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CNA
4 days ago
- Business
- CNA
Firms must double down on digital transformation amid trade uncertainties: IMDA chief executive
The Infocomm Media Development Authority's chief executive Lew Chuen Hong has urged companies to double down on digital transformation, even amid mounting global trade uncertainties. He was speaking at the sidelines of the Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG) summit, reflecting on the country's role as a trusted player in the global tech ecosystem. Nicolas Ng reports.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
ATxEnterprise 2025 Boosts Global Participation, Reinforces Singapore's Responsible AI and Innovation Leadership
SINGAPORE, May 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ATxEnterprise (ATxE) 2025, Asia's leading enterprise technology event and part of the Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG) platform, concluded its fifth and most ambitious edition this week at Singapore EXPO. This year's edition saw a 5% increase in international participation from over 110 countries. This reflects growing recognition that AI adoption is a global imperative requiring cross-border collaboration, responsible governance, and inclusive innovation. During the three-day event, new partnerships with industry giants Alibaba Cloud, Prudential and ST Engineering were announced to give more local SMEs access to cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and cyber security. Announced at the opening of ATxEnterprise by Mr Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information, these new collaborations, in support of the nation's Digital Enterprise Blueprint (DEB), will equip businesses to accelerate the adoption of frontier technologies and strengthen cyber resilience with advanced AI capabilities. Mr Tan also launched two new talent programmes that will provide upskilling opportunities and create specialised AI career pathways for locals. These programmes will train AI practitioners ahead of demand as Singapore ramps up on accelerating Generative AI (GenAI) adoption across the enterprise ecosystem, strengthening the nation's position as a global AI hub. Spanning across twelve dedicated stages, the event united global tech leaders, policymakers, and innovators to explore emerging technologies. From GenAI and quantum computing to satellite infrastructure and cybersecurity, the message is clear: AI is transforming every sector, and must be scaled inclusively. Innovation and Partnerships Driving the Digital FrontierFlagship conferences such as the AI Summit Singapore brought together enterprise leaders, regulators, and researchers to explore responsible tech scaling and stronger digital infrastructure, through AI integration. Notable speakers from UBS, Deel, A*STAR, DHL, Ernst & Young, Mastercard, SingHealth, Singtel, and Dyson led sessions on topics, including AI governance, sector-specific use cases, and breakthroughs in natural language processing and quantum AI. SatelliteAsia, in partnership with Singapore Space & Technology Ltd. (SSTL) and the Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA), spotlighted the role of satellites in infrastructure, sustainability, and digital inclusion. Speakers from NASA, Kacific, Telesat, and ST Engineering iDirect discussed regional space ambitions and connectivity solutions. Recognising Impact, Shaping What's NextCapping off the week was the debut of the Enterprise Tech Awards, honouring digital transformation excellence. With 90 award submissions from 14 countries, the Awards spotlighted innovation in Healthcare, Cybersecurity, AI, Digital Solutions, GreenTech, and Government Services. Winners included NEC Asia Pacific, Starhub, Seagate, Globant, and ATxE 2025 also hosted a CISO Tech Briefing and Enterprise Tech Leaders Forum, where senior decision-makers discussed regulatory alignment, innovation, and enterprise resilience. Together, these programmes signalled ATxE's evolution from a showcase to a strategic convening ground for global leaders shaping the digital economy. This growing influence was reflected in the rise in international attendees and high-level engagement. "ATxE 2025 has set a new benchmark for enterprise innovation in Asia," said Joyce Wang, Event Director, Asia Tech x Singapore. "From breakthrough technologies to bold cross-sector partnerships, this year's edition proved that the region isn't just participating in the global tech conversation—it's leading it. It also reinforces Singapore's ability to host world-class MICE events that convene decision-makers, innovators, and global thought leaders. We're proud to provide a platform that turns ambition into action, and we look forward to delivering even greater impact in 2026." ATxE will return to the Singapore EXPO from 20 - 22 May 2026, continuing to shape the region's digital future through meaningful partnerships, actionable insights, and bold innovation. - ENDS - About Informa Festivals Informa Festivals is home to Informa's experience-led events. In five global and fast-moving markets, we inspire and celebrate business with events that deliver unique experiences, immersive activities, high-impact content, powerful connections and personal enrichment. Our leading international Tech festivals include London Tech Week, Africa Tech Fest and Asia Tech x Singapore. For more information, please visit View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Informa Festivals
