BRICS AI Machine Learning Market Size and Forecast by Offering, Hardware, Solution, Service, Application, Deployment Model, Organization Size, and End User Industry: 2019-2033

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Industry Assessment Overview

Industry Findings: The bloc’s emerging emphasis on a shared AI-governance and development agenda is reframing how member countries view AI adoption — not as isolated national efforts, but as a collective South-South cooperation tool. In 2025, under Brazil’s chairmanship, BRICS explicitly placed AI governance, inclusion, and digital-economy cooperation at the center of its agenda, arguing that AI “must not be a privilege for the few” but a public good across developing economies. That collective framing increases pressure on vendors to offer solutions that respect data sovereignty, inclusivity, portability across jurisdictions, and compliance with a yet-to-finalize multilateral governance baseline.

Industry Progression: The 2025 BRICS Summit materialised high-level declarations into concrete cooperation frameworks: in July 2025, BRICS leaders adopted a declaration on AI governance calling for equitable, inclusive AI access and cooperation, plus multi-country collaboration on AI research and capacity-building. This progression creates a structural demand for cross-border AI infrastructure, shared standards, and interoperable compliance tools among member nations — laying groundwork for trans-BRICS ML deployments and collaboration.

Industry Player Insights: As BRICS repositions itself as an "AI-cooperation bloc," key vendors and national champions across member states are aligning offerings to meet bloc-wide requirements: global hyperscalers, regional cloud providers, and local AI firms must now price in multi-jurisdiction compliance, data-sovereignty, and cross-border delivery. Vendors that already have a presence in multiple BRICS markets — or can quickly integrate to provide residency-aware, governance-compliant ML stacks — are being favoured in tenders spanning multiple BRICS countries. This shift is reshaping vendor mapping and raising the bar for production-grade, compliant AI services across the bloc.