Asia

The demand for artificial intelligence (AI) roles is expected to increase in 2024, with top three roles being sought after are artificial intelligence (AI) engineer, AI mentor or trainer, data scientist and analyst, Southeast Asia talent platform Glints said in a report on Tuesday.

Japanese telecommunications and information technology (IT) firm SoftBank Corp. has inked deal to acquire 51 percent stake in Dublin-based car software firm Cubic Telekom Ltd. for approximately EUR 473 million ($512 million).

360 ONE Asset Management Limited (formerly known as IIFL Asset Management Limited) (360 ONE AMC) has committed to invest $16 million in CoreEL Technologies (India) Private Limited (CoreEL), an India-based technology development, systems engineering and products manufacturing company focusing on aerospace and defence segment.

Queensland government-owned investment firm Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has expanded its international presence with a new Singapore office established to support a greater focus on Asian-based institutional investors.

Allied Climate Partners (ACP), International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Temasek announced today the intent to establish a green investments partnership to address climate finance gaps and increase the bankability of green and sustainable projects in Asia, with an initial focus on Southeast Asia.

Alibaba Cloud has open-sourced two large language models (LLM), Qwen-72B and Qwen-1.8B, the 72-billion-parameter and 1.8-billion-parameter versions of its proprietary foundation model Tongyi Qianwen, on its artificial intelligence (AI) model community ModelScope, and the collaborative AI platform Hugging Face.

Malaysian multinational telecommunications conglomerate Axiata Group Berhad has announced that it had entered into an unconditional sale and purchase agreement with Spectrlite UK Limited for the sale of Reynolds Holding Limited which owns approximately 80 percent equity stake in Ncell Axiata Limited (Ncell).

Gogoro Inc., a Taiwan-based technology leader in battery-swapping ecosystems that enable sustainable mobility solutions for cities, has announced the commercial launch and availability of its smartscooters and battery swapping ecosystem in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

Dozens of green technologies are now lower cost than incumbent technologies across the emerging world, sparking a wave of new green investments that could potentially reach $330B per year over the next decade and spur green development, said a report on Thursday.

LeapFrog Investments, the profit with purpose firm based in United Kingdom, has announced investment from Temasek and support from the European Investment Bank for its strategy to deploy $500 million to address climate change in Africa and emerging Asia.