The Abu Dhabi-headquartered technology firm AppliedAI has announced its expansion into the Asia-Pacific with new offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong, alongside the launch of Opus 2.0, its platform for deterministic orchestration of frontier AI agents in regulated industries.

The firm said in a statement on Wednesday that the expansion follows a pre-Series B funding round backed by Mubadala and Arbor Ventures, and places AppliedAI at the center of Asia-Pacific’s most demanding regulatory environments in banking, public sector, and healthcare.

It is noted that enterprise adoption of AI agents remains stalled in regulated industries, with the vast majority of pilots failing to reach production.

The core obstacle is not capability but constraint: general-purpose agents operating on open-ended tasks cannot satisfy the auditability, reproducibility, and separation-of-duty requirements that regulators demand.

AppliedAI said Opus 2.0 addresses this by decomposing every enterprise process into a directed acyclic graph (DAG), where each node is a schema-enforced harness binding a frontier agent to hard-typed input and output contracts.

“AI is everywhere except the bottom line. Opus 2.0 is not a chatbot or a copilot,

“It is a digital labor force of frontier agents, deterministically orchestrated and harnessed to real process knowledge, built for the compliance demands of the world’s most regulated industries,” said Arya H. Bolurfrushan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AppliedAI.

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