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Google debuts Nano Banana 2
Google’s Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) fuses Pro‑level world knowledge, reasoning and photorealism with Flash‑speed generation, adding precise text rendering, 4K output, better character consistency and search‑grounded images.
GSMA unveils Open Telco AI push
GSMA launched Open Telco AI, a global initiative and portal of open telco models, datasets and AMD/TensorWave compute to build telco‑grade AI that can truly “speak telco” for networks and operations.
Dyna.Ai raises Series A for agents
Singapore-based Dyna.Ai closed an undisclosed eight‑figure Series A led by Lion X Ventures to scale its Agentic AI platform that turns bank and enterprise AI pilots into production systems with measurable CX, EX and ops impact.
Kampong AI: SG’s live‑work AI hub
Singapore will build Kampong AI at one‑north as its first integrated live‑work hub for AI, with offices for ~70 startups and over 200 residential units, plus events and networking spaces to anchor its AI ecosystem.
Korea–Singapore eye deeper AI, energy ti
On a state visit to Singapore, President Lee Jae Myung said he hopes to widen cooperation with Singapore in AI, renewable energy and defense, building on a new strategic partnership and shared “human capital” strengths.
SK hynix pours US15B into Yongin AI fab
SK hynix approved a 21.6T won (~US15B) new-facility investment to complete its first Yongin fab by 2030, expanding cleanrooms to mass-produce HBM and advanced DRAM as a core global AI memory hub.
Vietnam AI law kicks in first in SEA
Vietnam’s AI law, effective March 1, is Southeast Asia’s first comprehensive framework, mandating human oversight, labels for deepfakes, disclosure of AI agents, and a national AI compute center and Vietnamese LLMs.
OpenAI raises US110B, Amazon leads
OpenAI is raising US110B at a US730B pre-money valuation, with Amazon investing US50B and Nvidia and SoftBank US30B each, deepening an AWS pact that adds US100B in cloud spend over coming years.
OpenAI inks Pentagon AI deal
OpenAI signed a defense deal to run its models in the Pentagon’s classified systems just hours after President Trump blacklisted rival Anthropic and ordered agencies to halt use of its AI.
Trump bans Anthropic AI in gov’t
President Trump ordered all US federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI after the startup refused to relax guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, prompting the Pentagon to label it a supply-chain risk
US presses Anthropic on military use
The US is threatening to cancel Anthropic’s US 200M Pentagon deal and label it a “supply chain risk” unless it lets Claude run widely on a new military AI network, testing its ethical limits.
Perplexity unveils multi-model Computer
Perplexity AI has launched Perplexity Computer, a cloud “digital worker” that orchestrates 19 specialized models and autonomous agents to turn natural-language goals into end‑to‑end projects across research, coding, design, deployment, and reporting.
Nvidia buys Israeli data startup Illumex
Nvidia is acquiring Israeli startup Illumex for about US 75M to add an AI-powered semantic data layer that unifies enterprise data across silos with built‑in governance, strengthening its stack for training and running agentic AI on corporate data.
MatX raises US 500M to rival Nvidia
MatX, founded by former Google TPU engineers, raised a US 500M Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness to build AI chips it claims will train and serve LLMs 10x more efficiently than Nvidia GPUs, with first TSMC-made parts
RLWRLD adds US 26M to scale robot AI
Seoul-based RLWRLD raised a US 26M Seed 2, bringing total seed funding to about US41M, to scale “physical AI” robotics foundation models trained directly inside live industrial sites and expand RX projects across Asia, North America and Japan.
OpenAI poaches Meta infra leader
OpenAI has hired Ruoming Pang, a top AI infrastructure leader at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs and former head of models at Apple, after months of aggressive courting, underscoring the escalating Silicon Valley AI talent war.
S2.dev raises US3.85M for streams
YC-backed S2.dev raised US3.85M led by Accel to grow its serverless streaming datastore for collaborative, agent-based and multiplayer apps, positioning durable streams as a core cloud primitive.
Tattvam AI raises US1.7M for chip design
IIT Madras–founded Tattvam AI raised US 1.7M pre‑seed led by Seedcamp to build an AI reasoning layer over Cadence/Synopsys tools that slashes manual physical‑design effort and shrinks custom‑silicon cycles from years to weeks.
Diaflow raises seed for agentic workflow
Singapore’s Diaflow secured seed funding led by Insignia Ventures to scale its autonomous, multi‑agent workflow automation platform that lets teams describe goals in natural language while AI executes securely end‑to‑end.
AMD–Meta sign US 60B AI chip deal
AMD will supply up to US 60B of MI450‑class AI chips and CPUs over five years to Meta, giving the social giant 6GW of compute and warrants for up to 10% of AMD stock as it diversifies beyond Nvidia.
Eezee raises US 5M for AI procurement
Singapore-based Eezee raised US 5M pre‑Series B led by Korea Investment Partners to expand across Southeast Asia and scale its RFQBot and ProcureFlow AI tools for long‑tail enterprise procurement.
SambaNova raises US350M for SN50
Intel‑backed SambaNova raised US350M led by Vista and Cambium to develop its SN50 AI inference chip, expand SambaCloud, and deepen a multi‑year heterogeneous AI infra partnership with Intel and SoftBank data centers.
Kris@Work raises US3M for GTM AI
Kris@Work raised US3M seed led by Info Edge Ventures to build an agentic AI SaaS “work companion” for GTM teams, replacing fragmented sales and SDR tools and expanding into the US market.
Mojro raises US3M for AI logistics
Bengaluru-based Mojro raised US3M led by IAN Alpha Fund to expand its AI-driven B2B logistics SaaS in the US and Southeast Asia, and bolster product, engineering and sales teams.
AI² Robotics raises ¥1B, hits ¥10B
China’s AI² Robotics raised over RMB 1B Series B at a RMB 10B+ valuation, positioning it as the country’s “most Tesla‑like” embodied AI startup building mass‑manufactured, productivity‑oriented general‑purpose robots.
Nebius–Tavily tie cloud to agents
Nebius’ Tavily acquisition links its fast‑growing AI cloud and data‑centre footprint with agentic search for trading and coding, aiming to drive higher‑value, stickier workloads from customers like Meta and Microsoft.
Haveli takes majority stake in Sirion
AI-native CLM vendor Sirion has closed a majority investment from Haveli Investments to speed product innovation and global go‑to‑market, shifting contracts from static documents to executable, AI-driven workflows.
Chai hits US68M ARR, stresses safety
Social AI platform Chai tripled revenue for three years to reach US68M ARR and a US1.4B valuation, and is rolling out suicide‑ and self‑harm‑detection, moderation and anonymised logging aligned with EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF.
ByteDance ramps up US AI hiring
ByteDance’s Seed AI team is hiring for ~100 US roles to build LLMs, gen‑AI media and drug‑discovery models, intensifying US–China AI rivalry just as Hollywood and lawmakers scrutinise its Seedance video tool.
Anthropic debuts Claude Code Security
Anthropic launched Claude Code Security, a Claude Code feature that scans entire codebases like a human researcher, finds complex bugs, and proposes patches while keeping humans in control, now in limited enterprise preview.
Polsky–IDTA launch India deeptech accel
UChicago’s Polsky Center and the India Deep Tech Alliance are launching a 10‑week India Deep Tech Accelerator with IIT Bombay, Delhi and Madras to help IIT startups globalise, fundraise and commercialise in sectors like AI, chips and robotics.
InScope raises US14.5M for AI reporting
InScope raised a US14.5M Series A led by Norwest to automate financial statement prep, using AI to handle checks, formatting and narratives so accountants can close faster with fewer spreadsheets and Word docs.
Reliance’s US110B India AI infra bet
Mukesh Ambani unveiled a ₹10T (~US110B) plan over seven years to build AI compute in India, funding gigawatt‑scale data centers, edge networks and Jio‑integrated AI services powered by green energy.
Yotta plans US2B Nvidia AI hub
India’s Yotta Data Services will build a US2B AI compute hub using Nvidia’s new Blackwell Ultra chips, including a US1B, four-year deal to host one of APAC’s largest DGX Cloud clusters.
BharatGen debuts Param2 17B MoE
BharatGen launched Param2, a 17B‑parameter multilingual MoE foundation model optimized for Indic languages, trained on NVIDIA’s stack and released openly to power sovereign AI across governance, education, health, agri and enterprise.
Sarvam rolls out 2 India LLMs
Sarvam launched 30B and 105B‑parameter India‑trained LLMs with 22 Indic languages and voice‑first support, claiming DeepSeek‑class reasoning at lower cost and backing India’s sovereign AI mission.
Robo.ai–DaBoss JV for embodied data
Robo.ai and DaBoss.AI are forming a UAE-based joint venture to build a distributed embodied-intelligence data platform that cuts cost, scales collection and standardises compliance for robotics and physical-world AI models.
India’s 3‑hour AI takedown rule
India’s new IT rules cut platform takedown time for “unlawful” or harmful AI content from 36 hours to 3, sparking industry worries over feasibility, free speech and bureaucratic overreach.
AI HBM crunch lifts phone prices
A severe DRAM and NAND crunch, driven by AI HBM demand, is set to push Asia’s smartphone prices up about 7% in 2026, hitting sub‑US 200 budget models and Chinese OEMs like Oppo, Vivo and Honor hardest.
India plans Vizag AI ‘data city’
Andhra Pradesh is pitching Visakhapatnam as a 100km‑radius AI “data city”, anchored by US 15B Google and US 11B Reliance–Brookfield–Digital Realty data‑centre plans and submarine cable links to Singapore.
Ando raises US4M for hourly AI
San Francisco startup Ando raised a US 4M seed led by Slow Ventures to expand its AI forecasting and scheduling platform that makes hourly work more stable for workers and more efficient for employers.
Blackstone leads US 1.2B Neysa bet
Blackstone is investing US 1.2B in Mumbai AI cloud startup Neysa—half equity, half debt—at a US1.4B valuation, taking a majority stake to fund 20,000+ GPUs and India‑focused AI infra growth.
OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI
Sam Altman says OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to lead next‑gen personal agents, with the viral open-source agent framework moving into an in‑house “foundation” OpenAI will keep supporting.
India–UAE pitch human‑centric AI
India and the UAE are deepening an AI partnership around “human‑centric” principles, tying joint data centers, skills, governance and the India‑AI Impact Summit 2026 to social welfare and ethical deployment.
Musk eyes lunar AI sat factory
36Kr’s late brief covers Qianwen hitting 73.5M DAU, Wrtn’s US IPO ambitions, and Elon Musk’s plan for a moon-based AI satellite factory with a mass driver to beam compute back to xAI.
SuperX–TFC JV for AI optics
SuperX AI and TFC are forming SuperX Optical Communications in Singapore to deliver end‑to‑end optical interconnects for next‑gen AI data centers, easing bandwidth bottlenecks in massive GPU clusters worldwide.
Qualcomm launches APAC edge AI push
Qualcomm’s 2026 AI Program for Innovators – APAC opens to startups in Japan, Singapore and South Korea, offering hardware, mentorship and up to USUS15K in grants and IP support for edge‑AI products.
