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
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.
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
The Asia-Pacific AI market hit USD 102 billion in 2025 and is on course for USD 735 billion by 2030. East Asian institutions hold 82.4% of all global AI patents. Here are the 10 key findings from the AI Ecosystem Across Asia 2026 report.
What Is DeepSeek and Why Did It Disrupt Global AI Economics? DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company founded in May 2023 with approximately 200 employees, triggered a global repricing of AI … Read more