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How many Q2 2026 Malaysia Digital approvals were primarily AI companies?
MDEC reported 44 primarily AI companies among 119 Malaysia Digital Status approvals in Q2 2026.
SHOW ME THE DATAQ2 2026 · Q2 2026 approved companies
Q2 2026
1Other approved companies75Q2 2026 approved companies
2Primarily AI44Q2 2026 approved companies
MDECMalaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)Q2 2026 approved companies
SourceMalaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) ↗Q2 2026 figures · release Sep 2026HIGH CONFIDENCE
Method & notes
This is an ecosystem measure; PulseKita deliberately does not label it as national LLM adoption.
METHOD & LIMITATIONSHow the numbers were calculated
PulseKita transcribes MDEC's Q2 2026 Malaysia Digital Status approval counts and separates companies described as primarily involved in artificial intelligence from the remaining approvals.
- 44 of 119 approvals were primarily AI companies, about 37.0%.
- MDEC reported more than 7,000 companies awarded Malaysia Digital Status and more than 4,400 active companies as of Q2 2026.
- The 119 Q2 approvals were projected to contribute RM133.6 billion in investment and 4,922 jobs over their first five years.
- This measures the Malaysia Digital company ecosystem, not consumer LLM usage, model tokens, API traffic or market share by AI provider.
Evidence trail
EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology
- 1Primary evidenceMalaysia Digital Status
- 2TransformationPulseKita transcribes MDEC's Q2 2026 Malaysia Digital Status approval counts and separates companies described as primarily involved in artificial intelligence from the remaining approvals.
- 3Published visualRanked snapshot
Source
HIGH CONFIDENCEfirst party primary
COVERAGEQ2 2026
UNITQ2 2026 approved companies
SOURCEofficial publication
UPDATEDQ2 2026 figures · release Sep 2026