What is the State of Ecommerce Across Asia in 2026? A Comprehensive 15-Market Tracker
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 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.
India’s digital economy reached an estimated $402 billion in 2025, accounting for 11.74% of GDP and growing faster than virtually any comparable market on earth (MEITY, 2025). With 1.03 billion … Read more
Can India Become the World’s AI Inferencing Capital? India’s AI market reached USD 22.85 billion in 2025, making it the second-largest in Asia-Pacific behind China, and is projected to grow … Read more
How Big Is Asia’s AI Market in 2026? Asia-Pacific’s artificial intelligence market reached an estimated USD 102 billion in 2025 and is projected to grow to between USD 735 billion … Read more
Why Is Every Asian Country Building Its Own AI Model? Sovereign AI — the development of domestically controlled artificial intelligence infrastructure, models, and data pipelines — has become the defining … Read more
Everyone loves the UPI story. And why wouldn’t they? A country that had 190 million unbanked adults a decade ago now runs the world’s largest real-time payments network. The Unified … Read more