Waymo’s Singapore entry raises the stakes for autonomous mobility in Asia

A customer in Jakarta spends 20 minutes explaining a billing dispute to a chatbot, gets bounced to a human agent, and has to start the story over from scratch. Multiply that across the millions of AI-mediated conversations happening daily across the region, and you get a sense of the trust deficit quietly building beneath Asia […] The post “AI amnesia” is quietly costing Southeast Asian brands their customers appeared first on e27.

China’s leading memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is gaining ground among local smartphone vendors, with some of its high-end chips finding their way into flagship Chinese handsets as vendors push into the premium market. ZTE-backed Nubia’s NaviX Ultra that went on sale on Wednesday used LPDDR5X DRAM chips from CXMT, the companies announced earlier this month. The handset was dubbed the Nubia Doubao phone due to its integration of TikTok parent ByteDance’s Doubao artificial...

China’s leading memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is gaining ground among local smartphone vendors, with some of its high-end chips finding their way into flagship Chinese handsets as vendors push into the premium market. ZTE-backed Nubia’s NaviX Ultra that went on sale on Wednesday used LPDDR5X DRAM chips from CXMT, the companies announced earlier this month. The handset was dubbed the Nubia Doubao phone due to its integration of TikTok parent ByteDance’s Doubao artificial...

Hang Ten Systems has raised an additional US$53 million in seed funding, just five weeks after closing its first seed round, as large enterprises search for ways to move artificial intelligence from experimentation into core operations. The new round was led by Xora, a Temasek-backed fund focused on AI and deep tech. Mayfield, which led […] The post Temasek-backed Xora leads Hang Ten’s US$53M seed round appeared first on e27.

Avengers, assemble!

Huawei Technologies said on Thursday that it would launch its next-generation artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2027, moving the target launch forward by nine months as the firm aggressively expands its ecosystem amid China’s self-sufficiency push. David Wang Tao, rotating and acting chairman for Huawei, said on Thursday that the Ascend 960DT chip, an AI chip designed for model training, “with performance doubling”, would be “ready in the first quarter of 2027”, three quarters...

Huawei Technologies said on Thursday that it would launch its next-generation artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2027, moving the target launch forward by nine months as the firm aggressively expands its ecosystem amid China’s self-sufficiency push. David Wang Tao, rotating and acting chairman for Huawei, said on Thursday that the Ascend 960DT chip, an AI chip designed for model training, “with performance doubling”, would be “ready in the first quarter of 2027”, three quarters...

Singtel’s AI Pass gives eligible learners access to six premium AI tools for up to six months, as Singapore expands its national push to build practical AI skills.

Databricks is putting more weight behind Singapore as large companies across Asia shift from experimenting with artificial intelligence to trying to run it safely inside their core operations. The US data and AI company said it will invest more than US$350 million in Singapore over the next three years, expand into a new 32,000-square-foot regional […] The post Databricks doubles down on Singapore with US$350M AI investment plan appeared first on e27.

The wide-ranging launch also covers air purifiers, floor cleaners and hair-care devices, alongside the camera-equipped CameraJet toothbrush.

Here’s a simple way to think about FinSight Ventures: it is a late-stage fund that likes the places most investors avoid, and it has a one-line rule for deciding when to write a cheque: 35 per cent a year, in dollars, or it walks. The US-based VC fund with operational hubs in Cyprus and India […] The post Why FinSight thinks Physical AI is mispriced by a decade of data, not dollars appeared first on e27.

Picture the scene. The lights dim. A drone shot. A cello. Employees smiling at the camera. Then the line: We are changing the world. The film was beautifully made. The investor picked up his phone ten seconds in. I didn’t set out to start a company over that. But a founder I was coaching kept […] The post Nobody gives you time to explain. That’s the real fundraising problem appeared first on e27.