Simile raises US100M for AI sims
Stanford-rooted startup Simile raised US100M led by Index to run AI simulations of “digital people” that help enterprises predict customer behavior, product reactions and even earnings‑call questions.
Galaxea raises ¥1B, hits unicorn
Embodied robotics startup Galaxea raised ¥1B Series B at nearly ¥10B valuation, joining China’s humanoid “unicorn” club as it scales VLA models, humanoids and dexterous hands for industry pilots.
Anthropic raises US30B at US380B
Anthropic closed a US30B Series G led by GIC and Coatue at a US380B valuation, funding frontier research, infra and Claude product expansion as run‑rate revenue hits US14B with 10x annual growth.
ElevenLabs raises US500M at US11B
Voice AI unicorn ElevenLabs raised US 500M led by Sequoia at an US11B valuation, tripling in a year, to expand globally and move beyond voice into multimodal agents that talk, type and act.
Google boosts SG AI, R&D push
Google is expanding AI investment in Singapore with more R&D roles, an AI-focused Cloud Engineering Center, healthcare AI collaborations, Southeast Asian language data funding and Majulah AI skills programs.
1Buy.AI raises ₹32.5 Cr seed
Delhi-based 1Buy.AI raised ₹32.5 Cr seed led by 100Unicorns to scale its AI-powered electronics procurement SaaS, which cuts sourcing costs and manages supply-chain risk and excess inventory.
ThirdAI raises US3M for causal fab AI
ThirdAI raised US3M seed co-led by Endiya Partners and Capria Ventures to deploy a causal AI–driven root-cause analysis copilot that cuts semiconductor fab diagnostic time by up to 80% and boosts yield.
Nebius to buy Tavily for agents
Nebius will acquire agentic search startup Tavily to plug real-time web search into its AI cloud, pairing Tavily with Token Factory inference so customers can build grounded autonomous agents on a single stack.
Crypto.com’s US70M AI.com gamble
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek bought AI.com for US70M in crypto, the richest domain sale ever, and will launch a personal AI agent for messaging, apps and trading during the Super Bowl.
Labelbox buys Upcraft for Alignerr
Labelbox acquired AI sales-automation startup Upcraft to plug its agentic tech into Alignerr, automating outreach and engagement across 1M+ experts who label and evaluate data for frontier AI labs.
Databricks raises US5B at US134B
Databricks raised about US5B in equity plus US2B in new debt at a US134B valuation, betting on surging enterprise AI demand while public software stocks sell off.
Runway pivots to world models
Runway raised US315M at a US5.3B valuation to shift from pure video generation to training large “world models” that learn physics and cause‑and‑effect for simulation-heavy use cases in robotics, AVs and healthcare.
Gobi backs MY health data startup
Gobi Partners has led a pre-seed round in Malaysian healthtech Valiance Health, which uses AI to standardise hospital data and power value-based healthcare analytics for providers, insurers and regulators.
G42–FPT plan 3 Vietnam AI DCs
Abu Dhabi’s G42, Vietnam’s FPT Corp and Viet Thai Group signed a framework deal to build three AI-ready data centers in Vietnam, backed by up to USUS1B in cloud and AI consumption commitments to position the country as a regional tech hub.
BotGauge AI bags US2M for QA
BotGauge AI raised US2M led by Surface Ventures to scale its autonomous QA-as-a-service platform, using AI agents plus expert oversight to own software quality and keep pace with AI-native dev velocity.
Lex on AI: Scaling, RL, AGI Paths
Lex Fridman, Sebastian Raschka and Nathan Lambert unpack 2025–26 AI: scaling laws, RLVR vs RLHF, tool use, open vs closed models, Chinese LLMs, data quality, burnout culture, and how post-training fuels “reasoning” models like o1 and DeepSeek.
Musk: AI Will Move Off-Planet
Elon Musk predicts that within ~36 months, space will become the cheapest and most scalable place to run AI, using Starship-launched orbital data centers powered by ultra-cheap solar.
SpaceX–xAI Merge in US1.25T Deal
SpaceX is acquiring Elon Musk’s xAI in a share-swap valuing the combined company at US1.25T, the largest merger ever, to fund Grok and build “orbital data centers” ahead of a blockbuster SpaceX IPO.
AWS Bets US200B on AI & Chips
AWS Q4 revenue jumped 24% to US35.6B as AI demand lifted cloud and custom chips past a US10B run rate, while Andy Jassy defended Amazon’s record US200B 2026 capex plan focused on AI and infrastructure.
AIMS Plans 200MW AI DC in Cyberjaya
AIMS has bought 10 acres in Cyberjaya to build a USUS1B, up‑to‑200MW AI‑ready data centre by 2027, boosting Malaysia’s role as a regional cloud and AI hub with efficient, sustainable infrastructure.
KKR, Singtel Buy STT GDC for SUS13.8B
A KKR–Singtel consortium will acquire the remaining 82% of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres from ST Telemedia for SUS6.6B, implying a SUS13.8B enterprise value and giving KKR 75% and Singtel 25%.
TakeTwo Raises Pre-Seed at ₹100 Cr
AI-native film studio TakeTwo raised a pre-seed round at a ₹100 crore valuation from Afore Capital and Inovia VC to bring full‑stack, AI‑driven VFX and visual storytelling to India’s film industry.
Accel Backs Fibr AI’s US5.7M Seed
Accel led Fibr AI’s US5.7M seed to turn static enterprise websites into one‑to‑one, agent‑driven experiences, replacing agency‑heavy personalization with autonomous optimization that’s already winning bank and healthcare customers.
Loop AI Raises US14M Series A
San Francisco–based Loop AI raised a US14M Series A led by Nyca Partners to bring agentic, enterprise‑grade AI to restaurant and retail back offices, with ex‑Google/GoDaddy exec Osama Bedier joining the board.
Fractal Targets US1.6B AI IPO
India’s Fractal Analytics is targeting up to a 144.5B rupee (US1.6B) valuation in a downsized IPO, aiming to be the country’s first pure‑play listed AI firm with pricing kept conservative to woo new investors.
Benchmark Doubles Down on Cerebras
Benchmark quietly raised two “Infrastructure” vehicles totaling US225M to pour into Cerebras’ new US1B round at a US23B valuation, deepening its decade‑long bet on the Nvidia rival ahead of a 2026 IPO.
Positron AI Raises US230M Series B
Positron AI raised an oversubscribed US230M Series B at a US1B+ valuation to scale its Atlas inference systems and develop its Asimov memory‑first AI chip, targeting far better tokens‑per‑watt than Nvidia Rubin.
China Debuts Xihe No.1 Med AI
Peking University Third Hospital and partners launched the “Xihe No.1” AI medical large model in Beijing, using trillion‑scale parameters and millions of records to reach 98% medical knowledge coverage and over 90% accuracy for prediction, diagnosis.
Apple Buys Q.ai for US2B
Apple is acquiring Israeli startup Q.ai in a nearly US2B deal, its biggest since Beats, to bring in audio and computer‑vision AI that can interpret whispered or silent speech and facial micro‑movements for next‑gen Siri, AirPods and wearables
Alibaba T-Head Unveils Zhenwu 810E
Alibaba’s T-Head unit detailed its fully self‑developed Zhenwu 810E AI processor, a parallel processing unit with 96GB HBM2e and 700GB/s bandwidth, positioned as a domestic alternative roughly on par with Nvidia’s H20 for AI training and inference
India Offers 20-Year DC Tax Holiday
India will give foreign cloud and AI firms a tax holiday until 2047 on data center services sold to overseas customers, aiming to turn the country into a global hub for data centers and AI compute while keeping domestic services taxable.
Perplexity Inks US750M Azure Deal
Perplexity signed a three‑year, US750M cloud deal to run frontier AI models on Microsoft Azure via Foundry, adding a second major cloud alongside AWS as it scales search and agentic commerce amid an ongoing Amazon lawsuit.
PaleBlueDot Hits US1B in Series B
Neocloud startup PaleBlueDot AI raised US150M Series B led by B Capital, valuing it above US1B to expand Nvidia‑based GPU capacity and enterprise AI cloud services across the US and Asia.
SoftBank Eyes US30B More for OpenAI
SoftBank is in talks to invest up to US30B more in OpenAI as part of a US100B round that could lift the ChatGPT maker’s valuation to about US830B, alongside Amazon and Nvidia.
Decube Raises US 3M for AI Data Layer
Malaysia’s Decube raised US3M led by Taiwania Hive Ventures to build a data “context layer” that helps enterprises assess whether their data is ready for AI, bringing total funding to US 5M.
Amagi Lists as India’s AI Media Cloud
Amagi, an AI-enabled cloud platform for broadcast and streaming, became the first cloud-native SaaS company of its kind to list on India’s stock exchanges and will deploy ₹5,500.64M into tech and cloud infra through FY28.
Greenko Founders Plan US25B AI Hub
Greenko founders’ AM Group signed an MoU with Uttar Pradesh to build a 1 GW high-performance AI compute hub, investing about US25B in a 500,000‑chip, renewables‑powered data center targeting global AI workloads by 2030.
Phia Raises US35M for AI Shopping
Phia, the AI shopping startup from Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, raised a US35M Series A led by Notable Capital to build an AI shopping agent, after 11x revenue growth and 6,200 brand partners.
SpotDraft Raises US8M from Qualcomm
AI contract platform SpotDraft secured a US8M Series B extension from Qualcomm Ventures to scale its on‑device legal AI, which runs contract review locally on Snapdragon chips and nearly doubles its valuation toward US380M.
Synthesia Doubles to US4B Valuation
Synthesia raised a US200M Series E, doubling its valuation to US4B as its AI video platform for enterprise training passes US100M ARR and it launches a Nasdaq‑facilitated employee secondary sale
Micron's US24B Singapore wafer fab
Micron Technology breaks ground on Singapore's first double-storey wafer fab as part of a US 24 billion investment over 10 years, boosting its total local spend to ~US 60B and creating 1,600 jobs.
Samsung ramps HBM4 production for Nvidia
Samsung Electronics will start HBM4 chip production next month to supply Nvidia, catching up to SK Hynix after past delays, with shares up 2.2% amid Q4 earnings anticipation.
Microsoft unveils Maia 200 AI chip
Microsoft launched the second-gen Maia 200 AI chip, deploying in Iowa and Arizona data centers, with open-source Triton software challenging Nvidia's CUDA developer dominance.
SEA Gets Its First AI Power Test Lab
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres unveiled Southeast Asia's first live HVDC-powered AI infrastructure testbed, the FutureGrid Accelerator, plus MOUs with four IHLs for talent development.
Nvidia pumps US2B into CoreWeave
CoreWeave shares jumped after Nvidia bought US2B of its stock at a discount, funding AI data centers targeting 5 gigawatts of capacity by 2030 as demand for Nvidia-powered “AI factories” soars.