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Black Sesame Technologies Showcases Robotics Innovation at Asia Tech x Singapore
SINGAPORE, May 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- From May 27-29, Black Sesame Technologies (Stock Code: a leading automotive-grade computing SoC and Soc-based intelligent vehicle solution provider, made its grand debut at Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG) at the Singapore EXPO Convention Center. In the TechXLR8Asia zone (Booth 4N2-5) dedicated to AI, IoT and edge computing, the company showcased its full-stack solutions for robotics, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and edge intelligence. Leveraging years of expertise in the automotive industry, Black Sesame Technologies has expanded into robotics and edge computing through its proprietary IP cores, algorithms, and software ecosystems. The company's Huashan A1000/A2000 and Wudang C1200 chip families deliver high performance, reliability and cost efficiency, serving as core computing engines for ADAS, robotics, edge AI and consumer electronics. These solutions have empowered leading global automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. At the exhibition, Black Sesame Technologies highlighted its comprehensive robotics solutions: Pre-designed SOM Boards: Powered by Huashan A1000/Wudang C1200 chips, providing scalable, energy-efficient hardware foundations that reduce development cycles Developer Kit/ Evaluation Board: Ready-to-use platforms with ROS1/ROS2 compatibility enabling rapid prototyping for SLAM navigation and multi-sensor fusion Turnkey Solutions: End-to-end services from chip selection to structural manufacturing Edge-side LLM AI: Industry-first solution enabling localized inference and autonomous decision-making Since establishing its Singapore subsidiary in 2018, Black Sesame Technologies has built a team covering R&D, technical support, and business development. As a global operations hub, the Singapore team provides full lifecycle support for Southeast Asian clients from chip integration to deployment. "Southeast Asia is an emerging frontier for robotics applications, with strong demand in industrial automation, smart logistics and urban mobility," said Dr. Xu Jin, General Manager of Black Sesame Technologies Singapore. "We deliver not just high-performance hardware, but also algorithm optimization and customized solutions to help customers overcome complex challenges." Black Sesame Technologies will continue expanding partnerships across Southeast Asia to scale robotics applications in smart manufacturing, service robotics, and smart cities. The company also demonstrated a logistics robot prototype powered by its Wudang C1200 chip featuring edge-LLM enabled autonomous navigation. ContactFor business or technical inquiries:Black Sesame Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)Address: 01 Fusionopolis Walk, #04-05/06, Solaris South Tower, Singapore 138628Tel: +65 6908 2986Email: sg@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Black Sesame Technologies Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Korea Herald
6 days ago
- Business
- Korea Herald
Singapore's MERaLiON, Southeast Asia's empathetic Large Language Model, Breaks New Ground with Multilingual Processing and Emotional Intelligence
SINGAPORE, May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- At ATxSummit 2025, the flagship event of Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG), Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister for Digital Development and Information (MDDI), unveiled updates to Singapore's Large Language Model - Multimodal Empathetic Reasoning and Learning in One Network (MERaLiON) - and launched the MERaLiON Consortium, a significant boost to Southeast Asia's AI capabilities. She also announced new global initiatives and collaborations which strengthen Singapore's AI ecosystem and accelerate responsible AI adoption, putting Singapore at the forefront of efforts to operationalise AI safety. MERaLiON breaks new ground with enhancements and new Global Partnerships MERaLiON, a large language model developed by A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR I 2 R) and supported by IMDA, breaks new ground in regional AI capabilities with enhanced multilingual processing and emotional intelligence. The model now handles Malay, Tamil, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, and Vietnamese on top of English, Mandarin and Singlish, with advanced code-switching abilities and emotion recognition features. These improvements enable more intuitive and culturally aware AI applications in Southeast Asia, which could be applied to customer service, social service, and marketing. To accelerate adoption, IMDA and A*STAR I 2 R have launched the MERaLiON consortium, to bring together local and global industry players and research and development (R&D) institutions like HTX, MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT), NCS, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC), SPH Media and ST Engineering with technology companies like Axiom IT Solutions, BytePlus, CommonTown, DBS, Grab