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INVESTING IN ASIA’S NEXT GROWTH FRONTIER

Single founders, billion-dollar valuations: AI is minting unicorn startups at birth

But this is less so in Asia, where entrepreneurs seek profitability over valuations: Granite Asia’s Jenny Lee 

Jeffrey Tiong, co-founder and CEO of Patsnap, says there was some anxiety over GenAI when it came out.

Unicorn patent intelligence platform PatSnap harnesses GenAI and customer needs for growth

It has expanded across 50 countries and in key R&D centres such as Shanghai and London

The Shanghai-based firm listed in Hong Kong in January, joining a wave of Chinese AI firms flocking to public markets to fund expansion.

MiniMax plans China IPO as it eyes local rivals like DeepSeek

It is part of a group of Chinese AI firms racing to build and commercialise large language models

Singapore's patents, research grants, research and development intensity, as well as technical talent, all rank in the global top tier.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Singapore’s real startup problem is not funding

It is fundamentally a commercialisation gap, and if this is so, the country’s policy mix needs to reflect that

Gibran Huzaifah, founder of eFishery, allegedly engaged in financial misconduct, causing losses to the company and its investors.

Indonesia’s eFishery founder faces verdict in fraud case over alleged 70 billion rupiah losses

Prosecutors have sought a 10-year prison term and fine of 1 billion rupiah for Gibran Huzaifah

Tin Can has found a welcome reception at a time when parents, educators and lawmakers are searching for an antidote to constant screen time.

The hottest phone for kids right now is a US$100 landline

The phone lets people make free calls between Tin Cans and to emergency services

As part of transhipment and cargo flows, containers are moved between Singapore's terminals by feeder vessels, or via land using prime movers.

Singapore invites proposals on autonomous shipping, kicks off maritime startup competition

The move for suggestions is part of the Republic’s efforts to adopt autonomous technologies in maritime operations

The deal highlights the industry’s growing appetite for computing power to run inference - the process by which AI models generate responses.

OpenAI to spend more than US$20 billion on Cerebras chips, receive stake: The Information

OPENAI has agreed to pay chip startup Cerebras more than US$20 billion over the next three years to use servers powered by the company’s chips, under a deal that could also give the ChatGPT maker an e...

DeepSeek became an industry phenomenon in January 2025 after developing powerful AI models at what it said was a lower cost.

DeepSeek looks for data centre engineers in Inner Mongolia

It is the first time the company has publicly disclosed a data centre location