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AMD will acquire World Labs, an AI model and research lab led by Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion, the company said in a statement on Monday.

KJ Holdings, the holding company of Japanese education group Kawaijuku, has invested in Do Ventures Fund II, a fund run by a Vietnamese venture-capital firm, as it looks to build education businesses in Vietnam.

South Korea's Samsung and five affiliates will invest a combined $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, an AI-infrastructure company set up by private-equity firm KKR.

South Korea's Samsung Electro-Mechanics will invest KRW6.78 trillion won ($4.9 billion) to expand production of chip-packaging substrates in South Korea and Vietnam, its biggest bet yet on components for AI processors.

Ropedia, a Singapore-based physical-AI startup spun out of Nanyang Technological University, has launched a program giving academic researchers access to its wearable data-capture device.

VinFast, the electric vehicle (EV) maker under Vietnam's conglomerate Vingroup, will merge back in Tuong Lai, an affiliated firm it spun off a year ago, lifting its registered capital to about VND214 trillion ($8.2 billion).

VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (VSMC), a chipmaking joint venture between Taiwan's Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and Dutch group NXP Semiconductors, opened its first factory in Singapore on September 28, a $7.8 billion investment.

South Korea's LG Electronics has joined NVIDIA's partner network as a preferred supplier of power and cooling systems for AI data centers.

Temasek, a Singapore state-owned global investment company, has bought a 9 percent stake in FSI, an Italian growth-equity manager, and pledged to invest in its future funds.

The United States-based Elmet Group, recently buying a 4.99 percent stake in Vietnam's Masan High-Tech Materials (MSR), has also secured an exclusive right to negotiate bismuth purchase from MSR's Nui Phao mine.