and Microsoft Singapore. The consortium will focus on developing practical AI applications, from multilingual customer support to health and emotional insight detection and agentic decision-making systems. Since its release in December 2024, MERaLiON's first version has garnered over 90,000 downloads globally, attracting users from corporate research labs, media service providers, startups, and academics. Advancing global conversations for a trusted AI ecosystem In the area of AI safety research, Singapore was the site of global cooperation in identifying and prioritising research domains through the "The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities" (The Singapore Consensus). This Consensus is a living document that will serve as the foundation for the ATxSG Government-to-Government (G2G) Ministerial Roundtable on Digital Trust which seeks to bridge science to policy, and translate technical research into practical policies, by facilitating meaningful conversations between AI scientists and policymakers. Singapore's enhanced AI Verify Testing Framework addresses both Generative AI (Gen AI) and traditional AI risks. In continued collaboration with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), we developed a crosswalk to map the enhanced Framework with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. This reaffirms the alignment between our two countries' AI governance frameworks and reflects our shared commitment to cooperation. Together, these initiatives underscore Singapore's commitment to building foundational infrastructure for AI safety development and testing that is grounded in scientific evidence to co-develop implementable, interoperable frameworks for responsible AI. Strengthening global digital trust partnerships Singapore's AI Safety Institute signed a Joint Statement with France's AI Safety Institute to kickstart collaboration and cooperation on AI safety and cooperation on 28 May 2025. The Joint statement was signed between MDDI, Mrs Josephine Teo, and French Minister Delegate of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologues, Mrs Clara Chappaz at ATx 2025. Singapore and US spearhead the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) Certification for businesses to facilitate trusted cross border data flows, providing access to 9 economies with about 40 trillion in market size. This was developed by the Global CBPR Forum, of which Singapore serves as deputy chair. Companies can apply for the new Certification from 2 June 2025, which will allow organisations to demonstrate compliance with internationally recognised data protection standards. Singapore's Enigma Health partners with Roche and ST Engineering Enigma Health, a spinoff from SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, signed two strategic partnerships on 27 May 2025, with Roche and ST Engineering's Enterprise Digital to expand its capabilities. This was announced by Mdm Rahayu Mahzam, Minister of State for Digital Development and Information at the "Scaling and Sustaining Healthcare with Gen AI" symposium held at ATxSG. These two new partnerships will accelerate clinical trials, market access, insights and business intelligence to help with patients' care and access to novel drugs and digital technologies. Enigma Health's flagship product, Enigma, is Singapore's home-grown sovereign healthcare agentic AI platform developed by a team of clinicians and AI scientists to improve workflow optimisation, streamlining data-intensive and time-consuming processes while ensuring robust data security and regulatory compliance. It has been piloted at SingHealth institutions. IMDA and Thailand's National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to combat telecommunications fraud across ASEAN. The MOU was exchanged between Ms Jasmin Lau, Minister of State at the Ministry of Digital Development and Information and Dr Sarana Boonbaichaiyapruck, Chairman of the NBTC at the sidelines of ATxSG 2025.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Singapore's MERaLiON, Southeast Asia's empathetic Large Language Model, Breaks New Ground with Multilingual Processing and Emotional Intelligence
Enhancements to MERaLiON will enable more intuitive and culturally aware AI applications in Southeast Asia and new Consortium with global partners to drive adoption Advancing global conversations through the Digital Ministers Roundtable and mapping of AI Verify Testing Framework and US NIST AI Risk Management Framework New sovereign healthcare agentic AI model, Enigma, sees significant results and partners with industry leaders to accelerate clinical trials and enhance patient care SINGAPORE, May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- At ATxSummit 2025, the flagship event of Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG), Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister for Digital Development and Information (MDDI), unveiled updates to Singapore's Large Language Model - Multimodal Empathetic Reasoning and Learning in One Network (MERaLiON) - and launched the MERaLiON Consortium, a significant boost to Southeast Asia's AI capabilities. She also announced new global initiatives and collaborations which strengthen Singapore's AI ecosystem and accelerate responsible AI adoption, putting Singapore at the