ASEAN Tech

AI & ML 5 min OpenAI Announces First Applied AI Lab Outside the US in Singapore, Backed by S$300 Million Commitment OpenAI signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's MDDI on 20 May 2026, committing more than S$300 m... AI AI Tools Desk 1 Jun AI & ML 5 min NVIDIA Opens Singapore AI Research Lab as City-State Launches Singapore's First Multi-Operator Robotics Testbed, Planned for Later in 2026 Singapore announced two linked moves on 20 May: NVIDIA confirmed its first research lab in the city-state, and... AI AI Tools Desk 1 Jun AI & ML 8 min Global AI Adoption Hits 17.8%: Asia Leads the Charge But Digital Divide Is Widening, Microsoft Report Finds Microsoft's State of Global AI Diffusion report shows 17.8% of the working-age population now uses AI globally... AI AI Tools Desk 8 May ASEAN Tech 9 min Singapore's Semiconductor Firms Eye US Expansion as AI Boom Reshapes Global Chip Supply Chains Singaporean semiconductor companies are establishing US operations to capture AI chip supply chain opportuniti... JE Jeffrey Tan 8 May AI & ML 9 min China's Open-Source AI Sprint: Four Labs Drop Frontier Coding Models in 12 Days, Closing Gap With Western AI Four Chinese AI labs — Z.ai, MiniMax, Moonshot, and DeepSeek — released open-weights coding models within 12 d... AI AI Tools Desk 8 May ASEAN Tech 8 min From Johor to the World: How the JS-SEZ Is Becoming Southeast Asia's AI Infrastructure Powerhouse The Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone is rapidly evolving into Southeast Asia's primary AI infrastructure... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 8 May ASEAN Tech 5 min Singapore Launches Southeast Asia's First National AI Safety Framework Singapore's IMDA has unveiled a comprehensive national AI safety framework, the first in Southeast Asia. JE Jeffrey Tan 7 May AI & ML 5 min Meta AI Reaches 1 Billion Users — But Earns Just 10 Cents Per Head Meta AI reached 1 billion monthly active users but earns just $0.10 per user. Here is what Meta's AI strategy... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 30 Apr