2care.ai cancer care on WhatsApp
Bengaluru startup 2care.ai, launched Aug 2025, uses WhatsApp AI to manage chronic cancer care, organizing reports, vitals, meds, and connecting to specialists; US52K ARR, 9,700 users.
NamiTech raises US4M for voice AI
Vietnam-based Nami Technology has raised US4M led by Japan’s Toho Gas, building on its earlier US2M pre-Series A, to scale enterprise voice intelligence tools across regulated sectors and new APAC markets.
Toku opens strong in SGX debut
AI-powered CX platform Toku, headquartered in Singapore, opened trading on SGX in the first IPO of 2026, raising funds to expand its cloud-native, omnichannel customer experience and AI analytics platform.
Harvey buys Hexus in expansion push
Harvey has acquired product-demo startup Hexus as it races to scale legal AI, bringing in a San Francisco and India-based team to speed products for in-house legal departments amid fierce competition.
Recursive AI targets US4B valuation
Richard Socher’s new startup Recursive AI is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a US4B pre-money valuation to build self-improving superintelligent AI in a red-hot 2026 funding market.
Singapore commits S $786M to AI push
Singapore will invest over S $1 billion (USUS786 million) in public AI R&D between 2025 and 2030 to strengthen sovereign AI capabilities, talent, and research centres under its updated National AI Strategy.
Google Nabs Hume AI Voice Team
Google DeepMind hires Hume AI’s CEO and key engineers under a licensing deal, gaining non-exclusive rights to its emotion-aware voice tech while Hume targets US100M revenue.
Zscaler Adds KL AI-Ready Data Centre
Zscaler has opened a new Kuala Lumpur data centre, boosting capacity, latency and resilience for Malaysian and regional customers while enforcing zero‑trust security and supporting data residency.
State of AI: demand, not bubble
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar and investor Vinod Khosla say AI’s constraint is compute, not demand, as 800M+ people use ChatGPT weekly and enterprises race to deploy agents, health, and robotics use cases.
Micron buys Taiwan fab for US1.8B
Micron will buy PSMC’s P5 fab site in Tongluo, Taiwan for US1.8B, adding a 300mm clean room to boost DRAM output as AI memory demand outpaces supply.
Baidu debuts 2.4T-parameter ERNIE 5
Baidu launched ERNIE 5.0, a 2.4T-parameter all‑modal model that unifies text, image, audio and video, beating top global models on 40+ benchmarks with a sparse MoE design for efficient inference.
Thai tycoon, Google team on AI
Thai billionaire Sarath Ratanavadi’s Gulf Development signed a strategic framework with Google to provide AI infrastructure services as it pivots into an AI-native tech company alongside Google’s USUS1b Thai data center push.
Singapore issues agentic AI guardrails
Singapore has launched a Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI to guide responsible use of autonomous AI agents and reaffirm that humans remain accountable for AI-driven decisions.
LiveKit hits US 1B on US 100M raise
LiveKit, the infra powering real-time voice and video AI (including ChatGPT voice), raised $100M led by Index Ventures at a $1B valuation to scale its low-latency voice AI platform.
Applied Digital starts 430MW AI site
Applied Digital has broken ground on Delta Forge 1, a 430MW “AI Factory” campus in a southern US state, designed to deliver up to 300MW of high‑density AI capacity for hyperscale customers.
Alibaba mulls IPO for AI chip arm
Alibaba is preparing a potential IPO of its AI chip unit T-Head, first restructuring it with employee ownership as it doubles down on in-house accelerators to rival Nvidia and power its AI cloud.
Baseten hits US5B on US300M
Inference infra startup Baseten raised US300M at a US5B valn a growth round led by IVP and Alphabet’s CapitalG, with Nvidia chipping in about US150M to back its GPU-powered serving platform
ChatGPT for doctors’ hits US12B
OpenEvidence, dubbed “ChatGPT for doctors,” raised US250M led by Thrive and DST, doubling its valuation to US12B after less than a year and US700M total funding
Simplex AI raises US6M for Lev8
Singapore-based Simplex AI secured US6M from GL Ventures to launch Lev8, a real-time people intelligence platform that turns the open web into live, intent-driven prospect data for go-to-market teams.
Level3AI raises US13M seed
Singapore’s Level3AI raised a US13M seed led by Lightspeed to scale its enterprise AI agents that guarantee CX metrics for APAC brands like GetGo, Carousell and Carsome
Bolna raises US6.3M seed
India-focused voice AI startup Bolna raised a US6.3M seed round led by General Catalyst, with YC, Blume and others, to scale its voice orchestration platform tailored to Indian enterprises.
Humans& raises US480M seed
AI startup Humans& raised US480M at a US4.48B valuation in a seed round led by SV Angel and Georges Harik, with Nvidia, Jeff Bezos and GV backing its human-centric AI tools.
Ivo raises US55M for AI contracts
Ivo raised a US55M Series B led by Blackbird to scale its AI contract intelligence platform for in-house legal teams, deepen product capabilities, and expand to London and New York.
LTIMindtree wins ₹3,000 cr AI deal
LTIMindtree has secured a ₹3,000 crore, seven-year mandate from CBDT to build an AI-powered national tax analytics platform that delivers real-time insights for Indian tax policymakers.
Blackstone bets big on Neysa
Blackstone is committing US50–75M in a structured deal to AI cloud startup Neysa at a ~US300M valuation, with an option to take a majority stake as India’s AI infra demand surges.
Emergent raises US70M for AI apps
Indian AI app-creation startup Emergent raised US70M Series B led by SoftBank Vision Fund and Khosla Ventures, just months after its US23M Series A, to scale “vibe-coding” tools and teams.
GeneralMind raises US12m for AI ops
Tushar Ahluwalia’s Berlin-headquartered AI startup GeneralMind raises US12m to scale its autonomous workflow automation platform for large enterprises across Europe.
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Anthropic Hires India Managing Director
Anthropic has hired ex‑Microsoft India MD Irina Ghose to lead its India operations and first Bengaluru office, deepening work with enterprises, developers and policymakers in Claude.ai’s second‑largest market.
Parloa Triples Value to US3B
German startup Parloa raised a US350M Series D, tripling its valuation to US3B in under a year, to expand its low‑code AI customer service platform, grow ARR beyond US50M, and scale in Europe and the US.
OpenAI Inks US10B Cerebras Compute Deal
OpenAI agreed to buy up to 750 MW of compute from Cerebras over three years in a deal worth over US10B, using its specialized AI chips to speed ChatGPT while reducing dependence on Nvidia by diversifying suppliers.
Deepgram Raises US130M Voice AI Round
San Francisco-based Deepgram raised a US130M Series C at a US1.3B valuation to expand its real‑time voice AI API platform, add languages, fuel international growth and fund compute and acquisitions, including drive‑thru voice startup OfOne.
Toku Files First SGX AI IPO
Singapore-based Toku, an AI-powered 360° customer experience platform, has lodged its offer document for the first SGX IPO of 2026, aiming to raise funds to enhance its conversational and agentic AI stack and expand across APAC, LATAM, MENA and Europ
GrowthPal Raises US2.6M for AI M&A
Singapore-based GrowthPal raised US2.6M led by Ideaspring Capital to scale its AI M&A copilot, which scans 4M+ tech firms to surface high‑fit, often off‑market acquisition targets and speed deal sourcing and execution worldwide
i10X Raises US1M for Unified AI Hub
Singapore-based i10X secured a US1M pre-seed round from Iterative, Antler AI Disrupt and PPR Ventures to grow its unified AI workspace, which aggregates 500+ AI agents and major models like GPT, Claude and Gemini into a single subscription platform.
Liquidnitro Games Raises US19.1M Series
Hyderabad-based Liquidnitro Games raised US19.1M Series A led by Northpoint Capital, with Nexus Venture Partners participating, to scale its AI‑enabled game production and live services platform and expand across India, MENA and Southeast Asia
OpenAI Buys Torch to Boost Health AI
OpenAI has acquired health-tech startup Torch, reportedly for around US60–100M, to fold its “unified medical memory” tech—lab results, meds and visit recordings in one stream—into ChatGPT Health and enterprise health products.
Hupo AI Raises US10M Series A
Meta‑backed Hupo AI raised a US10M Series A led by DST Global to scale its AI coaching platform, which simulates hyper‑realistic client conversations and helps large BFSI enterprises upskill thousands of frontline sales and service staff.
SK Hynix Plans US 13B AI Memory Plant
SK Hynix will spend nearly US 13B building an advanced chip packaging fab in Cheongju, South Korea, to expand high‑bandwidth memory output for AI accelerators amid a global HBM shortage and surging demand from customers like Nvidia.
Snowflake Bets on Data-Led AI Edge
Snowflake’s ASEAN MD says the firm is betting on high‑quality, well‑governed data, AI observability via its Observe deal, and new instances in Malaysia and Thailand to turn AI pilots into production deployments at scale.
Bluecopa Raises US 7.5M for AI Finance
Hyderabad-based Bluecopa raised US 7.5M Series A to scale its Samix AI-powered autonomous finance platform, aiming to “kill” month-end closes by automating up to 90% of reconciliations and enabling continuous, real-time finance operations.
NVIDIA, Lilly Launch US1B AI Drug Lab
NVIDIA and Eli Lilly will invest up to US 1B over five years in a Bay Area AI co-innovation lab built on BioNeMo and Vera Rubin, linking Lilly’s “AI factory” and wet labs with NVIDIA’s compute to speed drug discovery and manufacturing.
DeepSeek Readies Next-Gen V4 AI Model
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is expected to launch its next-gen V4 model around mid-February, with stronger coding and reasoning abilities that could further pressure US rivals after its low-cost R1 previously shook global AI and chip markets.
Torq Becomes US 1.2B AI CyberAI
AI-driven cybersecurity startup Torq raised a US140M Series D at a US1.2B valuation to scale its autonomous AI SOC platform, after ~300% 2025 revenue growth and adoption by enterprises like Marriott, PepsiCo, P&G, Siemens, Uber and Virgin Atlantic.
Malaysia, Indonesia Block Grok AI
Malaysia and Indonesia have restricted access to Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot after users generated non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes, including images of minors, saying X and xAI failed to implement adequate safeguards.
AMD Unveils CES 2026 AI Chip Lineup
At CES 2026, AMD introduced its Helios AI rack platform with Instinct MI455X/MI500 GPUs for exaflop-scale training, plus new Ryzen AI 400, AI Pro 400, Max+ and Halo dev chips to push AI from laptops to data centers.
OpenAI Acqui-Hires Convogo Team
OpenAI acquires Convogo team in its ninth acqui-hire in a year, bringing the three co-founders onboard for AI cloud efforts while winding down the executive coaching product and not buying its IP.
Modi Pushes ‘Made in India’ AI
PM Modi meets leading Indian AI startups ahead of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, calling for a distinct “Made in India, Made for the World” AI model that is ethical, inclusive, and language-local.
xAI Raises US 20B Series E
Elon Musk’s xAI closed an upsized $20B Series E round, above its US 15B target, valuing the company around US 230B and funding massive GPU infrastructure and next-gen Grok models built on X’s 600M users
Aivar Raises US 4.6M Seed Round
Coimbatore-based Aivar Innovations secured US 4.6M seed funding led by Sorin Investments with Bessemer, to expand its AI services “studio” globally and invest in proprietary AI accelerators and senior talent.
