A working tracker of who owns e-commerce GMV across fifteen Asian markets. Shopee, Coupang, Rakuten, Taobao, Flipkart — every leader is Asian-headquartered.
A working tracker of who owns mobile payments across fifteen Asian markets. Alipay and WeChat Pay in China, UPI in India, GCash in the Philippines, and a region-specific stack everywhere else.
How Asian gamers actually spend their time and money — by market. Mobile MOBAs in SEA, mobile gacha in Japan, premium PC and console in Korea, and a regulated mainland Chinese market that still sets the pace globally.
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
Tencent Holdings doesn’t need an introduction in Asia, but it does need a reappraisal. Founded by Pony Ma (Ma Huateng) in 1998 and headquartered in Shenzhen, the company has evolved … Read more
ByteDance doesn’t just own TikTok. It runs the most valuable private technology company on the planet — valued at US$550 billion as of February 2026 after a General Atlantic secondary … Read more
China’s digital economy reached 54 trillion yuan (~$7.5 trillion) in 2023, accounting for 43% of GDP and growing at 10.3% year-on-year — making it the world’s largest digital economy by … Read more
Why Does Asia Control the World’s AI Chip Supply Chain? Asia dominates the physical infrastructure layer of global artificial intelligence. Taiwan’s TSMC manufactures 72% of global foundry output at leading-edge … Read more