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This year’s BEYOND Expo attracted more than 800 companies, 800 investors and 25,000 visitors, across sectors from AI, HealthTech and Clean Energy to Robotics and SportsTech, making it the biggest BEYOND Expo yet and one of the largest annual pan-Asian technology gatherings.

Global miner BHP will establish its first industry AI hub in Singapore to accelerate digital transformation and AI adoption in the mining and resources sector.

Chinese multinational technology company Alibaba Group and German multinational software firm SAP SE announced Wednesday a strategic partnership to jointly accelerate enterprise innovation and digital transformation through advanced cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

Myntra, an India-based fashion, beauty and lifestyle e-commerce firm, has announced the launch of Myntra Global, and is set to bring Indian fashion to Singapore.

Airwallex, the global payments and financial platform, has completed a $300 million Series F funding round at a $6.2 billion valuation.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has partnered with HashKey Group, a Hong Kong-based digital asset financial services group in Asia, to accelerate Web3 innovation and drive business growth.

PHASE Scientific International Limited, a Hong Kong-based biotechnology company, announced Tuesday the successful completion of a $34 million Series A funding round.

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Arm and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) announced last Thursday that Arm and SBG will contribute $15.5 million to CMU to support its partnership with Keio University (Keio), a collaboration to accelerate the global advancement of artificial intelligence (AI).

Taiwan-based Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) announced Monday that it is partnering with NVIDIA and to build a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) Factory supercomputing center in Taiwan.

Western Digital and Ingrasys, a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, announced Thursday a strategic collaboration to deliver a new flagship Top-of-Rack (TOR) switch with embedded storage.