Temasek-backed BasisAI unpacks AI 'black box'

Singapore

ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) startup BasisAI is still developing prototypes of its solutions, but it has already assembled a marquee slate of seed investors in Temasek Holdings and Sequoia India.

It helps that the company is going after one of the most important problems in AI, and that its three co-founders have one of the most valuable assets for young deep-tech startups: pedigree.

Liu Feng-Yuan, 37, a President's Scholarship recipient and Oxford University alum, was until last year director of the data science and AI division of GovTech Singapore.

Mr Liu's co-conspirators are twin brothers Linus and Silvanus Lee. Mr Linus Lee was among the pioneer batch of data scientists at Twitter, and was most recently the social media giant's head of data science for Asia-Pacific. His brother was director and he…