Revenue Growth Trend of China's AIGC Overseas (2019-2024)
Over the past six years, China's AIGC overseas revenue surged from under $100 million to $3.5 billion, with a CAGR exceeding 130%.
Growth Overview
From 2019 to 2024, China's AIGC overseas revenue experienced explosive growth. According to industry estimates, the market size was only $0.5 billion in 2019, mainly from a few AI translation and speech synthesis tools. In 2020-2021, as multimodal models matured, overseas revenue reached $1.2 billion and $3.5 billion respectively, with accelerating growth.
Key Drivers
- Technological breakthroughs: ChatGPT sparked a global AI frenzy in late 2022, and domestic large model vendors quickly followed up, driving AIGC products overseas.
- Expanding application scenarios: From text generation to image, video, and code, overseas users' willingness to pay increased.
- Policy and capital support: The government encouraged AI companies to go global, and venture capital poured in, speeding up product iteration.
Annual Data (in $100 million)
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 35.0 |
Future Outlook
Revenue is expected to exceed $6 billion in 2025, but it faces challenges such as geopolitical risks and stricter overseas regulations. Mainstream vendors need to strengthen localization and compliance capabilities.
Related content
2024 Global AIGC Market Multi-Dimension Comparison: US, China, Europe, and Southeast Asia
This infographic compares the current status and differences among the US, China, Europe, and Southeast Asia in AIGC across four dimensions: user scale, investment, application penetration, and content output.
China's AIGC Overseas Revenue Hits $1.8B in Q1 2025, Led by Text Generation and Marketing
In Q1 2025, Chinese AIGC companies generated approximately $1.8 billion in overseas revenue, with text generation apps contributing over 40% and marketing being the largest application scenario.
2024-2025 AIGC Global Market Outlook: Forecast of Global AI Content Generation Application Scale
By 2025, Chinese enterprises' overseas AIGC application revenue is expected to reach about USD 3 billion, with the global market size around USD 12 billion, representing a CAGR of over 50%.