Insights
Regularly scheduled news, articles and the latest developments in AI across Asia-Pacific — curated from industry thought leaders, latest announcements, and emerging trends.
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Indonesia’s Factories Roar Back as Asia’s AI-Driven Manufacturing Boom Broadens
Indonesia’s factories swung back into expansion in September, part of a broader Asia-wide manufacturing upswing that Reuters and S&P Global tie to surging AI-driven demand for chips and hardware.
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Singapore’s Supabase Raises $150M as AI Agents Drive a Database Boom
Singapore-based Supabase has raised $150M led by GIC and Google’s CapitalG, as AI coding agents now create 70% of its new databases every month.
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IBM and Yotta Bring Sovereign AI Agents to India’s Regulated Industries
IBM and Yotta Data Services have taken their joint agentic AI platform into general availability, giving Indian banks, government bodies, and manufacturers a way to run autonomous AI agents entirely within the country’s borders.
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Inside Tech Week Singapore 2026: Two Reporters, One Infrastructure Era
Tony Low and Joanna Tan compare notes from the show floor at Tech Week Singapore 2026, where 30,000-plus attendees traded the AI-experimentation era for the infrastructure that has to carry it.
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Inside Hong Kong’s 1823: How Four AI Tools Are Rewiring a 7.5-Million-Case Citizen Hotline
Hong Kong’s Digital Policy Office is rolling out four AI-powered upgrades to its 1823 citizen hotline, built on government-controlled cloud infrastructure and a local generative-AI research centre.
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Vietnam and India Deepen Ties to a Global Push for Open, Sovereign AI
Project Tapestry, the AI Alliance’s open consortium for sovereign AI, says Vietnam and India have each completed proofs of concept for culturally-aligned language models — without centralizing their data or compute abroad.
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Melbourne’s Heidi Raises $340M, Picks Singapore as Its APAC Base
Australian AI Care Partner platform Heidi has raised $340M at a $900M valuation and is backing a new Singapore hub with $8M over three years, a bet that the region’s clinicians are next in line for AI-assisted documentation.
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Selangor Bets on a Shared Sovereign Cloud to Build Malaysia’s First “AI City”
Malaysia’s Selangor state is piloting a sovereign digital infrastructure framework built by MCMC, mandating local data residency and pushing all 12 of its local councils onto one shared system to unlock AI-driven efficiency gains.
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Taiwan Levels Up Its Sovereign AI Push With a National Training Corpus
Taiwan’s sovereign AI strategy is entering a new phase — a growing local-language model, a fresh national training corpus, and a platform giving government agencies real model choice. Joanna Tan looks at how the pieces fit together.
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Thailand’s AI Bet: Build Your Own Model, Then Put It in Everyone’s Hands
Thailand is running a rare two-track sovereign AI strategy at once — a homegrown Thai-language model adopted by its biggest banks, and a national push to get 5 million citizens using AI fluently. Joanna Tan looks at how the two efforts reinforce each other.
