Hong Kong
Hong Kong is on track for a record year: about 1,446 AI-named companies in 2026 (529 already formed by 2026-05-30, up 76% on 2025).
Note: Hong Kong's register coverage begins in 2022, so figures are tracked from then. Earlier years are not a pre-ChatGPT baseline, and the growth multiple is measured from the first year of coverage, not a true 2018 start.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong: monthly AI-named company formations
New AI-named companies per month of incorporation in Hong Kong, with major AI model releases marked. The post-ChatGPT acceleration from 2023 is the shared fingerprint. (Data through May 2026.)
🇭🇰 Hong Kong: AI-named company formations by year (2026 projected)
New AI-named companies per year of incorporation. The 2026 bar is solid for companies already formed and lighter for the projected remainder at the Jan-to-May 2026-vs-2025 pace. Dashed lines mark major AI model releases.
AI-named formations in Hong Kong jumped 3.7x in a single year from 2022 to 2023, the clearest local fingerprint of the post-ChatGPT shift (ChatGPT launched November 2022).
Recent AI-named companies in Hong Kong
- Source: the Hong Kong national company register, current to 2026-05-30.
- An "AI-named company" is one whose registered name signals AI. Every candidate is classified by a language-aware model to remove false positives (for example estate agents, or words that merely contain the letters "AI").
- We hold only the AI-named cohort for Hong Kong (not the full register), so a share-of-all-formations figure is not available; the count and its growth multiple are the comparable measures.
- 2026 is projected from the Jan-to-May 2026-vs-2025 pace applied to 2025; it is an estimate, not a forecast.
- Absolute counts are not comparable across countries (registers differ in what they count); the growth multiple and, where available, the share are the portable measures.