🌏Asia
is #2 in AI funding.

Asia is a top-3 power in the global AI race — $29.7B of all-time AI capital across 89 orgs, and 737 MW of operational AI compute across 16 datacenters.

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Top 9 of 89 AI orgs tile area ≈ funding

#1 $3.9B #2 $3.0B #3 $2.6B #4 $2.0B #5 $2.0B #6 $1.5B #7 $1.4B #8 $1.4B #9 $1.3B

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ORG LATEST FUNDING

Moonshot AI 🇨🇳 Beijing

Founded in March 2023 by Tsinghua-trained, ex-Google Brain researcher Yang Zhilin…

May 2026

$3.9B

Horizon Robotics 🇨🇳 Beijing

A Beijing automotive-AI chip company founded in 2015 by Yu Kai, the former head of…

$3.0B

Khazna Data Centers 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi

An Abu Dhabi-headquartered hyperscale data-center operator founded in 2012 and now wholly…

Sep 2025

$2.6B

SenseTime 🇨🇳 Shanghai

A Chinese AI company founded in October 2014 by Tang Xiaoou, then chair of information…

$2.0B

Yotta Data Services 🇮🇳 Mumbai

Feb 2026

$2.0B

G42 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi

An Abu Dhabi-based AI and cloud-computing holding company founded in 2018 and chaired by…

$1.5B

Megvii 🇨🇳 Beijing

A Beijing-based computer-vision company founded in 2011 by Tsinghua Yao Class graduates…

$1.4B

WeRide 🇨🇳 Guangzhou

A Guangzhou-based autonomous driving company founded in 2017 by Tony Han, formerly chief…

$1.4B

Pony.ai 🇨🇳 Guangzhou

A Chinese autonomous driving company founded in December 2016 by ex-Baidu engineers James…

$1.3B

Momenta 🇨🇳 Suzhou

A Suzhou-based autonomous-driving company founded in 2016 by Cao Xudong, the former head…

$1.2B

Baichuan AI 🇨🇳 Beijing

A Beijing-based LLM company founded in April 2023 by Wang Xiaochuan, the Tsinghua-trained…

Jul 2024

$1.0B

4Paradigm 🇨🇳 Beijing

A Beijing-based enterprise AI platform founded in 2014 by Dai Wenyuan and other former…

$1.0B

Cambricon 🇨🇳 Beijing

A Beijing-based AI chip designer founded in 2016 by brothers Chen Tianshi and Chen Yunji,…

$1.0B

Rebellions 🇰🇷 Seongnam

A Seoul AI-inference-chip company founded in 2020 and merged with SK Telecom's Sapeon…

Jan 2024

$850M

StepFun 🇨🇳 Shanghai

A Shanghai AI lab founded in April 2023 by Jiang Daxin, the former chief scientist of…

Jan 2026

$718M

DeepSeek 🇨🇳 Hangzhou

A Hangzhou LLM lab founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, also founder of the quantitative…

$704M

Biren Technology 🇨🇳 Shanghai

A Shanghai-based fabless GPU designer founded in 2019 by Lingjie Xu, a former Alibaba and…

$700M

Enflame Technology 🇨🇳 Shanghai

A Shanghai-based AI accelerator designer founded in March 2018 by ex-AMD engineers Zhao…

$700M

Moore Threads 🇨🇳 Beijing

A Beijing GPU-design startup founded in October 2020 by Zhang Jianzhong, the former…

$700M

Fractal Analytics 🇮🇳 Mumbai

A Mumbai- and New York-based AI and analytics firm founded in 2000 by IIM Ahmedabad…

$685M

Uniphore 🇮🇳 Bengaluru

A conversational AI company founded in 2008 by Umesh Sachdev and Ravi Saraogi, incubated…

$620M

MiniMax 🇨🇳 Shanghai

A Shanghai-based foundation-model company founded in late 2021 by ex-SenseTime…

Mar 2026

$619M

Z.ai 🇨🇳 Beijing

A Beijing LLM company spun out of Tsinghua University in 2019 by professors Tang Jie and…

Mar 2026

$558M

Black Sesame Technologies 🇨🇳 Wuhan

A Wuhan-headquartered automotive AI chip designer founded in 2016 by Liu Weihong.

