Welcome to Asia AI Foundry

Lots to learn & do...

While I am still contemplating which AI Masters to pursue (my 3rd), the world was introduced to Sora with its super impressive videos, and now comes Devin, world’s first AI software engineer. Now I wonder if my expensive course will become outdated by the time I finish it. Perhaps better to learn experientially…

The breakneck pace at which AI & its applications are evolving, is exactly why our Asia AI Foundry is created. The vision is to bring together Asia focused AI Researchers, Subject Matter Experts, Operators, Investors, Founders, & Ecosystem players - to innovate IN Asia, FOR Asia. Thanks for being a co-creator, & providing your inputs via the survey. Snippets below:

1. Top 3 topics in demand are (in order) - industry wise use-cases, AI startups, VC perspectives on AI

   

2. Several speaker suggestions - Andrew Ng, Peter Relan, Chris Callison-Burch, Karen Yip. Will setup our first speaker session by April. Stay tuned.

3. Expectations from this community are primarily

   1. Learning from Expert Speakers

   2. Idea generation, networking with AI professionals & enthusiasts

   3. Use-cases in Manufacturing, Fintech, Healthtech

Thanks for all your feedback, this will help shape the Foundry’s course, & best serve our community.

As a start, here’s the Community Whatsapp group to join. This is initially being circulated to the Penn & Wharton alums across Asia who filled this survey. If you come across any Penn & Wharton alums who are interested in AI and want to join these groups, pls feel free to share these links with them.

For LinkedIn fans, here’s the LinkedIn community. Pls feel free to share ideas, articles, developments in these Whatsapp & LinkedIn groups.

If you have any suggestions on how to include alums from China ( since Whatsapp is not possible), lets pls discuss. They are an important AI player in Asia, and I hope we can include them somehow.

For this inaugural mail ( also my first time using Substack), am sharing few resources on how Asian governments are supporting AI through policy measures

Singapore Parliament on AI

Country-wise AI policies & strategies below ( tons of funding & support to leverage):

1. Singapore: https://www.smartnation.gov.sg/nais/

2. Japan: https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/ai/index.html

3. Australia: https://www.industry.gov.au/science-technology-and-innovation/technology/artificial-intelligence

4. New Zealand: https://www.mbie.govt.nz/dmsdocument/5754-artificial-intelligence-shaping-a-future-new-zealand-pdf

5. China: http://fi.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/kxjs/201710/P020210628714286134479.pdf

6. India: https://www.niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2023-03/National-Strategy-for-Artificial-Intelligence.pdf

7. South Korea: https://www.msit.go.kr/bbs/view.do?sCode=eng&nttSeqNo=9&bbsSeqNo=46&mId=10&mPid=9

8. Malaysia: https://airmap.my/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AIR-Map-Playbook-final-s.pdf

9. Indonesia: https://ai-innovation.id/strategi

More in the next edition…

p.s. : if you are looking to brush up fundamentals, I found this resource compilation super useful. Happy Learning !