Microsoft AI CEO on the Next Decade
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts AGI-level systems within 5–10 years, reshaping work, education, and healthcare through personal AI agents, medical superintelligence, and always-on AI memory.
LMArena hits US 1.7B on Series A
LMArena, born from UC Berkeley’s Chatbot Arena project, raised a US150M Series A at a US 1.7B valuation just four months after launching its paid AI Evaluations product, taking total funding to US 250M.
ChatGPT Health launches for medical help
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, an encrypted health space in ChatGPT that can connect medical records and apps like Apple Health or MyFitnessPal to explain labs, summarize bloodwork and give tailored wellness guidance.
Anthropic eyes US 10B mega-round
Anthropic, maker of Claude, is planning to raise about US$10B at a roughly US$350B valuation, with GIC and Coatue poised to lead, nearly doubling its value in just months as AI funding stays red‑hot.
Alswaha, Musk & Huang on AI future
In this US–Saudi forum session, Saudi minister Abdullah Alswaha, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang discuss how AI “factories,” robotics and massive energy‑hungry compute could reshape economies, work and currency in a coming intelligence age.
Nvidia CEO’s CES 2026 AI vision
Jensen Huang discusses Nvidia’s latest CES 2026 launches, including Rubin‑generation AI platforms, physical‑AI robots, and next‑gen GPUs/CPUs/networking to power ever‑larger foundation models and real‑time AI applications.
OpenAI CEO on winning the AI race
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explains how the company plans to stay ahead with a tightly integrated stack of models, products and distribution, while tackling infra costs, AI devices, and more personalized, memory‑driven assistants.
Azimuth AI raises edge-chip funding
Azimuth AI, a Sacramento- and Hyderabad-based semiconductor startup building custom edge‑AI SoCs for smart utilities and industrial infrastructure, closed a new funding round led by Jetha Global with backing from existing VCs Moneta and AUM Ventures
Samsung rides AI memory boom
Samsung is expected to post Q4 operating profit of about 16.9T won, up ~160% year-on-year and its best in six years, as an AI-driven shortage sends DDR5 DRAM prices up more than threefold.
Kuaishou stock soars on Kling AI
Kuaishou’s shares have surged 84% over the past year as its Kling AI video‑generation platform gains 60M users, powers 600M+ videos and tops app charts in markets like South Korea and Russia, with 2025 AI revenue projected at US 140M.
NVIDIA debuts Rubin, physical AI stack
NVIDIA launched its Rubin AI supercomputing platform plus new open physical‑AI models, frameworks and infrastructure, alongside partner robots targeting industrial, logistics and service use cases.
DayOne raises $2B for AI campuses
Singapore‑based DayOne Data Centers secured over US$2B in Series C funding to expand high‑density, AI‑ready data‑center campuses across Finland, SIJORI, Thailand, Japan and Hong Kong, backing ~1GW of customer commitments.
MiniMax set for $6.5B HK IPO
Chinese AI startup MiniMax Group is expected to price its Hong Kong IPO at the top of the HK$151–165 range, raising about HK$4.19B (US$538M) and valuing the firm near US$6.5B, after the deal was oversubscribed multiple times.
Fractal plans ₹4,900cr AI IPO.
Fractal Analytics, India’s first AI unicorn, is set to begin book-building next week for a ₹4,900 crore Mumbai IPO, after securing SEBI approval, and may do a ₹256 crore pre‑IPO placement to institutions.
Sikkim AI startup Valuation at US 4.4 M
Sikkim-based AI startup Apuphi raised German FDI at a US 4.4M valuation via Series I CCPS, one of the state’s first structured tech deals, backing its AI career platform and aligning with Sikkim’s new AI policy push.
Delhi revamps city for AI Summit
Delhi Chief Secretary Rajeev Verma has ordered preparations for the Feb 15–20 AI Impact Summit to be “better than G20,” revamping 50+ roads, lighting, cleanliness and security around key hubs and tourist sites.
India boosts AI with ₹10,300cr push.
India allocated over ₹10,300 crore to the IndiaAI Mission, expanding national compute to 38,000 GPUs, with subsidised access at ₹65/hour to support startups, researchers and India-specific AI models.
Coforge-Encora boost AI engineering
The Encora acquisition strengthens Coforge's engineering backbone, rebalances its mix toward hi-tech/healthcare, expands US and LatAm footprint, and lifts combined scale to ~US 2–2.2B revenue and ~41.5K FTEs
Pichai on AI, search and agents
Pichai calls AI a bigger shift than mobile, enabling more people to build products, powering agents and AR glasses, and reshaping search as Google juggles publisher economics, antitrust and bets like Waymo.
Meta's MSL ramps up Singapore hiring.
Meta’s Superintelligence Lab is expanding in Singapore, hiring AI researchers and engineers alongside the 100-person Manus team, even as 600 AI staff were put on non-working notice to streamline efforts.
Nvidia CEO on AI’s next decade
In this Huge Conversations interview, Jensen Huang traces Nvidia’s journey from 1990s gaming GPUs to today’s AI infrastructure, then forecasts an era where accelerated computing powers omnipresent robots, personal AI “R2‑D2s,” and domain‑specific AI
Kioxia soars on AI storage boom.
Japanese NAND maker Kioxia’s shares jumped ~540% in 2025, driven by surging AI data-center storage demand, making it a top MSCI World and Topix performer despite valuation worries and a brief post-earnings selloff
China’s MetaX, Moore Threads soar
MetaX and Moore Threads’ IPOs in Shanghai, surging about 700% and 400%, spotlight China’s rush to build Nvidia-rival AI GPUs amid U.S. export curbs, with investors betting on a self-sufficient chip ecosystem.
SoftBank lifts OpenAI stake to 11%
SoftBank completed a US 41B investment in OpenAI, raising its stake to about 11% via direct and syndicated funding, deepening Masayoshi Son's all-in AI bet
OpenAI’s Sam Altman on AI’s future
Sam Altman and TED’s Chris Anderson discuss ChatGPT’s impact, AI agents, open-source frontier models, GPU scarcity, safety frameworks, and how AI could reshape work, creativity, and everyday life.
Zhipu and MiniMax IPO
Zhipu AI & MiniMax file HK IPOs despite losses. Zhipu targets US300M (US44M 2024 rev), MiniMax US700M (US4.2B+ val). Billions spent on compute; backed by Alibaba/Tencent.
Marissa Mayer's Dazzle raises US8M.
Marissa Mayer shut Sunshine to launch Dazzle, AI assistant startup. Raised $8M seed at $35M val led by Forerunner's Kirsten Green (Kleiner Perkins+). Sunshine investors get 10% equity. Launch early 2026.
Alphabet Buys Intersect
Alphabet agreed to acquire Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for US4.75B cash plus debt.
Jet.AI invests US10M in AI data center
Jet.AI (JTAI) announced a joint venture with Choo Choo Express to develop a 50MW AI data center campus in Moapa, Nevada. Jet.AI commits US10M over two years, tied to milestones; CCE provides land. Site supports hyperscale inference near utilities.
Nvidia Buys Groq Assets
Nvidia struck a US20B non-exclusive licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq for its inference tech and key talent. Groq remains independent, with founder Jonathan Ross and president Sunny Madra joining Nvidia.
SoftBank in talks to buy DigitalBridge
DigitalBridge shares surge 30% on SoftBank US10B+ acquisition talks for AI data centers. No deal finalized; shares hit US19.
Meta Acquires Manus AI
Meta Platforms acquired Singapore-based AI startup Manus, founded by Chinese entrepreneurs. Manus builds advanced AI agents for deep research and complex tasks. Terms undisclosed; Manus will continue operations.
Meta's Mango AI for 2026
Meta's Superintelligence Lab, led by Alexandr Wang, builds "Mango" (image/video) and "Avocado" (text/coding) models for H1 2026 release to catch OpenAI/Google, amid AI team shakeups.
OpenAI Eyes US 100B at US 830B Val
OpenAI in talks for US 100B funding by Q1 2026 at US 750-830B valuation, targeting sovereign funds amid surging compute costs and competition from Anthropic/Google.
India Curbs High-Risk AI
India's Nov 2025 AI Guidelines adopt risk-based approach prohibiting unrestricted high-risk AI deployment, addressing bias/discrimination via safeguards, sectoral regulators, without new laws.
Cursor Buys Graphite AI
Anysphere's Cursor (US29B val) acquires Graphite (> US290M last val) for AI code review/debugging with "stacked PRs"; Graphite operates independently while integrating with Cursor's editor.
BytePlus launches Seedance 1.5 Pro
BytePlus' Seedance 1.5 Pro generates cinematic 4-12s videos with synced multilingual dialogue (8+ languages), stable visuals, camera controls for ads/e-comm/education; available via ModelArk/Dreamina.
Coursera Buys Udemy US2.5B
Coursera to buy Udemy for ~US930M (0.8 COUR shares/Udemy share) in all-stock deal valuing combined edtech firm at US2.5B, targeting AI/data science reskilling amid post-pandemic consolidation.
Flipkart Buys Minivet Stake
Flipkart snaps up majority stake in 2024-founded Minivet AI for GenAI video/catalogue tools to boost immersive e-comm shopping amid video commerce trend.
Grab-Momenta AV Partnership
Grab invests in Momenta's AI-powered self-driving tech (L2/L4 ADAS + Robotaxi) for Southeast Asia, using factory-integrated AI from BMW/Mercedes.
Galatek's US30M AI Series A
Singapore's Galatek secures US30M Series A to boost AI automation in life sciences labs and semiconductor advanced packaging; funds product dev, supply chain, teams in Europe/NA/S
Lovable raises $330M series B
Lovable has raised a massive $330M at a $6.6B valuation led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures’ Anthology fund.
Databricks US4B at US134B Val
Databricks secures US4B in Series L funding at US134B valuation, up from US100B six months ago; revenue hit US4.8B run-rate (+55% YoY) with AI/data warehousing each over US1B. Funds R&D, hiring, liquidity.
Dell Buys Dataloop US120M
Dell Technologies acquires Israeli AI startup Dataloop for US120M cash to enhance enterprise AI data management, labeling, and workflows; Dataloop raised US50M prior, serves clients like Vimeo, Syngenta.
Tagbin Bags US10M AI Fund
Gurugram's Tagbin secures US10M from SageOne, Ramesh Damani et al. to scale AI platforms for govt data mgmt/decision-making; eyes 2027 IPO after ₹100Cr+ FY revenue.