$500M

Presight 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi

An Abu Dhabi-based big-data analytics and AI company founded in 2020 and majority-owned…

Mar 2023

$496M

Sakana AI 🇯🇵 Tokyo

A Tokyo-based research lab founded in 2023 by David Ha (CEO, ex-Google Brain Tokyo),…

Nov 2025

$479M

Patsnap 🇸🇬 Singapore

A Singapore-headquartered patent and IP-intelligence company founded in 2007 by Jeffrey…

$352M

Gupshup 🇮🇳 Mumbai

A conversational-AI platform founded in 2004 by Beerud Sheth (also Elance co-founder),…

$340M

AI21 Labs 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv

A Tel Aviv-based LLM lab founded in 2017 by Stanford emeritus Yoav Shoham, Ori Goshen,…

Aug 2023

$336M

01.AI 🇨🇳 Beijing

A Beijing-based LLM lab founded in March 2023 by Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of…

Aug 2024

$300M

AgiBot 🇨🇳 Shanghai

A Shanghai-based humanoid-robot company founded in 2023 by ex-Huawei "Genius Youth"…

$300M

BioMap 🇸🇬 Singapore

An AI-for-life-sciences company co-founded in 2020 by Baidu CEO Robin Li and Liu Wei…

$300M

Sarvam AI 🇮🇳 Bengaluru

A Bengaluru sovereign-AI company founded in 2023 by Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar,…

Apr 2026

$291M

FuriosaAI 🇰🇷 Seoul

A Seoul-based AI chip startup founded in 2017 designing inference accelerators that…

Jan 2024

$268M

Upstage 🇰🇷 Seoul

A Seoul-based enterprise LLM company founded in October 2020 by ex-Naver Clova AI head…

Apr 2026

$260M

Observe.AI 🇮🇳 Bengaluru

A contact-center AI company founded in 2017 in Bengaluru by Swapnil Jain, Akash Singh,…

$214M

Lunit 🇰🇷 Seoul

A Seoul medical-imaging AI company founded in 2013 by KAIST graduates Anthony Paek,…

$200M

Unitree Robotics 🇨🇳 Hangzhou

A Hangzhou-based robotics company founded in August 2016 by Wang Xingxing, who started…

$200M

Decart 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv

A Tel Aviv-based real-time generative AI lab founded in late 2023 by Dean Leitersdorf and…

$153M

Galbot 🇨🇳 Beijing

A Beijing-based humanoid robotics startup founded in 2023 by Peking University professor…

$140M

Shengshu AI 🇨🇳 Beijing

A Beijing-based generative video AI startup founded in March 2023 by a team from Tsinghua…

$140M

Wonderful 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv

A Tel Aviv-based AI customer-service startup that emerged from stealth in 2025, focused…

$134M

Preferred Networks 🇯🇵 Tokyo

A Tokyo-based deep learning company founded in March 2014 by Toru Nishikawa and Daisuke…

$130M

Vuno 🇰🇷 Seoul

A Seoul-based medical AI company founded in December 2014 by former Samsung Electronics…

$120M

Tabnine 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv

A Tel Aviv-based AI coding assistant founded in 2013 as Codota by Dror Weiss and Eran…

$102M

Yellow.ai 🇮🇳 Bengaluru

A conversational AI company founded in 2016 in Bengaluru by Raghu Ravinutala, Jaya…

$100M

Manus AI 🇸🇬 Singapore

A Singapore-headquartered AI-agent startup operated by Butterfly Effect, founded in 2022…

Apr 2025

$75M

Stockmark 🇯🇵 Tokyo

A Tokyo-based natural-language-processing startup founded in April 2016 by Tatsu Hayashi…

Oct 2024

$59M

Krutrim 🇮🇳 Bengaluru

An Indian AI startup founded in 2023 by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal, headquartered in…

Jan 2024

$50M

Qbiq 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv

An Israeli architectural-AI platform that generates optimized 2D floor plans, 3D models,…

Jan 2025

$26M

Sapient Intelligence 🇸🇬 Singapore

A Singapore-based AGI research startup with offices in San Francisco and Beijing.

Jan 2025

$22M

Augmentus 🇸🇬 Singapore

A Singapore industrial-robotics company founded in 2019 by Daryl Lim, Voon Foo Chong, and…

Jul 2025

$11M

Alta 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv

A personal-styling and shopping app founded in 2023 that builds a digital closet and…

Mar 2025

$7M

AI Singapore 🇸🇬 Singapore

Singapore's national AI programme office, launched in 2017 and hosted at the National…

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AI4Bharat 🇮🇳 Chennai

An open-source Indic-language AI lab at IIT Madras, founded in 2019 by Mitesh Khapra,…

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Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 Hangzhou

Alibaba's foundation-model team based in Hangzhou.

