Good morning,Here's Monday's edition of Asia AI News!Not much news to share today, so I'll start with a recap of India's AI strategy deliberations!It now seems possible that 2020 may close without a decision on the implementation of India's national artificial intelligence strate … | Continue reading
Good morning,Here's Tuesday's Asia AI News!India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi's gave an inaugural address at RAISE 2020 yesterday evening. The virtual event is being held under the theme of ‘Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020' and runs until Friday.You can watch Prime M … | Continue reading
Good morning,Here’s your first Asia AI News for this week!Lots of news to share from over the weekend. However, the biggest is probably the Reuters story confirming that the Trump administration is mulling whether to add China's largest chipmaker to its trade blacklist.SMIC, or S … | Continue reading
Good morning,Here’s Tuesday's Asia AI News!As expected, Monday was an eventful day on ChiNext, Shenzen’s Nasdaq-style start-up board. In total, 18 companies debuted on ChiNext, as the first round of listings under a new U.S.-style IPO system By lunchtime the debut tech IPO stocks … | Continue reading
Good morning,Here’s Monday's Asia AI News!18 companies will begin trading on Shenzen's Nasdaq-style start-up board - ChiNext - today in a first round of listings, under a new U.S.-style IPO system. The new IPO rules follow months of reforms aimed at fast-tracking initial public o … | Continue reading
Good morning,Here's the Friday edition of Asia AI News! It took me longer than usual due to work commitments, but I think that it was worth it!Scroll down to read more about Beijing's masterplan to invest an estimated 10 trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion) over six years in technology … | Continue reading
Good morning,Here's your Friday edition of Asia AI News.With the cancellation of the GSMA's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona late Wednesday, it has become clear to all that the coronavirus is having a significant impact on global business outside of Asia. This is unlikely to be … | Continue reading
Good morning,Lots of announcements coming out of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai this week, including economic, FDI and industry initiatives. However, not much detail in the English language media, as yet, about these, nor on the respective announcers' we … | Continue reading
Good morning,Well, a pretty quiet week so far for AI deals and investments. Meanwhile, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2019 begins today in Shanghai, although there were some meetings and presentations yesterday.Yesterday's WAIC press release informed that the agenda … | Continue reading
Good morning,Here's a digest of news from over the weekend.This is the week a lot have been waiting for - and perhaps the biggest public outing for China's emerging technology leaders this year. The World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2019) starts on Thursday, bringing … | Continue reading
Good morning,Light on the startup and funding news today, but there's still a lot of interesting comment and features from the past 24 hours.One interesting little snippet is that the government in Ulanqab in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is investing in a new data cen … | Continue reading
Good morning,Some interesting news to end the week!Taiwan-born American computer scientist and investor Kai-Fu Lee has made a bold claim this week, saying that his Beijing-based VC firm’s new AI development startup AInnovation should be able to IPO at $1 billion in two years time … | Continue reading
All commentators seems to agree that the US-China trade war is going to be long, slow and painful. Sure, it's complicated - affecting trade, economics, currencies, investment, innovation, diplomacy, geopolitics, security - but which ever way the ongoing dispute between the two su … | Continue reading
Good morning!Well, it's a potpourri of AI and emerging tech news today, with no big venture capital deals to speak of. Indian AI-based mediatech startup Spyne raised and undisclosed amount of seed funding. That's about it.There is a review of Softbank's Vision 2 funding efforts i … | Continue reading
There's a lot of talk about unicorns this week, since market intelligence firm CB Insights released its venture capital stats a few days ago. 'Unicorn' generally refers to a privately held startup valued at more than $1 billion.CB Insights estimates that there were 380 unicorns g … | Continue reading
Good morning!Some interesting AI news and comment over the weekend (even if one ignores all the critiques of Peter Thiel's NYT opinion piece!).A few Asia AI stories below including some startup news from India and Hong Kong. A number of stories about AI in India, including an upd … | Continue reading
No major AI startup funding news yesterday. In fact, it's been a relatively quiet week for AI startup funding announcements all round. However, it has been an absolutely mega week for tech fund raising!Shanghai Stock Exchange's much-hyped tech board, STAR Market, opened for tradi … | Continue reading
Here's a very mixed bag of news in today's email. Some funding news, some policy news and the launch of Singapore Management Universities Smart Cities business plan competition.Aside from the $70 billion dollar progress report on SoftBank Group's Vision 2 Fund, the biggest AI fu … | Continue reading
Global coverage of STAR Market's stellar trading debut continues, however questions are now being raised about its future after all but four of the 25 firms that debuted on the tech board saw their share price fall by or during day two. However, others are still convinced of the … | Continue reading
Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market opens this morning, with twenty-five companies expected to begin trading and another 100+ pending regulatory approvals. Will the new Nasdaq-style high-tech board become a playground for social media fueled speculation or will it focus emergin … | Continue reading