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Singapore’s tired of AI talk and waiting for a better pitch

For a start, we need to articulate which aspects of AI play to our strengths, where the opportunities lie and how to help the vulnerable.

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By anchoring compute infrastructure, specialised models and real-world applications, Singapore can position itself as South-east Asia’s AI control tower.

By anchoring compute infrastructure, specialised models and real-world applications, Singapore can position itself as South-east Asia’s AI control tower.

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Like many Singaporeans, reading the

Economic Strategy Review’s mid-term update

made me want to lie down.

That sense of fatigue revived a memory of laboriously plodding down

the icy Davos promenade in

January

. An endless row of blindingly bright pavilions by multinational corporations and national investment agencies all trying to invite you in, turned a leisurely evening stroll into a cold, cheerless trudge.

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