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Ant Group InclusionAI 🇨🇳 Hangzhou

Ant Group's open-source AGI research initiative based in Hangzhou.

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Baidu ERNIE 🇨🇳 Beijing

Baidu's foundation-model team, headquartered at the Baidu Campus in Beijing.

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Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence 🇨🇳 Beijing

A Beijing-based nonprofit AI research institute (also known as Zhiyuan) founded in 2018…

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ByteDance Seed 🇨🇳 Beijing

ByteDance's foundation-model team, formed in 2023 in Beijing under former Google research…

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China Mobile 🇨🇳 Beijing

China Mobile's AI division, headquartered in Beijing, ships the Jiutian ("Nine Heavens")…

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China Telecom 🇨🇳 Beijing

China Telecom's AI arm, based in Beijing, develops the TeleChat open-weight LLM series…

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Core42 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi

A G42 subsidiary based in Abu Dhabi, launched in 2023 to deliver national-scale sovereign…

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CyberAgent AI Lab 🇯🇵 Tokyo

CyberAgent's AI research lab in Shibuya, Tokyo, founded in 2016 to power its internet…

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ELYZA 🇯🇵 Tokyo

A Tokyo-based Japanese-LLM company spun out of the University of Tokyo's Matsuo…

Apr 2024

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Hanooman 🇮🇳 Mumbai

A Mumbai-based Indic-language LLM project unveiled in 2024 by Seetha Mahalaxmi Healthcare…

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Huawei Noah's Ark Lab 🇨🇳 Shenzhen

Huawei's flagship AI research lab, established in 2012 and headquartered at the company's…

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iFlytek 🇨🇳 Hefei

A Hefei-headquartered Chinese speech-AI giant founded in 1999 by Liu Qingfeng and a group…

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Inception 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi

An Abu Dhabi-based AI subsidiary of G42, the UAE state-linked tech holding chaired by…

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Inspur 🇨🇳 Jinan

A Jinan-based Chinese server and cloud-infrastructure giant founded in 1945 and one of…

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Kakao Kanana 🇰🇷 Jeju

Kakao's in-house AI lab headquartered with the parent at the company's Jeju campus.

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KT Mi:dm 🇰🇷 Seoul

Korea Telecom's in-house LLM line, unveiled in 2023 at KT's Seoul R&D Center.

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Kunlun Tech Skywork 🇨🇳 Beijing

Skywork (Tiangong) is the AGI subsidiary of Beijing-listed Kunlun Tech (300418.

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LG AI Research 🇰🇷 Seoul

LG Group's AI research center, established in December 2020 at LG Science Park in Seoul…

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MBZUAI 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi

The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, established in 2019 in…

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MediaTek Research 🇹🇼 Hsinchu

MediaTek's AI research arm, based at the company's Hsinchu Science Park headquarters with…

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Meituan LongCat 🇨🇳 Beijing

Meituan's in-house foundation-model lab based at the delivery giant's Beijing…

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Motif Technologies 🇰🇷 Seoul

A Seoul AI startup led by CEO Lim Jeong-hwan, a former Samsung Research and…

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Naver 🇰🇷 Seongnam

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Naver HyperCLOVA 🇰🇷 Seongnam

Naver's foundation-model line, developed at the Korean internet giant's 1784 headquarters…

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NC AI 🇰🇷 Seongnam

A Seongnam-based AI subsidiary spun out of Korean game publisher NCSOFT in February 2025…

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rinna 🇯🇵 Tokyo

A Tokyo-based Japanese-language AI company that began in 2015 as Microsoft Japan's…

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Sakura Internet 🇯🇵 Osaka

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Samsung SAIT Gauss 🇰🇷 Suwon

Samsung's in-house generative AI program, developed at Samsung Advanced Institute of…

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Shanghai AI Laboratory 🇨🇳 Shanghai

A government-backed AI research institute unveiled at the World AI Conference in July…

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Taiwan AI Labs 🇹🇼 Taipei

A Taipei-based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2017 by Ethan Tu, the creator…

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Technology Innovation Institute 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi

An Abu Dhabi-based applied research center founded in 2020 under the UAE's Advanced…

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Tencent Hunyuan 🇨🇳 Shenzhen

Tencent's in-house large-model program, developed by Tencent AI Lab in Shenzhen since the…

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Xiaomi MiMo 🇨🇳 Beijing

Xiaomi's in-house LLM program, developed at the company's Beijing Haidian campus and…

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