Global Adventure: How Chinese AI is Conquering the World Market

With the rapid development of technology, AI (Artificial Intelligence) has become one of the most transformative forces. On March 6th, A16Z released the fourth edition of "The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps," ranking the top 50 AI web products and mobile applications based on Similarweb's monthly unique visits and Sensor Tower's monthly active users.

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Chinese products such as Doubao AI, Meitu Camera, DeepSeek, and Quark AI stood out. Notably, Tencent Yuanbao and Tongyi also have recently delivered an outstanding marketing performance.

1. Trends in User Acquisition for Chinese AI Applications Going Global

For new market entrants, user acquisition is a crucial strategy to break market barriers and build a user base. It enables rapid reach to target audiences, especially in competitive markets.

Chatbots (ChatBot)

Doubao & CiCi

ByteDance launched Doubao and CiCi AI on Nov, 2023, targeting domestic and overseas markets respectively. Doubao quickly became one of the largest AI applications in China by heavily advertising on ByteDance's own platforms. CiCi AI, focusing on Asia, Africa, and South America, successfully entered overseas markets leveraging TikTok and other ByteDance apps.

Tongyi

As a language model launched by Alibaba, it initially had a conservative promotion strategy but regained market attention at the beginning of 2025 through new technology and resonable marketing strategies, significantly increasing ad spending.

Tencent Yuanbao

Leveraging DeepSeek's open-source technology and saturated marketing, Tencent Yuanbao rapidly topped the China AppStore free download rankings, greatly expanding its user base.

According to data disclosed by AppGrowing, as of February 27th, Tencent Yuanbao spent a total of 281 million yuan on advertising within 27 days. This substantial investment delivered immediate results.

Design Tools

Meitu Camera

Focused on Southeast Asia and South America, Meitu Camera, integrating AI technologies, significantly boosted its brand influence through collaborations with well-recognied local IPs and abundant ads on social media.

In 2024, Meitu Camera focused its overseas promotion on mainstream platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Google Ads. Leveraging localized operations, it launched extensive ad campaigns across multiple channels.

Kling AI

Kling AI, a video generation tool, was launched by Kwai on July, 2024. It gained great popularity from fields including E-commerce, live streaming, and short play in Southeast Asia and Brazil, which are all parts of Kwai's global business.

By integrating Kwai's global presence, Kling AI is emerging as a major innovative force in the video generation field, bringing more possibilities to global users and industries.

ViVa Cut

By integrating generative AI technology, ViVa Cut gained traction through ads on Facebook, Google Ads and particularly TikTok in recent years. With the global rise TikTok, Viva Cut gained traffic benefits. By advertising on main advertising platforms, it showcased its core features and use cases, successfully attracting a large user base. It already achieved 230 million global downloads so far.

2. Flat Ads and AI Integration Driving Mutual Growth

In the era of digital marketing, the deep integration of Flat Ads and AI has become a key driver of mutual growth. Empowered by AI, Flat Ads not only achieves precision and intelligence in ad delivery but also opens up more possibilities for AI applications expanding globally.

Flat Ads Boosts Global Growth for AI Applications

Flat Ads, with 700 million exclusive traffic resources covering 200+ countries and regions, provides efficient and precise user acquisition services for Chinese AI applications, enhancing their international visibility and market share.

AI Empowers Flat Ads for Safe and Efficient Advertising

Based on AI technology, Flat Ads can process and analyze large amounts of data in real time, creating accurate user profiles to help advertisers target audiences effectively. Besides, combined with data analysis, Flat Ads also enables to adjust the advertising strategy in real-time to ensure the high efficiency of all parts.

Real-Time Data Analysis

Based on AI technology, Flat Ads can process and analyze large amounts of data in real time, creating accurate user profiles to help advertisers target audiences effectively. Besides, combined with data analysis, Flat Ads also enables to adjust the advertising strategy in real-time to ensure the high efficiency of all parts.

RTB Intelligent Bidding

AI technology supports Flat Ads to dynamically adjusts bidding strategies to secure ad placements at optimal prices.

Risk Monitoring

Integrating AI tools, Flat Ads monitors ad content and display environments in an efficient way so as to ensure compliance and safety, protecting brand reputation.

Conclusion

AI is transforming the advertising industry. Flat Ads continues to explore the "Advertising + AI" model, optimizing marketing processes to drive efficiency, precision, and transparency in the industry, while providing high-quality services for AI applications expanding globally.