China-approved AI services keep multiplying toward 1,300
China moved from 64 registered public AI services at the end of 2023 to 988 by mid-2026, turning AI rollout into a regulated mass-production system.
Picture opening an app in China and seeing AI inside shopping, schoolwork, banking, phones, cars, and local services — but each public tool has first passed through a national gate.
China added more than 900 registered public AI services in about two and a half years.
- required filing before public AI rollout
- domestic platforms adding AI into everyday services
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If China shapes the apps, devices, and factories around you, you are not just watching better chatbots; you are watching a country turn AI into everyday infrastructure.
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The numbers count generative AI services that completed filing with China's Cyberspace Administration or local cyberspace authorities before public-facing use. China Daily, citing the CAC's 2024 informatization report, reported 64 services by December 2023, 188 by August 2024, and 302 by December 2024. Xinhua and CAC-linked notices reported 346 by March 31, 2025; CAC reported 538 by August 31, 2025, 611 by November 1, 2025, 868 by April 30, 2026, and 988 by June 30, 2026. The 2026 projection is a simple pace-based call from the official 2025–2026 run rate, not a government target. Caveat: filings are not the same as active users or model quality, and rule changes could move the count up or down.