MoEngage Bags US 180M More
MoEngage secures US 180M additional Series F funding led by ChrysCapital and Dragon Funds, totaling US280M round; funds AI Merlin suite, expansions in NA/EMEA, acquisitions, plus US15M employee liquidity. Valuation tops US 900M
Qatar's Cheap Power AI Push
Qatar banks on low-cost energy and US20B Qai-Brookfield JV to catch UAE/Saudi in AI infrastructure, offsetting desert cooling costs amid massive hyperscaler demand. Targets 1.5-2GW by 2030
MS Cuts Copilot Goals
Microsoft slashed AI sales targets by up to 50% as Copilot lags behind ChatGPT and Gemini, with weak demand and high task failure rates deterring users despite heavy OpenAI investment.
Amazon Eyes US10B OpenAI Bet
Amazon in early talks for up to US10B OpenAI investment, valuing it over US500B; deal ties OpenAI to Amazon's AI chips amid circular AI pacts. No comment from firms.
Olea Lands US 30M Series A
Singapore's Olea raised US 30M Series A led by BBVA, with XDC Network, theDOCK, and SC Ventures to boost AI/Web3 in trade finance; platform has enabled US 3B financing across 70+ corridors for 1,000+ clients.
Biren Wins HK IPO Green Light
Biren Technology, China's GPU designer, got CSRC approval for Hong Kong IPO to raise ~$300M by floating 372M shares, joining Moore Threads and MetaX in public listings amid AI chip self-sufficiency push.
MetaX Shares Explode 700% on Debut
Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX's shares soared nearly 700% on Shanghai debut after raising ~$600M IPO, from 104.66 yuan to over 835 yuan, amid China's push for domestic GPUs vs. US restrictions.
Taiwan Unveils AI Cloud Center
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te opened a new Tainan cloud center with the Nano 4 supercomputer (1,760 Nvidia H200 & 144 Blackwell chips) to drive "sovereign AI" and transform the island into an AI powerhouse.
Bezos, Musk Race for Space AI Data Cente
Bezos' Blue Origin and Musk's SpaceX develop orbital AI data centers to ease Earth's energy strain. Blue Origin has worked on it for over a year; SpaceX upgrades Starlink for AI amid US800B valuation potential.
Mirelo Bags US 41M for AI Video Sound
Berlin startup Mirelo raised a US 41M seed from Index and a16z to add AI-generated, perfectly synced sound effects to videos, targeting creators via API and its Mirelo Studio workspace.
Lightspeed Secures Record US 9B
Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised a record US 9B across six funds to double down on AI investing and follow-on bets in winners like Anthropic, amid a tough fundraising climate for smaller VCs
Sunway iLabs, Alibaba in AI pact
Sunway iLabs teams up with Alibaba’s NextGen Fund to link Malaysia with Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, fast-tracking AI startups’ funding, R&D and regional market expansion.
Intel eyes US 1.6b SambaNova buy
Intel is close to buying AI chip startup SambaNova for about US$1.6 billion including debt, potentially giving it a key AI platform at a big discount to SambaNova’s prior US$5 billion valuation.
OpenEvidence Eyes US 12B Valuation
OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for clinicians, is in talks to raise USM250m in equity funding, which would double its valuation to about US12b.
Korea’s Tough New AI Law Looms
Korea’s AI framework act takes effect on Jan 22, 2026, creating a national AI committee and strict safety, transparency and watermarking rules, worrying startups about costs and rushed compliance.
Japan, Central Asia Plan AI Pact
Japan will set up an AI cooperation framework with five Central Asian states to boost economic security by using AI in mineral development and supply chains, to be sealed at a Tokyo summit.
Gensyn Kicks Off $AI Token Sale
Gensyn has launched its $AI token sale on Sonar, offering 3% of supply via English auction, with bonus multipliers for active Testnet users as it readies its decentralised AI compute network for mainnet.
Nvidia Debuts New Open-Source Models
Nvidia launched Nemotron 3, a new family of open-source AI models, starting with the lightweight Nemotron 3 Nano, promising cheaper, faster long-form reasoning as Chinese open-source rivals gain traction.
Prudential, Cyberport Turbocharge AI
Prudential Hong Kong and Cyberport signed an MoU to co-develop AI, boosting Prudential’s AI Centre of Excellence, tapping Cyberport’s AI supercomputing and talent, and positioning Hong Kong as a regional AI hub.
Synvo, SBG Seal Secure AI Pact
Synvo AI and Indonesia’s Sobat Bisnis Group formed a strategic partnership to deploy secure, context-aware enterprise AI across Indonesia and Southeast Asia, targeting data‑sensitive, complex business environments.
OpenAI-Backed Chai’s $130M Leap
Chai Discovery raises $130M at a $1.3B valuation to scale its Chai-2 platform, which massively improves AI-designed antibody success rates and speeds drug development.
Alipay, Rokid Let You ‘Pay by Glance’
Alipay and Rokid opened their AI “look-and-pay” smart glasses payment function to developers via MCP, letting apps add hands-free, voice-powered payments and joining China’s fast-growing AI glasses race.
ElevenLabs Bets Big Beyond Voice
ElevenLabs, now worth US$6.6b after a US$100m tender offer, is moving beyond voice into a full conversational agent stack, investing in deepfake safeguards, music generation and audio–video model integrations.
Phoebe Gates "Phia" raises US $30m
Phoebe Gates’ AI shopping assistant Phia raised $30m at a $180m valuation, just months after an $8m seed, with backing from celebrities and top VCs to grow its browser-based shopping agent.
Singapore joins US Pax Silica pact
Singapore and six partners, including the US, Australia, Japan and Britain, signed the Pax Silica Declaration to cooperate on AI, trusted digital networks and strategic tech supply chains.
Notta raises $15m for voice AI
Japan’s Notta secured about 2.3 billion yen (US$15m) in Series B funding led by Granite-Integral to grow its AI meeting-minutes tool, hire for enterprise expansion and enhance its voice AI software and hardware.
OpenEvidence hits US$6b value
OpenEvidence, an AI assistant for clinicians trained on top medical journals, is raising US$200 million at a US$6 billion valuation, just months after a US$210 million round, led by GV and major VC firms.
Kuailu AI-CRM Turbocharges SMEs
Kuailu Tech has upgraded its Kuailu Cloud AI-CRM to help manufacturing SMEs in Southeast Asia unify customer data, automate sales, and coordinate sales-to-production more efficiently.
SynaXG’s US$20M AI-RAN Boost
Singapore deep-tech startup SynaXG raised over USD20M in its first round, led by January Capital, Vertex Ventures, and Qualgro, to scale AI-powered radio access network (AI‑RAN) tech.
Unconventional AI’s USD 475M Mega Seed
Unconventional AI, founded two months ago by ex‑Databricks AI head Naveen Rao, raised a USD 475M seed round at a USD 4.5B valuation to build radically more energy‑efficient AI computers.
SoftBank’s Big Data Centre Bet
SoftBank is weighing a multibillion‑dollar bid for data‑centre operator Switch and backer DigitalBridge to secure AI data‑centre capacity and deepen its push into AI infrastructure.
Disney Bets Big on OpenAI
Disney is investing USD 1B in OpenAI and licensing 200+ iconic characters for Sora and ChatGPT, while simultaneously sending Google a cease-and-desist over alleged large-scale copyright infringement by its AI tools.
Harness hits USD 5.5B on AI DevOps boom
AI DevOps startup Harness raised $240M at a $5.5B valuation to automate post‑coding work like testing, security, and deployment as AI‑generated code volume surges.
GPT‑5.2: Your New Workhorse
GPT‑5.2 is OpenAI’s most capable model yet, boosting reasoning, coding, long-context work, and vision for complex professional tasks in ChatGPT and the API.
Vertiv’s new AI plant in Johor
Vertiv will open a Johor facility by early 2026 to build power, cooling and modular data centre systems for AI workloads, creating up to 500 skilled local jobs.
JV builds AI data centers in Hanoi, HCMC
HITC and Evolution are partnering to develop large-scale, renewable-powered AI and hyperscale data centers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to support Vietnam’s digital growth.
TCS Buys Coastal Cloud for USD 700M
TCS is acquiring U.S. Salesforce partner Coastal Cloud for USD 700M, adding 400+ multi-cloud specialists and cementing its push into AI‑first, agent‑driven Salesforce transformations worldwide.
Meta Buys RISC-V Chip Startup Rivos
Meta is acquiring Rivos, a Lip‑Bu Tan‑backed RISC‑V chip startup and key supplier, to speed its in‑house AI accelerators and reduce reliance on costly Nvidia GPUs; deal terms are undisclosed.
Google Taps Vahdat to Lead AI Infra
Google appointed Amin Vahdat as chief technologist for AI infrastructure as it boosts data center and hardware spend, with capex set to exceed $90B amid intensifying AI compute competition.
Riyadh Air: World's First AI Airline
IBM, Riyadh Air launch first AI-native airline sans legacy systems via watsonx. Boosts employee/crew care, ops efficiency for 100+ destinations by 2030.
Amazon-MSFT's USD 52B India AI Push
Amazon will invest USD 35B and Microsoft USD 17.5B in India to scale AI and cloud infrastructure, new data centres, and sovereign cloud services as the country courts massive tech and chip investments.
Dell Eyes Dataloop to Boost AI Data
Dell is in talks to buy Dataloop, an Israeli startup that manages, labels, and processes unstructured data, potentially adding a crucial data layer to Dell’s growing enterprise AI infrastructure push.
Luma AI Lands USD 900M From Saudi Backed
Video startup Luma AI raised USD 900M led by Saudi AI firm Humain, hitting a USD 4B+ valuation and teaming up on “Project Halo,” a 2GW AI supercluster to power frontier multimodal world models.
Adobe Brings Creative Cloud to ChatGPT
Adobe is embedding Photoshop, Express and Acrobat into ChatGPT so users can edit images, design graphics and manage PDFs directly in the chatbot across web, desktop and mobile.
Sakana AI Raised USD 135M
Tokyo’s Sakana AI raised USD 135M at a $2.65B valuation to build efficient, Japan‑tuned AI models, grow its team, and expand from finance into sectors like manufacturing, government, and defense.
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Weekly AI news roundup covering billion-dollar startup valuations, trillion-dollar economic impact, and major developments from Nvidia, Cortex AI, OpenAI, Respire, DeepSeek, Meta, Softbank, ChemLax across Asia and globally.
Meta Bets Big on ‘Avocado’
Meta is developing a new frontier AI model called Avocado, shifting away from its open-source Llama strategy after a $14.3 billion talent spree, but the overhaul is sparking culture clashes and pressure to justify massive AI spending.
Meet AutoGLM, Your Phone Pilot
Zhipu AI open-sourced AutoGLM, an AI agent that can operate smartphones end to end by reading screens and simulating taps and text, enabling multi-step tasks across 50+ major Chinese apps with local or cloud deployment options.
Black Forest Labs' USD 3.25B valuation
Black Forest Labs, a German AI image-generation startup, raised 300 million USD at a 2 billion USD valuation to scale its Flux model family, grow its team, and expand commercial partnerships globally.
