Last Friday, Mongolian conglomerate TESO Group announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI, marking one of the country’s biggest AI-related developments to date. It is definitely the perfect time to see how AI integration is progressing in Mongolia.

 🦾 Above the Midpoint

Mongolia’s AI adoption rate rose from 12.6% in the first half of 2025 to 14.3% in the second half, up 1.7 percentage points. That placed the country 69th out of 147 economies globally. Meanwhile, Google Trends data show that average search interest related to ChatGPT over the past year reached 68 out of 100, suggesting that public interest has remained relatively stable and high.

• 🧒 Youth Usage: In Ulaanbaatar, people aged 15 to 34 use AI 3 to 4 times a week on average, with students increasingly turning to it for their studies.
• 🪢 Global average 1 in 6 people: By the second half of 2025, 16.3% of the global population had adopted AI, according to the Microsoft AI Economy Institute, with the UAE leading at 64% among 147 countries surveyed.

🤵 At the Business Level

AI adoption among Mongolian companies and institutions has accelerated over the past 2 years, particularly across conglomerates, fintech, healthcare, media, and HR. TESO Group recently said it will deploy OpenAI’s technology across manufacturing, supply chains, sales, marketing, R&D, customer service, finance, and internal systems to improve productivity, decision-making, and innovation.

• 😎 Before that, AND Global and its subsidiary, AND Solutions, emerged as early Microsoft AI partners in Mongolia, launching Mindox, an AI-powered document-processing platform built on and optimized for Azure, which was later introduced to financial institutions in the Philippines and other Asian markets.
• 🩺 In healthcare, AI Medi Mongolia is working with South Korea’s NTL Healthcare to roll out CerviCare AI for early cervical cancer detection, while Tavan Bogd’s Nura Mongolia has been expanding advanced AI-based health services, including AI-assisted CT imaging.

Overall… From SMEs adopting AI chatbots and AI agents to large conglomerates partnering with global technology leaders, AI integration is clearly gaining momentum in Mongolia. In the years ahead, the use of AI across the business landscape is likely to expand further, intensifying competition and reshaping how companies operate.