses facial recognition to verify that a user has not previously committed a safety incident, and Pitia, which analyses requested trips to identify risks by time and place and assigns higher-risk trips only to experienced drivers. Remove Hércules.

Huawei Cloud Chile launched AI and cloud-related tools at a local summit, and emphasized its early investment in Chile's public cloud to serve local digital transformation, enterprise cloud adoption, and AI application deployment, representing Huawei Cloud's local cloud infrastructure presence in Chile.

Alibaba Cloud launched its first Mexico cloud region on 18 February 2025, providing elastic computing, storage, networking, container and security services to Latin American enterprises and developers, and working with local universities on cloud and AI skills. The source does not evidence Qwen or Model Studio availability in the Mexico region.

Dahua's Latin America case study reports that Chilean food producer Ariztía, which operates more than 10 production plants, deployed a Dahua AI-badged CCTV system from December 2020 in phases, addressing livestock and raw-material theft, access control and production monitoring; Ariztía's corporate security chief reports theft fell by roughly 80%.

Mexico EdgeNet uses Lenovo TruScale IaaS to build distributed AI factories, providing sovereign cloud and edge AI capabilities for Mexican SMEs, addressing challenges of high performance, low latency, and upfront investment barriers.

Pudu Robotics (Shenzhen) exports AI-driven service, cleaning and material-handling robots to Mexico through ServiBot, a brand of Pegasus Control S.A. de C.V. (Av. Paseo del Norte 5600, Technology Park Guadalajara, Zapopan, Jalisco). ServiBot's own site states 'Somos distribuidores oficiales de Pudu Robotics en Mexico' and its FAQ states 'ServiBot es un distribuidor autorizado de Pudu Robotics'; it runs a Pudu-only online store with spare-parts stock, a Guadalajara service centre and national installation/configuration/after-sales support. IMPORTANT: Pudu publishes no distributor directory (only a 'become our partner' application form) and neither the Pudu company page nor the Pudu newsroom mentions ServiBot, Pegasus Control, Mexico or Latin America, so the distributorship and every Mexico-specific figure are vendor self-claims with no manufacturer or third-party confirmation.

Taskr Robotics Brazil's official website states it is the official distributor of PUDU Robotics in Brazil, providing service, cleaning, logistics, and operational support robots, and is responsible for local deployment, training, maintenance, and spare parts support.

Kuaishou AI Open Platform lists Kwai as a cooperation case and showcases AI capabilities in AIGC, image, video, NLP, smart effects, and recommendations; Kwai operates as a short-video and content platform in Brazil, serving local creators through recommendation algorithms and content tools.

Meitu's official website discloses that Brazil is among its top 10 global paid subscription countries; its AI photo editing, AI video, AI Avatar, and other visual generation tools enter Brazil's consumer creative market as online product exports.

Meitu's AI photo editing app appears on Mexico's App Store as "Meitu: Editor de Fotos IA," offering AI retouching, AI Flash, AI Art, and AI Avatar, representing a visual AI product export for Mexican users.

KEENON service robots entered the Brazilian market through Brazilian distributor Quality Systems (Uberlandia, Minas Gerais), announced in February 2024: Estado de Minas reports the robots were 'trazidas pela empresa brasileira Quality Systems, de Uberlandia... em parceria com a Keenon, maior fabricante do mundo neste segmento', with the concierge/butler model W3 and the waiter model T5 aimed at hotels, shopping centres and restaurants. A concrete installation is documented: the Mercure Uberlandia Plaza Shopping hotel (Uberlandia, MG) put a W3 butler robot into service, which rides the lift autonomously and delivers room service and meals to guests (TI INSIDE, 2024-07-12).

Neusoft Medical promotes medical imaging and AI innovation in the Peruvian market, and showcased AI-enabled oncology solutions at the Peruvian Nuclear Medicine Congress, presenting intelligent imaging capabilities for oncology diagnosis to nuclear medicine physicians, cancer centers, and investors.