OpenAI, Anthropic Unite on Agents
Block, Anthropic and OpenAI have created the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to make autonomous AI agents an open, interoperable ecosystem, seeding it with goose, MCP and AGENTS.md and drawing in cloud giants and open‑source heavywei
Groceries Now in ChatGPT
OpenAI and Instacart launched a fully integrated grocery app in ChatGPT so users can plan meals, fill a cart, and pay with Instant Checkout in one conversation, using Instacart’s 1,800+ retailer network for delivery
Code Red: Altman vs Google
Sam Altman told OpenAI staff the company is in “code red,” shifting focus to upgrading ChatGPT’s everyday experience as Google’s Gemini gains ground, prioritising faster, more reliable, more personalized answers over launching new side products.
Fal soars to USD 4.5B valuation
AI startup Fal raised $ USD 140 million in a Sequoia-led Series D at a $ USD4.5 billion valuation, tripling its value in months as investors bet on its fast-growing platform that hosts image, video and audio AI models for developers and enterprises.
IBM’s USD 11B AI Power Move
IBM is buying data-streaming specialist Confluent for $11 billion to become the “smart data” backbone for AI, deepening its cloud and software push as enterprises race to handle real-time data for generative and agentic AI applications.
Qatar’s USD 20B AI Power Play
Brookfield and Qatar’s Qai are creating a USD 20 billion AI infrastructure venture to build high-performance data centres and an Integrated Compute hub, aiming to turn Qatar into the Middle East’s next big artificial intelligence hotspot.
Trump Turns Chip Trade On
"Trump approved Nvidia’s H200 AI chip exports to vetted Chinese customers, reversing Biden-era curbs while keeping Blackwell and Rubin off-limits, igniting a political firestorm over national security, US jobs and China’s AI ambitions. "
ByteDance's AI phone sparks fear
ByteDance’s AI-first phone has jolted China’s tech scene, worrying Tencent and Alibaba that its tightly integrated hardware–software stack could siphon user data, time and app dominance into a new ByteDance-centric ecosystem.
ChemLex secures USD 45M for AI lab
ChemLex raised USD 45M to build its global HQ and a self-driving drug discovery lab in Singapore, scaling its autonomous AI chemistry platform and EDDC partnership to speed small‑molecule R&D worldwide.
Naver’s ‘Agent N’ Goes All‑In
Naver unveiled “Agent N,” an AI assistant that chats with users, watches behavior and completes tasks, powered by a 1 trillion won GPU push and new shopping and search agents plus “Sovereign AI 2.0” industry models.
SoftBank–OpenAI's 'Crystal' Push
SoftBank and OpenAI formed SB OAI Japan to roll out "Crystal intelligence," an enterprise AI stack that blends OpenAI models with local integration, aiming to overhaul how Japanese companies manage operations from 2026 onward.
Nvidia Backs India's Deep Tech
Nvidia joined India's $2 billion Deep Tech Alliance as a founding member to mentor AI and semiconductor
Respire's AI Wins HSA Nod
Respire's 1Bio AI-Acute software won approval as a Class B medical device to spot inpatient deterioration using AI on bedside data, improving accuracy and reducing false alerts in current care.
NYT Targets Perplexity in Court
NYT sued Perplexity AI in US court for illegally copying and displaying millions of NYT articles including paywalled content. NYT claims Perplexity served fabricated stories misattributed to NYT.
Trump allows Nvidia H200 sales to China
US President Donald Trump agrees with Xi Jinping to let Nvidia export H200 AI chips to approved Chinese customers, reversing earlier US curbs while keeping Blackwell and Rubin GPUs restricted to the US.
Aaru’s Billion‑Buzz Series A
Synthetic research startup Aaru raised a Series A led by Redpoint, selling some shares at a $1 billion “headline” valuation while using lower tiers for other investors, as its AI agents that simulate human behavior lure big brands despite sub-$10 mil
Cortex AI nets $6m for real-world data
Carousell co-founder Lucas Ngoo's robotics startup Cortex AI raised US$6M seed funding to collect real-world data for robots by studying workers in industrial workplaces and capturing hand movement information to train AI models.
Privacy-first AI: Can decentralised
Explores decentralised AI models and their potential to challenge centralised platforms like ChatGPT, focusing on privacy, data sovereignty, federated learning, and regulatory implications for AI development.
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This course will teach you about how to use AI to be more effective as a programmer. It’s not a course to teach about machine learning or how to train your own models, but instead a course focused on developers writing software using AI models.
Data is the Moat
In Asian retail, AI’s future hinges on data that reflects local nuance, language, and culture. Generic datasets fail. Quality, provenance, and regional specificity are the true moat—shaping trust, accuracy, and competitive advantage.
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Natasha Malpani launches ₹200cr AI fund
Natasha Malpani, ex-Kae Capital partner, launches Boundless Ventures, a ₹200 crore VC fund to back India AI-native startups at pre-seed/seed stages. Focus: consumer AI, infra, agent tooling, verticals (healthcare, logistics), and deeptech hardware.
ChatGPT Go: OpenAI cheapest India plan
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Go, a new, affordable India-only plan (Rs 399/month). The subscription gives users 10x higher message, image generation, and file upload limits, and 2x longer memory compared to free.
Co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs
Igor Babuschkin, xAI co-founder, departs to start Babuschkin Ventures focused on AI safety. The departure comes amid recent Grok controversies involving content issues. Significant shift in AI talent and leadership landscape.
Anthropic Hires HumanLoop Cofounders
AI startup Anthropic has hired the cofounders and much of the senior team from Humanloop, an AI development platform. This is not an acquisition but rather a strategic talent hire. This move signals Anthropic's commitment to expanding their AI capabi
Everything you need to know about GPT-5
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Grok-Imagine Tool by xAI Raises AI Conte
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DeepMind debuts Genie 3, world-building
Genie 3 creates interactive 3D virtual worlds for training AI, offering a significant advancement in developing more general-purpose agents. This revolutionary technology enables AI systems to learn a
OpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini models to
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DeepMind debuts Genie 3, world-building
DeepMind's Genie 3 creates interactive 3D virtual environments for training AI, offering a significant leap toward more general-purpose agents.
Sidec Deep-X launches Malaysian AI accel
Sidec Deep-X, a Malaysian accelerator, is accepting new AI and deep tech startup cohorts to foster homegrown AI companies.
Lenovo reveals new India AI projects
At Tech World India 2025, Lenovo launched AI-driven manufacturing, edge AI services, and AI PCs for India, with a new AI R&D lab to boost innovation.
Sea partners OpenAI for SEA AI tools
Sea signed MOU with OpenAI to make advanced AI tools accessible for commerce and SMEs in Southeast Asia; Shopee will offer free ChatGPT Plus for VIPs
AI to add nearly $1T to SE Asia economy
AI expected to drive US$1 trillion in incremental value by 2030 across Southeast Asia, fueled by investment in AI startups and advanced models.
Razer launches AI excellence center in S
Razer opened its first AI Center of Excellence in Singapore, aiming to advance AI-powered gaming solutions and hire 150 local specialists, supported by Digital Industry Singapore
NUS, Google partner for AI research
NUS and Google have signed a partnership to advance applied AI research and talent development in Singapore.
AI to add nearly $1T to SE Asia economy
AI expected to drive US$1 trillion in incremental value by 2030 across Southeast Asia, fueled by investment in AI startups and advanced models.
Singapore launches Agentic AI Accelerato
Microsoft and DISG unveiled an AI accelerator program for 300 Singapore businesses, supporting AI adoption and transformation.
Clay hits $3.1B valuation in AI funding
AI startup Clay raised $100M at a $3.1B valuation in its latest round led by CapitalG, with backing from Sequoia, Meritech, and First Round Capital.
How AI Outreach Agents Can Supercharge Y
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The Runway Ventures
The Runway Ventures is helping founders become better and smarter operators by learning from startup failures through its weekly newsletter.
Thinking Machines exits stealth
Thinking Machines has exited stealth, with cofounders and valuation announced.
Global AI Index
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T5 Gemma by Google
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Context Engineering Guide
Some thought leaders in the industry have introduced the term "context engineering" as a broader skillset than prompt engineering. This 12 page document is a concise introduction to key concepts.
Open source LLM from ETH Zurich and EPFL
The new multilingual, open source model was made while respecting copyright and EU AI Act requirements. It will be made available under the Apache 2.0 license.
Groq unveils 1st European AI Data Center
Groq has launched its first European data center in Helsinki, Finland, in partnership with Equinix. This facility brings Groq’s high-speed AI inference technology to European enterprises.
Lovable raising $150m at $2b valuation
Swedish AI startup Lovable is finalizing a $150 million funding round led by Accel, valuing the company at $2 billion. Founded in 2023, Lovable enables users to build full-stack web apps from prompts.
A framework for AI development transpare
Anthropic is proposing a flexible framework to be applied to the largest frontier model developers, to ensure transparency and safety without impeding innovation.
xAI buys power plant to run 1 mn GPUs
Elon Musk’s xAI is purchasing an overseas power plant to power a new data center housing 1 mn GPUs. The facility’s energy needs could reach nearly 2 gigawatts - enough to power 1.9 mn homes.
Shieldbase raises undisclosed funding
Shieldbase raises funding from First Move and GenAI Fund to develop its AI operating system that unifies fragmented enterprise AI tools and expand across Asia-Pacific.
Singapore's Global AI Assurance Sandbox
AIVF and IMDA launch Global AI Assurance Sandbox globally, which includes agentic AI testing and vulnerability assessments, providing standardized testing tools & more.
MuseSteamer - Baidu's AI video generator
Baidu has launched an AI video generator capable of creating five-minute videos from text prompts, aiming to compete with OpenAI's Sora, and overhauls its search engine, integrating more AI features.
Microsoft cuts 9,000 jobs for AI growth
Microsoft is laying off up to 9,000 employees as it heavily invests in AI, including an $80 billion expenditure on data centers to train AI models. While the company didn't specify affected divisions,
Grammarly secures $1 Bn for AI
Grammarly raises $1 Bn from General Catalyst to expand AI productivity platform capabilities, targeting its 40 million daily active users for enhanced communication tools and third-party integrations.
Thinking Machines Lab Secures $2 Bn
Mira Murati's AI lab raises $2B seed round (largest in Silicon Valley history) led by Andreessen Horowitz for agentic AI infrastructure development. Founded by former OpenAI CTO in just six months.
Meta's $15 bn Scale AI Deal Controversy
Meta invests $15B in Scale AI (49% stake) and hires CEO Alexandr Wang to lead new Superintelligence Labs. The deal avoids regulatory scrutiny but caused Google to terminate its Scale AI relationship.
Philippines to Invest PHP 2.6 bn in AI
DOST announces PHP2.6 billion investment in AI projects across healthcare, education, and disaster management till 2028. The Philippines climbed from 65th to 56th place in the AI Readiness Index.
Alibaba Global AI Hub launch - Singapore
Alibaba Cloud is expanding its AI infrastructure in Asia, launching an AI Global Competency Centre (AIGCC) in Singapore and new data centers in Malaysia and the Philippines.
