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

Aramco's Prosperity7 Ventures made a follow-on investment (reported 'tens of millions of RMB') in Shanghai autonomous-driving-solutions provider Hyperview / Hongjing Drive (May 2023).

Prosperity7 Ventures (Aramco) was a named investor in D-Robotics' US$150M Series B2 (total Series B US$270M, Apr 2026); D-Robotics is a Horizon Robotics spinoff making robot-compute platforms/chips for embodied AI.

Saudi Arabia's NEOM Investment Fund invested US$100M in Pony.ai (25 Oct 2023) and formed a JV to develop, manufacture and deliver autonomous-driving services, advanced vehicles and smart infrastructure in NEOM and MENA, including an AV manufacturing/R&D facility.

At Arab Health 2025 (Feb 2025) United Imaging announced a multi-disciplinary collaboration with Saudi Arabia's Al Mana Group spanning CT, radiotherapy, molecular imaging and AI, delivered via its uAI platform (AI-assisted reconstruction/diagnosis).

stc Group and Huawei launched an AI-powered Autonomous Network Level-4 operations platform ('ICNMaster') on 17 Jun 2026 — with AI anomaly detection, closed-loop automation, a 'FaultSpirit' reasoning engine for alarm diagnosis and a 'NOCMate' knowledge assistant — moving stc to predictive network management.

ByteDance's TikTok Shop is reported to be planning a Q1 2027 marketplace launch in Saudi Arabia, bringing recommendation-algorithm-driven social commerce to ~28M monthly Saudi TikTok users; not yet live as of Aug 2026.

Huawei launched its first localised cloud service in Türkiye at the Huawei Türkiye Cloud Summit in Istanbul on 12 July 2023, releasing 78 cloud services covering data, AI and cloud-native workloads plus a disaster-recovery site in Ankara, with the deputy minister of Transport and Infrastructure attending. In its October 2024 Türkiye summit Huawei Cloud said it was the country's first and only local public-cloud provider, had launched over 110 cloud services, grown Turkish business twelve-fold in a year and served more than 360 local customers in banking, retail, e-commerce and media, and announced a US$6 million, three-year 'Cloud Acceleration Program for Digital Transformation' for Turkish startups.

United Imaging's uMR Jupiter 5T whole-body ultra-high-field 5T MRI was integrated at Sezin Medical Imaging (Istanbul), described as a regional benchmark; uAI reconstruction is included.

Alibaba owns ~70% of Turkish e-commerce platform Trendyol (initial stake 2018; a further US$2B pledged in 2023). In Oct 2024 Trendyol launched its first proprietary LLM — built on Alibaba's infrastructure — for real-time cross-border seller-buyer translation, while scaling in the Gulf (Saudi ~80% of Gulf orders; >US$1B Gulf GMV in 2024).