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Companies are ranked by the AsiaAI Tech Index. Those without a rank do not publish enough financial data to be scored.
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15 companies
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| Tencent 腾讯 A Chinese internet and technology group integrating AI across its massive Weixin ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, gaming, and advertising platforms. | China | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Cloud & AI Platforms, Model Developers, Enterprise Applications | HKEX: 0700 (HKD counter) | RMB751.766 billion | #10 |
| Alibaba 阿里巴巴 A leading Chinese technology and e-commerce conglomerate that provides the Qwen model family, cloud infrastructure, and managed AI services to domestic enterprises and consumers. | China | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Cloud & AI Platforms, Model Developers, Silicon & Foundry | NYSE: BABA (ADR) | US$148B | #22 |
| Baidu 百度 Supplies a vertically integrated Chinese-language AI stack, combining foundation models, cloud infrastructure, proprietary accelerators, and autonomous driving to capture domestic enterprise and consumer AI demand. | China | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Cloud & AI Platforms, Model Developers, Edge AI & Devices | NASDAQ: BIDU (ADS) | US$18.5B | #25 |
| NAVER 네이버 South Korea's largest domestic internet-platform franchise, leveraging its vast search and commerce data to develop sovereign AI models and enterprise cloud services. | South Korea | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Cloud & AI Platforms, Model Developers, Enterprise Applications | KRX: 035420 (KOSPI) | 12.035 trillion Korean won | #35 |
| Kuaishou 快手 A Beijing-based Chinese content-platform company that integrates proprietary AI models for video generation, recommendation, advertising automation, and e-commerce tooling. | China | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Model Developers, Enterprise Applications, Cloud & AI Platforms | HKEX: 01024 (HKD counter) | RMB142.776 billion | #63 |
| Xiaomi 小米 Supplies AI-enabled smartphones, connected-home devices, and electric vehicles through a massive consumer ecosystem, serving as a major deployment endpoint for edge AI models. | China | Consumer Devices & IoT | Edge AI & Devices, Cloud & AI Platforms, Silicon & Foundry | HKEX: 1810 (Hong Kong dollar trading counter) | RMB457.3 billion | #68 |
| Kingsoft Cloud 金山云 A Chinese cloud provider supplying the compute capacity, model-training platforms, and private-deployment tools that enterprises need to build and run generative AI workloads. | China | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Cloud & AI Platforms, Power & Infrastructure | NASDAQ: KC (ADS) | US$1.4B | #85 |
| Kakao 카카오 A South Korean consumer internet platform company whose AI exposure comes primarily from its control of the KakaoTalk distribution channel, its proprietary Kanana models, and its OpenAI partnership. | South Korea | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Cloud & AI Platforms, Model Developers, Enterprise Applications | KRX: 035720 (KOSPI) | Korean won 8.099 trillion | #92 |
| Meituan 美团 Operates China's dominant local-services and delivery platform, applying proprietary and open-source AI models to optimize merchant operations, consumer discovery, and physical fulfilment. | China | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Enterprise Applications, Cloud & AI Platforms | HKEX: 3690 (Hong Kong dollar counter) | RMB 364.855 billion | #109 |
| Rakuten 楽天 Rakuten is a diversified Japanese digital ecosystem that integrates proprietary Japanese-language AI models and agents into its commerce, fintech, and mobile-network services. | Japan | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Cloud & AI Platforms, Enterprise Applications, Model Developers | TSE: 4755 (Prime Market) | 2.497 trillion yen | #125 |
| Coupang 쿠팡 A dominant South Korean e-commerce and logistics platform that uses machine learning for fulfillment and offers GPU-as-a-Service through its cloud computing division. | South Korea | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Enterprise Applications, Cloud & AI Platforms, AI Server Hardware | NYSE: CPNG (Class A common stock) | US$34.5B | #129 |
| LY Corporation LINEヤフー LY Corporation operates Japan's major consumer internet platforms, integrating AI assistants into messaging, search, and commerce to leverage its vast local data ecosystem. | Japan | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Cloud & AI Platforms, Enterprise Applications | TSE: 4689 (Prime Market) | 2.036 trillion Japanese yen | #130 |
| Mercari メルカリ A dominant Japanese consumer-to-consumer marketplace leveraging proprietary transaction data and cloud AI to improve resale listings, search, fraud prevention, and credit decisions. | Japan | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Cloud & AI Platforms, Model Developers | TSE: 4385 (Prime Market) | 229.293 billion yen | #134 |
| PDD Holdings 拼多多 An international commerce-platform group operating Pinduoduo and Temu, utilizing data-driven ranking, recommendation, and advertising algorithms to optimize its massive consumer marketplaces. | China | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Enterprise Applications, Cloud & AI Platforms | NASDAQ: PDD (ADS) | US$61.8B | #135 |
| ByteDance 字节跳动 A dominant global consumer internet platform and foundation-model developer that drives massive AI compute demand through its applications, recommendation systems, and reported 150 billion yuan infrastructure budget. | China | Internet Platforms & Cloud | Cloud & AI Platforms, Model Developers, Edge AI & Devices | Private company | — |
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