Supabase MCP vulnerability identified
The Model Context Protocol is often referred to as a secure method for LLM agents to access data and tooling across an ecosystem. This example illustrates certain design considerations to keep in mind
AI Agents from First Principles
A well structured resource for understanding AI Agents from a fundamental level.
Safety Testing Starter Kit for LLM Apps
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P1 AI Raises $23M for Superintelligence
P1 AI has raised $23 million led by Radical Ventures to develop “Archie,” an AI agent for automating engineering tasks in physical system design.
Qualcomm’s Alphawave Bid Deadline Extend
The UK Takeover Panel has extended Qualcomm’s deadline to make a formal bid for British AI chipmaker Alphawave to May 12.
Hugging Face Launches $100 Robotic Arm
Hugging Face has released the SO-101, a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm starting at $100. The SO-101 is easier to assemble than its predecessor, features improved motors.
Groq accelerates Meta Official Llama API
Meta and Groq have partnered to deliver the official Llama API, now accelerated by Groq’s purpose-built inference chips. This API offers first-party access to Llama 4 and other models with high speed.
Microsoft Invests $1.6 bn in Indonesia
Microsoft has announced a $1.6 billion investment over four years to build new AI and cloud infrastructure in Indonesia, marking its largest-ever commitment in the country.
DeepSeek Rushes R2 Model Launch
Chinese startup DeepSeek is fast-tracking the release of its next-generation AI model, aiming to build on the momentum of its R1 model launched in January 2025.
Nebius expands AI Cloud via Singapore
Nebius is expanding its AI infrastructure into Southeast Asia, selecting Singapore as a key regional hub to boost AI adoption and support startups.
Indonesia's Populix Raises $4.3M SeriesB
Indonesian research startup Populix has secured US$4.3 million in Series B funding led by MSW V Asia Fund X.
Sarvam AI gets 4k GPUs for Indian LLM
Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI has been chosen by the Indian government, from 400 submissions, to develop the India’s first foundational large language model under the ₹10,000-crore IndiaAI Mission.
Alibaba Drops Qwen 3 Open-Source Models
Alibaba has released Qwen 3, a suite of open-source AI models with advanced hybrid reasoning, available on Hugging Face and GitHub.
Apple invests $1 bn on NVIDIA GB300s
Apple has announced a $1 billion investment in AI-focused data centers, signaling its entry into the competitive AI infrastructure market.
Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X for $45 bn
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has acquired the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) in a $45 billion deal.
OpenAI to Launch Open-Weight AI Model
Sam Altman has announced plans to release a new open-weight AI model with advanced reasoning capabilities. This will be OpenAI’s first open-weight model since GPT-2 in 2019.
Qualcomm Acquires VinAI's GenAI Division
Qualcomm has acquired the generative AI division of VinAI, a Hanoi-based startup backed by VinGroup, for an undisclosed amount. VinAI specializes in AI-powered automotive solutions.
Tencent Launches Hunyuan T1
Post their speed-focused Hunyuan Turbo S release, Tencent has launched the Hunyuan T1 model for cost-efficient reasoning and complex tasks.
Manus Agent gets Claude 3.7 upgrade
Manus Agent gets upgraded with Claude 3.7 Sonnet as well as launched 2 subscriptions plans starting $39 per month.
UMC Unveils $5 Bn Fab in Singapore
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has officially opened a new semiconductor fab facility in Singapore, with production starting in 2026.
Korean AI Startup WRTN Raises $73.5 mn
South Korean AI startup WRTN has raised $73.5 million in a Series B funding round, setting a record for non-semiconductor-focused AI platforms in South Korea.
Reliance explores OpenAI, Meta collab
Reliance Industries is reportedly discussing partnerships with OpenAI and Meta to expand AI capabilities in India.
Google Unveils Ironwood - 7th-Gen TPU
Google has launched Ironwood, its 7th-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), purpose-built for large-scale AI inference. Announced at Google Cloud Next 2025, Ironwood delivers up to 42.5 exaflops.
Meta Launches Llama 4 family
Meta has unveiled the Llama 4 family - Scout, Maverick, Behemoth - the first open-weight, natively multimodal models with mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture and unprecedented context length.
ChatGPT’s AI Action Figure Trend
A new viral trend lets users transform their photos into AI-generated action figures using ChatGPT’s image tools.
Ilya’s SSI Snags $2B at $32B valuation
Founded in June 2024 by Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy, SSI’s sole focus is building a “safe superintelligence.” The $2B round was led by Greenoaks, with Lightspeed and Andreessen Horowitz.
Grab Agentic AI for merchants & drivers
Grab has launched agentic AI tools—the AI Merchant Assistant and AI Driver Companion—to boost productivity for Southeast Asian merchants and drivers.
Grab Unveils AI features for users
Grab’s inaugural GrabX event unveiled AI-powered features for safety, convenience, and value, including “Grab for Family | Teens” with PIN and GenAI AudioProtect,
Vietnam & Indonesia Lead SEA AI race
A Lazada/Kantar report shows Vietnam and Indonesia leading Southeast Asia in AI adoption among online sellers (42%), surpassing Singapore and Thailand (39%).
AI for India 2030 initiative
The "AI for India 2030" initiative, led by the Indian government, NASSCOM, and the World Economic Forum, aims to harness AI for $500 billion in economic growth by 2030.
20% iPhones will be built in India
Apple has sharply increased iPhone manufacturing in India, producing $22 billion worth in the year through March 2025.
Apple Intelligence comes to India
Apple has rolled out its AI-powered Apple Intelligence features in India with the iOS 18.4 update, available on iPhone 16 series and iPhone 15 Pro models.
Sharechat’s SEA AI Center in Singapore
ShareChat, an Indian social media platform, has launched its first Southeast Asia AI Centre of Excellence in Singapore.
Salesforce to invest $1bn in Singapore
Salesforce will invest USD 1 billion in Singapore over the next five years to accelerate digital transformation and AI adoption.
Meta launches Llama incubator
Meta, in collaboration with the Singapore government, has launched the Llama Incubator Program to boost AI innovation.
HP launches On Edge AI incubator
HP Garage 2.0 is an incubator designed to fuel groundbreaking startup ideas, providing resources, ecosystem access, and mentorship.
SAP Labs to train AI talent in Singapore
SAP Labs Singapore is collaborating with NUS to train and hire 9 AI researchers by 2030.
Heineken’s Global GenAI Lab in Singapore
Heineken has launched its first Global Generative AI (GenAI) Lab in Singapore in partnership with AI Singapore.
Nebius eyes Singapore as regional hub
The AI data centre market is booming in Southeast Asia. Recent significant investments by tech giants such as Microsoft, Nvidia and Google underline the region's strategic importance in AI infra.
A practical guide to building AI agents
Large language models are becoming increasingly capable of handling complex, multi-step tasks. Advances in reasoning, multimodality, and tool use have unlocked a new category of LLM-powered systems
Awesome AI Agents
A directory of practical and usable AI agents resources from applications and platforms to frameworks and utilities and other parts of the growing ecosystem.
AI Agent Index
The first public database of deployed AI Agent Systems, compiled by MIT
AWS Generative AI Accelerator
Accelerate your Generative AI startup in just 10 weeks.
Google AI First
AI-focused accelerator bring the best of Google to early-stage startups using artificial intelligence, machine learning and Cloud technology.
Intel Liftoff for Startups
Intel Liftoff for startups is a free virtual program, open to early-stage AI and machine learning startups.
Artificial Intelligence Playbook (UK)
The AI Playbook for the UK Government expands and supercedes the Generative AI Framework for Government, released in January 2024. Its scope goes beyond Generative AI to include all AI initiatives.
Compilation of LLM Benchmarks and Datase
The team behind Evidently has compiled and maintained a list of 100+ AI benchmarks.
International AI Safety Report
The International AI Safety Report is the world's first comprehensive synthesis of current literature on the risks and capabilities of advanced AI systems.
Expanded ASEAN Guide on AI Governance
This document was developed on the basis of extensive literature review and reflects extensive consultations conducted between the ASEAN member States.
MIT AI Risk Repository
A comprehensive living database of over 1000 AI risks categorised by their cause and risk domain.
AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 talks
14 videos from leaders in the AI field.
Smol Agents by HuggingFace
smolagents is a library that enables you to run powerful agents in a few lines of code
Build anything with DeepSeek v3
Deepdive into DeepSeek v3 and how you can build anything with it.
Customer case studies from OpenAI
Useful collection of customer case studies from OpenAI
Case Studies from Anthropic
Useful collection of customer case studies from Anthropic
Building effective agents from Anthropic
A useful blog post from Anthropic research on building agentic AI solutions
AI Agents and Agentic Reasoning
Andrew Ng Explores The Rise Of AI Agents And Agentic Reasoning in Snowflake BUILD 2024 Keynote.
Bipartisan (US) report on AI
The US House of Representatives released a report on AI in December 2024
Assessing potential future AI risks
OECD paper on AI, Nov 2024. Covers key risks and benefits
Building RAI - Why Guardrails Matter
Gabriel writes about GovTech's thinking and approach to building guardrails.
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Visualisation of the internals of a LLM
GitHub Copilot - more LLM choices
Microsoft’s GitHub will let developers choose large language models from Anthropic and Google to power the GitHub Copilot Chat coding assistant, alongside models from OpenAI.
Claude LLM crash course
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Generative AI Video Prompt Guide (eBook)
Inside this guide, you'll discover: Essential success factors Prompt structures and formats The secrets to crafting effective prompts Real-world examples and techniques A glimpse into the future of AI
We Built THREE AI Apps in 58 mins
In this tutorial, you'll learn how use Replit agents to build powerful apps using only AI - no coding experience required! Watch as Mark and I create 3 fully functional AI apps in under an hour.
Forrester’s Predictions 2024
Sixty Percent Of Generative AI Skeptics Will Embrace The Technology — Knowingly Or Not
Learn LLM in 2 weeks for free
List of resources to read all about LLMs and start building for free.
OpenAI Swarm: A Multi-Agent Framework
OpenAI released an open-source framework for ergonomic, lightweight multi-agent orchestration. Swarm aims to make agent coordination and execution lightweight, highly controllable, and easily testable
DALL-E 3 All in One [Free eBook]
A comprehensive guide to AI image styles, crafted by Tianyu Xu, generative AI practitioner who has generated over 30k images and 10k AI videos. This ebook is the 4th edition.
CSA guidelines of securing AI Systems
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore has released guidelines on securing AI systems. It takes reference from ISO27001, NIST, OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, and PDPA.
build an IOS app with AI in under 33 min
Dive deep into the process of building IOS apps only using AI. Riley shares his process and demonstrates how to use tools such as V0, Cursor AI and Xcode to build and deploy apps in hours
Build Anything with Replit Agent
Learn how to build advanced AI Agents
How to Put Yourself Inside an Ai Movie
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Meta Movie Gen usher in a new AI-era
Meta Movie Gen could usher in a new AI-enabled era for content creators. Movie Gen sets a new standard for immersive AI content. It offers Video generation, Personalized Videos & Precise video editing
OpenAI launches canvas a new way to work
OpenAI launches Canvas, a new way of working with ChatGPT to write and code, beyond simple chat. Canvas opens in a separate window, allowing you and ChatGPT to collaborate on a project.