United Imaging's 2024 annual results release names Brazil among strategic emerging markets with 'multiple system installations completed'. It entered Brazil in 2024 through an exclusive partnership with Strattner as sole distributor; the ANVISA-approved portfolio includes the uMR Omega (first 3T ultra-wide-bore MR in Brazil, running the uAIFI AI platform), the uCT550 and post-processing servers, with whole-body PET/CT then in ANVISA approval. Note the standalone uAI software from United Imaging Intelligence is not commercially available in Brazil.

On 27 August 2026 Alibaba Cloud launched its first cloud region in Brazil (São Paulo), comprising two new data centres — its first cloud region in South America. The region offers compute, storage, container, networking, security, database, big-data and cloud-native services on local infrastructure, and Alibaba Cloud said it plans to introduce a suite of enterprise-grade agentic AI services there (ACS Agent Sandbox, DAS Agent, Data Agent for Analytics, DataWorks Data Agent, Agent Security Center, AI Security Guardrails 2.0, Agentic SOC). It follows the Mexico region opened in February 2025.

TikTok Shop 于2025年2月在墨西哥正式上线，以内容推荐驱动的'发现式电商'（Discovery E-commerce）模式运营，形式包括直播带货、信息流可购买短视频（In-Feed）、卖家主页与商店标签页，覆盖美妆、家居、时尚、运动、电子等品类。据平台2026年2月9日发布的周年数据，2025年2月至2026年1月期间，日均成交额（GMV）增长59倍，产生实际销售的活跃卖家数增长25倍。

Established its international headquarters in Singapore in 2015 and operated data centres there, serving regional enterprise customers. In July 2025, marking its tenth anniversary in Singapore, it launched its first AI Global Competency Center (AIGCC), aiming to support 5,000+ enterprises and 100,000 developers, established an AI Innovation Lab, and rolled out 10+ industry-specific AI agents; in May of the same year, it partnered with the IMDA to drive the adoption of AI and cloud among 3,000 local SMEs and digital solution providers.

Registered Fourth Paradigm Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd. (UEN 201823563Z) in Singapore on 11 July 2018, with its registered address at 1 Fusionopolis Place, #03-20 Galaxis, in the one-north business park — the sole overseas office listed on 4Paradigm's official website. Its ACRA registration status is Live. The entity was renamed PHANCY SOUTHEAST ASIA PTE. LTD. on 14 June 2026 (as of August 2026, 4Paradigm's official website still lists it under the former name, so the equity/branding change needs to be reviewed). Its registered primary business activity is semiconductor device manufacturing, with software and application development as a secondary activity.

In February 2018, it jointly established the Alibaba-NTU Singapore Joint Research Institute with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Alibaba's first overseas AI joint research institute, focusing on 'human-centred AI' (healthy ageing, AI lifestyle, and human-centred mobility), combining NTU's human-centred AI expertise with Alibaba's capabilities in NLP, computer vision, and machine learning; the initial phase spans five years, starting with 50 researchers, with an annual investment of several million Singapore dollars.

Its Singapore entity, SenseTime International Pte. Ltd., was registered in 2018; on 19 July 2021, it launched the SenseTime International AI Innovation Hub in Singapore as an AI capability hub for Southeast Asia, showcasing computer vision and smart city technologies, and signed MOUs with the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) Singapore and Business China to conduct AI talent development (including teacher AI capability building, student internships, and continuing education courses).

Established its first overseas office in Singapore on 23 January 2018, serving as a sales, marketing, and operations centre for the Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Macau markets (Computer Weekly: 'Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Macau'), and planned to add an R&D centre and hire approximately 50-60 AI researchers by the end of 2018 (no public evidence was found as to whether this plan was implemented). Its first regional customer was the Singapore security company Certis Cisco, which used its facial recognition solution to control access to sensitive areas such as data centres. This is a landmark early case of one of China's AI 'Four Little Dragons' expanding overseas to Singapore.