Singapore

“I think, to be honest, the research here is, like, in Singapore is just basically, like, they just care about publishing papers and stuff like that and then it's not, like, impact-driven. I think, at U.S., it's mostly focused on impact-driven, and the thing ne…”

“The moratorium that Singapore had on data center built out that was lifted recently, obviously, you know, that's a forward-looking thing.”

“But we were thinking about access for startups. We were concerned about access by the research community. So we did set aside I think a reasonable budget in Singapore to make available compute capacity for these two groups in particular.”

“There was this interesting goal to increase the triple the number of AI practitioners, right? Which is part of the national AI strategy from 5000 to 15,000.”

“It is, in a way, a very specific set of requirements that we are putting in place, which is that in an election setting, we should only be shown saying what we actually said, or doing what we actually did, and anything else would be an assault. On factual accu…”

“And we don't have a law in place just yet. We've only introduced very recently a law that has yet to be passed. This is on AI-generated content, other synthetic materials that could be used during an election, but that's very specific to an election.”

“We could have gone for digital technologies. We could have gone for digital advancement. We could have gone for digital innovation, but ultimately we decided on digital development because it wasn't the technologies, the advancements, or the innovation that we…”

“Singapore was 15% of NVIDIA's revenue in Q three of 2024.”

“Next year I kind of have been pitching as our, the Olympics of Singapore year, in the sense that ICLR, one of the big machine learning conferences is coming.”

“You know, OpenAI is opening an office in Singapore, and how we can grow more AI engineers in Singapore as well, because I think, I do think that that is something that people are interested in, whether or not it's for their own careers or to hire out in Singap…”

“Keep in mind also that when you look at data center capacity in Singapore, relative to our GDP, relative to our population, it's already one of the most dense in the world.”

“I do think that to some extent, if you want to do research in, you need a little bit of peace and quiet somewhere, right? So this island may be good for that, but then you can, you're still, like, able to, like, be connected, right?”

“We're hiring, like, my team will work on like RL and reasoning for Gemini and Gemini deep thing. I think we care more about like talent density now. So we're not like also like growing that big, this small team first, just because compute per capita is probabl…”

“It's interesting that our, I talked to you about this, our number one city by user Is Singapore. Which is an interesting one, right? Not by revenue, just by, just like by individual headcount”

“I see this, somebody reposting a Facebook post from Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, where he did this whole write-up of how he's using Nanoclaw, his whole setup Memory system, ah, indexing, ah, deployment, running it in a Raspberry Pi, and he called …”