The Silicon Valley-Singapore bridge: bringing AI to the world

[SINGAPORE] One evening in early April, I hosted a dinner at a long table in San Francisco. Three Singaporean chefs produced a tasting menu – layered courses that most of the room would taste for the first time.

Around the table sat a representative from an American chipmaker preparing a double-digit billion-dollar initial public offering (IPO) and its first Singapore expansion.

The representative sat alongside others from global frontier artificial intelligence labs, a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund invested in data centres and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), as well as a policy adviser from Standard AI.