Deep Tech

Lawrence Wu of Agora argues that China’s embodied AI competition is shifting from model demonstrations toward deployment reliability, modular architectures and faster real-world iteration.

Advanced precision engineering and smart manufacturing firm SkyGate NHJ Technology Sdn. Bhd. has officially opened its new manufacturing facility in the Perai Free Industrial Zone, Penang, marking a step further in the company’s commitment to establishing a technology-driven precision engineering operation in Malaysia.

Indian space technology company Pixxel has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by Temasek and Seraphim Space Investment Trust.

Tencent has open-sourced Hy4 preview, a 770-billion-parameter model with 49 billion active parameters and a one-million-token context window.

Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, extending its reach into the global ecosystem for open AI models, datasets and developer tools.

SEMI and Silicon Catalyst have formed a partnership at SEMICON Taiwan to expand startup programs, investor engagement, and industry connections across semiconductor markets.

TRUMPF says its HiPIMS coating technology can improve the reliability of through-glass vias, a manufacturing challenge for emerging AI-chip packaging designs.

Singapore and Brazil have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish the Singapore-Brazil Green and Digital Shipping Corridor (GDSC), the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said on Friday.

Malaysia's approved investments grew 11.7 percent year on year to MYR 218.5 billion ($54.27 billion), underpinned by data center and cloud projects, official data showed on Friday.

Groundup.ai, the Singapore-based industrial machine intelligence company, has been awarded a tender by Public Utilities Board (PUB), Singapore's National Water Agency, to implement and maintain a Predictive Maintenance and Reliability System for the water utility's critical assets.