DeepSeek is a Hangzhou-based AI research lab, founded in May 2023 by hedge fund billionaire Liang Wenfeng,[1] that has become the most-used open-weight model developer in the world. As of … Read more
Qwen is Alibaba Cloud’s family of large language models — and, by the numbers that matter for an ecosystem, the most consequential open-source AI family in the world. As of … Read more
Moonshot AI is the Beijing-based lab behind Kimi, the chatbot that in July 2026 did what DeepSeek did in January 2025: wiped trillions off Western tech stocks with a single … Read more
Dana has done something none of its Indonesian competitors have managed: it’s built a user base approaching 200 million[1] — roughly 70% of Indonesia’s population[1] — without being embedded inside … Read more
OVO is one of Indonesia’s four dominant e-wallets — alongside GoPay, Dana, and ShopeePay — serving over 110 million registered users across 300 cities.[1] It’s also, since October 2021, a … Read more
GCash is the Philippines’ most popular e-wallet and the financial infrastructure for a country where about two-thirds of adults lacked a bank account in 2017[1] and only 50.2% had an … Read more
ZaloPay isn’t trying to be Vietnam’s everything app. It’s trying to be the payments layer inside the app that already is — Zalo, the messaging platform used by 98% of … Read more
MoMo isn’t just Vietnam’s most popular e-wallet. It’s the country’s definitive case study in how a mobile payments startup can grow into a full-blown financial super app — and finally … Read more
Razorpay is India’s dominant full-stack payments and business banking platform, processing an annualised total payment volume (TPV) of $180 billion[1] across more than 12 million merchants.[1] Co-founded in 2014 by … Read more
PhonePe processes nearly half of all digital payments in India, and it’s not particularly close. As of December 2025, the Walmart-backed fintech held a 48.7% share of UPI transaction value … Read more
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