{"id":10056,"date":"2025-11-06T01:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-ai-app-start-ups-lag-behind-us-peers-in-making-money-report\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:50:30","slug":"chinese-ai-app-start-ups-lag-behind-us-peers-in-making-money-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-ai-app-start-ups-lag-behind-us-peers-in-making-money-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AI app start-ups lag behind US peers in making money: report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China’s start-up<\/span> developers of artificial intelligence<\/span> applications significantly lag behind their US counterparts in global recurring revenue, making overseas expansion the default strategy for these mainland firms, according to a new report.<\/div>\n
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As of August, only four of the world’s top 100 AI apps<\/span> from private companies by annual recurring revenue (ARR) were Chinese, according to a report jointly released last week by domestic research firm Unique Research and San Francisco-based consultancy Tech Buzz China.<\/div>\n
The four Chinese players – Glority, Plaud, ByteDance<\/span> and Zuoyebang – generated an estimated US$447 million in total ARR from their AI apps, which accounted for 1.23 per cent of the top 100 list’s US$36.4 billion total. This group excluded apps from publicly listed tech giants such as Alibaba Group Holding<\/span> and Tencent Holdings<\/span>. Alibaba owns the Post.<\/div>\n

The disparity between Chinese and US app developers had to do with structural factors in the world’s second-largest economy, where start-ups prioritised short-term sources of revenue such as public-sector projects, according to Rui Ma, founder of Tech Buzz China.<\/p>\n

“It’s much more capital intensive to go after these global consumers and enterprises,” she said, adding that it was more difficult for Chinese start-ups to raise funds at home than those in the US.<\/p>\n

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While the report defined Chinese start-ups as those based on the mainland, note-taking AI app developer Plaud was categorised as Chinese even though it was registered in the US.<\/p>\n

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Chinese developers Glority, Plaud, ByteDance and Zuoyebang generated an estimated US$447 million in total annual recurring revenue from their AI apps as of August. Photo: Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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China’s start-up developers of artificial intelligence applications significantly lag behind their US counterparts in global recurring revenue, making overseas expansion the default strategy for these mainland firms, according to a new report. Advertisement As of August, only four of the world’s top 100 AI apps from private companies by annual recurring revenue (ARR) were Chinese,…<\/p>\n

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