Yes — every frontier model works natively in Japan, where Claude users rank among the world’s heaviest. Plus Japan’s 30+ domestic LLMs and a reported ¥1tn ($6bn) AI support plan.
ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are all officially blocked in mainland China. The workarounds, and why China’s own models — Doubao, DeepSeek, Qwen — now dominate.
Yes — every frontier model works natively in Singapore. But the real story is SEA-LION, the Singapore-built model family powering Southeast Asian AI.
Yes — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok all work natively in India, with cheap entry tiers. Plus India’s sovereign AI push: Sarvam, Krutrim and IndiaAI.
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.
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