A tour through the benchmarks that actually measure LLM performance in Asian languages — Nejumi, KMMLU, BnMMLU, SEA-HELM — and what they tell us about the frontier vs domestic gap.
A working tracker of where ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and the major Chinese LLMs are accessible across fifteen Asian markets. Last updated April 2026.
The US spent 23 times more than China on private AI investment in 2025 — $285.9 billion versus $12.4 billion — and yet the performance gap between the best American … Read more
Asia’s $311 Billion Ad Market, $2.3 Trillion Commerce Engine, and $102 Billion AI Layer Are Fusing Into a Single Stack There’s a simple model for understanding Asia’s digital economy, and … Read more
An estimated 80% of US startups now use Chinese AI base models to develop derivative products for their businesses, according to Andreessen Horowitz cited in a recent US-China Economic and … Read more
At least ten major Asian economies now have dedicated AI legislation or comprehensive national AI strategies in place, with several more in active development. The approaches vary enormously — from … Read more
Southeast Asia now hosts more than 2,000 data centres across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines (Ember, 2026), with hundreds more under construction and over a thousand in … Read more
Malaysia has more than 500 operational data centres. Roughly 300 are under construction. And approximately 1,140 are planned (Ember, 2026). In February 2026, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim confirmed that all … Read more
Vietnam enacted its Law on Artificial Intelligence on 10 December 2025. It took effect on 1 March 2026. In just over three months, the country went from having no dedicated … Read more
China’s daily AI token usage surpassed 140 trillion in March 2026 — a 1,000-fold increase in two years. Chinese models now account for four of the top five most-used globally. This is a comprehensive analysis of the models, chips, state strategy, cost advantages, and deployment patterns driving China’s AI machine — and what it means for Asia, the West, and global markets.