Google AI Essentials on Coursera
Google AI Essentials Learn from experts at Google and get essential AI skills to boost your productivity with Google AI Essentials, zero experience required.
OpenAI raises $6.6B, now valued at $157B
OpenAI today announced that it raised $6.6 billion in a funding round that values OpenAI at $157 billion post-money. Led by previous investor Thrive Capital
Build a fullstack kids AI storybook gen
Build and deploy a full stack AI-powered kids story generator app using Next.js, React, NextUI, and TypeScript! 🚀📚 Learn how to create a fun and interactive app from scratch, and see how AI can help
OpenAI goes from research to for-profit
OpenAI was a research lab — now it’s just another tech company Only three of OpenAI’s 11 cofounders, including Sam Altman, remain at the company.
AI vs AI Podcast
Generated by Google's NotebookLM, this is a deep dive series on the latest generative AI advancements, drawing insights from Tianyu Xu's books, articles, social media posts and emerging AI trends.
Anti-hype LLM reading list
A curated list of practical, no-nonsense, learning resources for understanding LLM concepts.
Introducing Llama 3.2
Llama 3.2 is a multimodal LLM with tool calling capabilities. This course is free for a limited time and taught by Amit Sangani from Meta.
OpenAI rolling out Advanced Voice Mode
OpenAI announced it is rolling out Advanced Voice Mode (AVM), The audio feature, which makes ChatGPT more natural to speak with, will initially roll out to customers in ChatGPT’s Plus and Teams tiers.
Adopt AI Study EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DG CNECT commissioned a study on how best to support public procurement of AI systems in the European Union and help to transform public procurement processes themselves.
OpenAI to launch an iPhone rival?
Former Apple top boss Jony Ive working with Sam Altman on secret project collaboration with OpenAI on a new AI hardware project. This could be a rival for iPhone powered by AI.
DALL-E Masterclass
This course empowers you to master DALL-E 3 across various platforms, crafting powerful prompts, building custom GPTs, generating high quality visuals, and creating consistent marketing materials
Ai framework for building websites
AI to build website using AI flow as a copilot.
ChatGPT o1 building a company via prompt
Is ChatGPT o1 REALLY that good? Here's how I built a company strategy in 8 minutes on first try.
Generate full-stack web apps from prompt
Marblism (https://marblism.com), an LLM-based dev platform to generate and iterate on full-stack web apps. Check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TapOPO-Gv20
No major AI model is safe
No major AI model is safe, but some do better than others, Anthropic Claude 3.5 shines in Chatterbox Labs safety test
Hands-on Large Language Models
A great resource for anyone interested in a solid grasp of LLMs.
Tech Giants' True Data Center Emissions
Tech Giants' True Data Center Emissions, 662% Higher Than Reported: Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally.
Supermaven raises funds
AI coding assistant Supermaven raises cash from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders
Section School
Build your advantage in Business and AI on Section - the unlimited MBA-quality online business school.
Build an AI Agent that does EVERYTHING f
how to set up a no-code personal assistant agent that can handle tasks like managing your calendar, email inbox, updating your CRM, sending emails, and even scheduling meetings
Build Anything with "OpenAI o1" model
Learn how to use the new OpenAI o1 model and build anything with it.
Introducing Small Language Models
In this article, I offer a basic intro to Small Language Models (SLMs), including references to get started, and discuss why SLMs are crucial for mobile and edge devices.
Will ChatGPT Take My Job (Japanese)
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Sony Research and AI Singapore Collab
Sony Research and AI Singapore Sign MOU to Conduct Collaborative Research on Large Language Models for Southeast Asian Languages (Sealion).
Demystified explanation of LLMs
Spotify CTO gives a super accessible explanation of LLMs, transformers and Gen AI terms
Introducing OpenAI o1
Introducing OpenAI o1, a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. Here is the latest news on o1 research, product and other updates.
AI Verify Moonshot
Moonshot is one of the first tools to bring Benchmarking and Red-Teaming together to help AI developers, compliance teams and AI system owners evaluate LLMs and LLM applications.
PaperQA’s smart scientific research repo
High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations.
Language agents do superhuman synthesis
PaperQA, an open-source AI literature review, whose research paper claims it achieves superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge.
GenAI Intro for Non Tech Leaders
In this episode, Nivedan talks about the hype around AI, how AI can transform our everyday lives, the basics of ChatGPT, the contributions of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg & Sam Altman in this field.
Google Gemini Everything u need to know
Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the generative AI models Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, its flagship suite of generative AI models, apps, and services. But what’s Gemini?
Amazon Alexa Is Getting Claude AI in Oct
Amazon Alexa Is Getting Claude AI in October Revamp. Alexa's much-anticipated revamp, which could involve a paid subscription, will reportedly rely on Anthropic's Claude AI.
MLOps: From Models to Production
This course is designed to bridge the gap between academic ML concepts and the practical challenges of implementing these technologies in the real world.
Tools and metrics for trustworthy AI
OECD's list of tools and metrics out there that help AI actors to build and deploy AI systems that are trustworthy.
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with
From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI
Google Illuminate
Google Illuminate transform your content into engaging AI-generated audio discussions.
The road to autonomous intelligence
Andrej discusses the evolution of self-driving cars, comparing Tesla and Waymo’s approaches, and the technical challenges ahead
How to Create Ai Videos of Yourself
Here's a simple tutorial on how to put yourself into an Ai video. We'll start by training a personalized Ai image generator that generates images of you. Then we'll animate those personalized images
How To Build An AI Chat App With Cursor
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Data Analysis with LLMs and Python
Learn how to analyze multimodal data with LLMs and Python. This tutorial covers: - Classifying text with LLMs - Answering questions about images - Transcribing audio data (speech) to text
How To on AI Tools you’ll use everyday
AI Tools You’ll Use Everyday (And How To Use Them) Here are the AI tools that actually changed how I work.
LLaMA-Factory
Easy tool to fine-tune a wide-range of LLMs
RAG With Llama 3.1 8B, Ollama, and Langc
Learn to build a RAG application with Llama 3.1 8B using Ollama and Langchain by setting up the environment, processing documents, creating embeddings, and integrating a retriever.
AInspirations
We aim to be the most definitive AI newsletter in Asia, giving a voice to and shining the spotlight on Asian AI influencers, news, trends, events, courses, jobs and more.
Hugging Face's Computer Vision Course
This course will teach you about computer vision ML using libraries and models from HF ecosystem
⚡️Fastest Pre-training Code: LLM in 9 da
We created an LLM that outperform OpenELM and Phi on MT-Bench, in just 9 days. It's built on the Lightning framework with optimisations from TinyLlama, achieving ultra high throughput (~99.6% GPU util
AI Prompt Engineering: Deep Dive
AI Prompt Engineering Deep Dive Video from Anthropic
The 100 most influential people in AI
The 100 most influential people in AI (2024) published by the Time Magazine.
Build an AI agent
Build an AI Agent Team That Does EVERYTHING for You! (No-Code)
The Next AI Tool
The Next AI Tool is a directory of over 43K AI tools
Applied-AI
A repository of curated use cases, articles, blogs, and videos on how companies use Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the real world. PRs welcome!
Generative UI for home automation
A generative UI demo for home automation from Vercel labs.
Anthropic Courses
An interactive course repository from Anthropic covering API, Prompt Engineering and Tools
Alibaba Cloud Startup Catalyst Program
Accelerate your company's growth with resources from Alibaba Cloud. Sign up by 1 Sep to be considered for an exclusive Demo Day at the Apsara Conference (Alibaba Cloud's annual flagship event)
Gen AI for Product Managers
An introductory, hands on course for product managers that assumes no prior background in AI or Gen AI.
The Batch
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AI Tidbits
Stay ahead on the latest in AI through weekly summaries and editorial deep dives providing unique perspectives.
The Rundown AI
Get the latest AI news and learn how to apply it in 5 minutes.
The Neuron
Get all the latest AI News, Tools and How-to's to be more impactful at work and run your business more efficiently.
AI: Beyond The Buzz
Tim Moylan shares the latest AI news, productivity tools, and how to use AI at work from Asia and around the world.
New AI Accelerator launches in Singapore
Ignition AI Accelerator to develop technical capabilities and expand application boundaries, spurring the next wave of AI advancement for global and local startups.
The Ignition AI Accelerator
This AI accelerator by Tribe and NVIDIA is designed to identify high-potential, growth-stage tech founders to accelerate their success and growth.
Advanced techniques for RAG systems
This repository showcases various advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. RAG systems combine information retrieval with generative models to provide accurate and context
Long Context RAG Performance of LLMs
Read how LLMs improve RAG performance upto a certain point with more documents, but, then different models show drop in performance differently.
Model Comparison: Quality & Performance
Comparison and analysis of AI models across key performance metrics including quality, price, output speed, latency, context window & others
KPMG: GenAI shifting how Leaders use AI
This is an interesting report from KPMG explaining how executives say that GenAI is already having a significant impact on how they are charting the course for their organisations.
Ultimate Optimizing RAG Playlist
Best set of resources on really understanding and optimizing real life production ready RAG systems from practitioners who mastered Information Retrieval and Search / Recommendation systems
Suno AI - How To Make A Full Song
In this video, I talk about Suno AI and how to make a full song in an easy step-by-step guide.
Code 259% Faster using Cursor + Claude
Cursor is a powerful new AI-powered code editor that makes coding much faster with the help of AI. In this video I will show you the fastest way to code with the best AI coding tools: Cursor and Claud
FLUX Image generation tutorial
Here's how to train your face into the new AI models using FLUX
Introduction to LLM-Quantization
A good introduction to quantization in LLMs with visualisations
WalledEval
WalledEval is a comprehensive AI safety testing toolkit designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs).
Introduction to Responsible AI
Starter’s guide to what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products.
Introduction to Generative AI
Learn what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods.
Generative AI with Large Language Models
Learn the fundamentals of how generative AI works, and how to deploy it in real-world applications.
Build AI Chatbots Without Programming
Create a useful chatbot without writing any code using Watson Assistant. Develop, test and deploy a chatbot to a WordPress website and interact with it.
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This deepfake of Ryan Gosling tells exactly how LLMs like chatGPT work in 8 mins.
How to run Stable Diffusion
Learn how to use Stable Diffusion, an advanced open-source deep learning model that generates high-quality images from text descriptions. This tutorial covers the basics of how the model works and ste
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The AI in Business Podcast is for non-technical business leaders who need to find AI opportunities, align AI capabilities with strategy, and deliver ROI.
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Will ChatGPT Take My Job?
This book takes a holistic approach to learning ChatGPT, going beyond just writing prompts. The authors advocate using AI to augment human skills rather than replace them.
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Enhancing Language Models with RAG
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Explore GenAI, prompt using photos, and more for kids, parents, and teachers.