Frost & Sullivan and LeadLeo Release Landmark 2026 AI Agent Report; YouLianCloud Named Among the Chinese Agents with the Greatest Global Development Potential

On August 5, Frost & Sullivan, together with LeadLeo, released the report 2026 Best Application Practices of AI Agents in China (hereinafter referred to as "the Report") at the "Advancement and Leap of AI" sub-forum of the GIL 2026 summit. The Report projects that China's AI Agent market will grow from RMB 2.6 trillion in 2025 to RMB 20.1 trillion in 2030, representing a compound annual growth rate of 50.4% over 2025–2030. The B-side (enterprise market) is the principal variable driving market growth, contributing approximately 90% of revenue over the long term.

The Report defines an AI Agent as an intelligent system that takes a large model as its core cognitive engine and autonomously perceives, remembers, decides, interacts, and executes without continuous human intervention. The Report points out that current product innovation concentrates on four directions: the disappearing of interaction interfaces, multi-agent collaboration, deep cultivation of vertical scenarios, and lightweight architecture. Business models, meanwhile, will evolve within one to three years from single process-based charging to a dynamic hybrid model—where process-based charging secures baseline revenue and outcome-based charging is tied to business value.

In terms of evaluation mechanism, the Report adopts a four-dimensional framework covering market demand, implementation value, commercial capability, and product innovation. An expert jury composed of industry researchers, consulting teams, and industry professionals including the Frost & Sullivan expert committee conducted the selection through four stages: content submission, evaluation and research, expert assessment, and results announcement. The process ultimately produced TOP10 lists in five categories: the Most Popular Agents, the Chinese Agents with the Greatest Global Development Potential, the Most Practical Agents, the Most Innovative Agents, and the Agents with the Greatest Commercial Value Potential. Selected entries are listed in no particular order, sorted by the pinyin initials of company names.

Among these, the "Chinese Agents with the Greatest Global Development Potential" category emphasizes products' overseas expansion capability, global adaptability, and international market presence, and requires selected products to possess a broad network of international partners and the ability to attract overseas investment or gain recognition from international institutions. The Report's structural analysis of this list shows that platform-type products account for 50%, the ToB business model for 60%, and vertical scenarios for 60%. The Report interprets this as follows: the overseas advantages of Chinese Agents mainly derive from accumulated industry experience and business process know-how; scenarios such as content creation, marketing, finance, and intelligent vehicles feature well-defined deliverables and clear procurement standards, making replicable internationalization paths easier to establish.

Among the ten products ultimately selected for this list, the YouLianCloud Qilin Financial LLM is the only product focused on the financial vertical. The Report positions it as an "enterprise-grade financial Agent platform," with the stated selection reason being "its financial vertical-domain scenarios and exploration of cross-border AI." Regarding domestic market application, the Report notes on the international recognition dimension: YouLianCloud has industry accumulation and customer validation in the field of financial AI application, and its professionalism has been recognized. Regarding overseas market application, the Report notes on the overseas implementation dimension: the product meets scenario-level adaptation requirements for overseas markets and is exploring the overseas expansion of financial AI applications; and on the global adaptability dimension: the vertical financial large model is paired with an Agent framework, adapting to multilingual and local compliance needs. The Report also tags the product with five characteristic labels: "finance-native," "financial large model," "multilingual adaptation," "cross-border cloud architecture," and "fintech going global."

The other products selected for the same list are Alibaba Cloud Qoder, the Baidu Yijing All-Scenario Digital Human Platform, Manus, StepFun Step-GUI, Kuaishou's Kling AI, Marketingforce's Tforce Marketing LLM, MiniMax Agent, the SenseTime Intelligent Cockpit, and Tencent Cloud's Agent Development Platform (ADP). In terms of list composition, tracks such as programming, content creation, digital human marketing, and intelligent terminals all have representative products selected, while the finance direction is occupied by YouLianCloud.

From the Report's selection logic, it can be seen that the market application of YouLianCloud's product technology presents two dimensions, domestic and international: inward, it builds professional recognition on the strength of industry accumulation and customer validation in financial AI application; outward, with multilingual adaptation, local compliance, and a cross-border cloud architecture, it explores the overseas expansion of financial AI applications.

(This article is a paraphrase of the report 2026 Best Application Practices of AI Agents in China, jointly published by Frost & Sullivan and LeadLeo. All data and evaluations are quoted from the original report.)