Partnerships
MOUs, joint ventures, and Big Tech × Singapore deals.
EDB Q2 2026 Roundup: Singapore's AI Ecosystem Adds NVIDIA Lab, Sea CoE, and Sonar as National AI Missions Take Shape
Singapore's AI ecosystem added meaningful new infrastructure in the second quarter of 2026 — not just more data centres, but research labs, industry AI centres of excellence, and the institutional scaffolding to turn national AI strategy into sector-level outcomes. The Economic Development Board's quarterly...
AI Marketing Firm Brrandom Sets Up Singapore Centre of Excellence as It Expands Across ASEAN
Brrandom, an AI-native marketing technology company, is making Singapore its regional AI Centre of Excellence as it expands into Singapore and Indonesia with six new AI practice areas spanning ad tech, retail analytics, creative production, and agentic AI systems.
CuspAI and A*STAR partner to accelerate AI-driven materials discovery in Singapore
A*STAR and UK-based AI materials science company CuspAI have launched a five-year partnership to accelerate the discovery and validation of new materials for semiconductors, carbon capture, and advanced electronics. The collaboration involves A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, which houses Southeast Asia's first fully autonomous materials lab for metal-organic frameworks.
A*STAR and Bezos-Backed CuspAI Partner to Accelerate AI-Driven Materials Discovery in Singapore
Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has entered a five-year partnership with CuspAI, a frontier AI materials science company backed by Jeff Bezos, to accelerate the discovery and experimental validation of new materials using artificial intelligence and autonomous laboratories.
Dassault Systèmes confirms 2026 outlook, bets on AI with $1.8 billion ArisGlo...
French industrial software giant Dassault Systèmes is doubling down on life sciences AI with its largest acquisition in years, signalling that the intersection of artificial intelligence and drug development is becoming a mainstream battleground for enterprise software players. The deal comes as Singapore,...
HP Invests in Wubble.ai to Bring On-Device AI Audio Creation to Its PCs
When HP launched Garage 2.0 in Singapore last year, the program was designed to find startups building the next generation of AI-powered experiences for personal computing. The first cohort has now produced its first direct investment: HP has invested in Singapore-based Wubble.ai to develop an on-device AI...
AI Breakthroughs Could Slash Energy Demands, Temasek Says at Bloomberg Summit
Temasek's emerging technologies head says advances in AI architecture, chip design, and materials science could dramatically alter the sector's energy equation, even as the firm acknowledges its own carbon targets face headwinds from AI's rising power consumption.
Changi General Hospital and IBM Build AI-Powered Emergency Training Platform for Paediatric Crisis Response
Singapore's Changi General Hospital is partnering with IBM to develop an AI-powered training platform that uses mixed-reality simulations and watsonx.ai to prepare healthcare teams for paediatric mass-casualty incidents. The system analyses voice communications, treatment decisions, and coordination patterns — human factors that traditional manikin drills simply cannot measure at scale.
Singapore Armed Forces Partners IBM to Explore Quantum Computing for Mission Planning
Quantum computing has long been described as the next frontier in computational power, and Singapore's defence establishment is now taking active steps to understand how it can be put to practical use. On July 21, the Singapore Armed Forces' Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS), the Defence Science and...
UK's Winnow Acquires Singapore's Lumitics to Expand AI Food Waste Platform Across Asia-Pacific
London-based AI food waste company Winnow has acquired Singapore-founded Lumitics, bringing together two leading platforms for commercial kitchen sustainability across Asia-Pacific. Lumitics, founded in 2017 by Rayner Loi, deployed its computer vision and AI technology across more than 20 countries serving hotel groups including Accor, Marriott, and Four Seasons...
Singapore and Indonesia Launch Nongsa-Changi Subsea Cable to Power Regional AI Infrastructure
For all the talk about AI models and training data, the real bottleneck might just be the cables running under the sea. On July 20, Singapore and Indonesia marked the landing of the Nongsa-Changi Submarine Cable System — a 50-kilometre fibre-optic link between Batam and Changi designed to carry the data that...
NCS Unveils AI Education Partnerships and Plans to Hire 130 Practitioners
Singapore's tech talent pipeline is getting a targeted injection. NCS Group used its annual AI Impact conference to announce a slate of new education partnerships and a substantial hiring commitment — moves that signal the company is betting on homegrown expertise to meet the growing demand for enterprise AI...