Deep Tech

Singapore will invest S$150 million in MARVEL-AI, an A*STAR-led platform combining artificial intelligence with automated laboratories for materials discovery.

GlobalFoundries, a semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in New York, has opened its Advanced Facilities Control Centre (AFCC) at its Singapore site.

HKEX has launched AI and semiconductor indexes and licensed the AI benchmark for planned exchange-traded funds in mainland China.

Japan-linked space startup Zero Industries has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to develop a laser-based power transmission network for satellites.

Preferred Networks and Tenstorrent will develop chiplet-based xPU technology in a five-year research project selected by Japan's NEDO.

South Korean AI infrastructure provider Elice Group fell sharply in its KOSDAQ debut after raising 201.1 billion won through an IPO.

Tenstorrent closed a $1.5 billion Series E at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation to expand AI systems, manufacturing and processor licensing.

GoTo has released a 27-billion-parameter model trained for Indonesian and several regional languages through its official Hugging Face repository.

China proposes adding 23 AI technologies to its export-control catalogue and has begun temporary registration for covered transfers.

HKPC and FLAIR have launched Hong Kong's first embodied AI applications hub for real-world robot training, validation and deployment.