forefront of efforts to operationalise AI safety. MERaLiON breaks new ground with enhancements and new Global Partnerships MERaLiON, a large language model developed by A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR I2R) and supported by IMDA, breaks new ground in regional AI capabilities with enhanced multilingual processing and emotional intelligence. The model now handles Malay, Tamil, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, and Vietnamese on top of English, Mandarin and Singlish, with advanced code-switching abilities and emotion recognition features. These improvements enable more intuitive and culturally aware AI applications in Southeast Asia, which could be applied to customer service, social service, and marketing. To accelerate adoption, IMDA and A*STAR I2R have launched the MERaLiON consortium, to bring together local and global industry players and research and development (R&D) institutions like HTX, MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT), NCS, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC), SPH Media and ST Engineering with technology companies like Axiom IT Solutions, BytePlus, CommonTown, DBS, Grab and Microsoft Singapore. The consortium will focus on developing practical AI applications, from multilingual customer support to health and emotional insight detection and agentic decision-making systems. Since its release in December 2024, MERaLiON's first version has garnered over 90,000 downloads globally, attracting users from corporate research labs, media service providers, startups, and academics. Advancing global conversations for a trusted AI ecosystem In the area of AI safety research, Singapore was the site of global cooperation in identifying and prioritising research domains through the "The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities" (The Singapore Consensus). This Consensus is a living document that will serve as the foundation for the ATxSG Government-to-Government (G2G) Ministerial Roundtable on Digital Trust which seeks to bridge science to policy, and translate technical research into practical policies, by facilitating meaningful conversations between AI scientists and policymakers. Singapore's enhanced AI Verify Testing Framework addresses both Generative AI (Gen AI) and traditional AI risks. In continued collaboration with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), we developed a crosswalk to map the enhanced Framework with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. This reaffirms the alignment between our two countries' AI governance frameworks and reflects our shared commitment to cooperation. Together, these initiatives underscore Singapore's commitment to building foundational infrastructure for AI safety development and testing that is grounded in scientific evidence to co-develop implementable, interoperable frameworks for responsible AI. Strengthening global digital trust partnerships Singapore's AI Safety Institute signed a Joint Statement with France's AI Safety Institute to kickstart collaboration and cooperation on AI safety and cooperation on 28 May 2025. The Joint statement was signed between MDDI, Mrs Josephine Teo, and French Minister Delegate of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologues, Mrs Clara Chappaz at ATx 2025. Singapore and US spearhead the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) Certification for businesses to facilitate trusted cross border data flows, providing access to 9 economies with about 40 trillion in market size. This was developed by the Global CBPR Forum, of which Singapore serves as deputy chair. Companies can apply for the new Certification from 2 June 2025, which will allow organisations to demonstrate compliance with internationally recognised data protection standards. Singapore's Enigma Health partners with Roche and ST Engineering Enigma Health, a spinoff from SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, signed two strategic partnerships on 27 May 2025, with Roche and ST Engineering's Enterprise Digital to expand its capabilities. This was announced by Mdm Rahayu Mahzam, Minister of State for Digital Development and Information at the "Scaling and Sustaining Healthcare with Gen AI" symposium held at ATxSG. These two new partnerships will accelerate clinical trials, market access, insights and business intelligence to help with patients' care and access to novel drugs and digital technologies. Enigma Health's flagship product, Enigma, is Singapore's home-grown sovereign healthcare agentic AI platform developed by a team of clinicians and AI scientists to improve workflow optimisation, streamlining data-intensive and time-consuming processes while ensuring robust data security and regulatory compliance. It has been piloted at SingHealth institutions. Singapore-Thailand alliance strengthens ASEAN's fight against telecom scams IMDA and Thailand's National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to combat telecommunications fraud across ASEAN. The MOU was exchanged between Ms Jasmin Lau, Minister of State at the Ministry of Digital Development and Information and Dr Sarana Boonbaichaiyapruck, Chairman of the NBTC at the sidelines of ATxSG 2025. CONTACT: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore Sign in to access your portfolio
