Artificial intelligence is attracting serious investment across Southeast Asia. Startups are using it to automate business processes, develop new products, and solve problems that once required large engineering teams. Healthcare should be
ByteDance is considering a second phase of its data center project at the Port of Pecém in Brazil’s northeastern Ceará state and is looking for developers to build it, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with
On any given day, I could be editing an article about women’s health, preparing a sponsorship proposal for an esports tournament, planning social media content, answering emails from PR agencies and troubleshooting something on a
Nasdaq-listed traveltech major MakeMyTrip has expanded into the carpooling segment via the acquisition of a majority stake in Bengaluru-based Quick…
In March this year, on the sidelines of Razorpay’s annual flagship event FTX, CEO Harshil Mathur told Inc42 that what…
Chinese video-generation company Sand.ai announced a $200 million Series A+ funding round on November 5. The company said the investment gave it unicorn status and brought its fundraising this year to $300 million across three
Bengaluru-based biotechnology startup Venomics AI has raised $2.7 Mn (around ₹25.5 Cr) in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Speciale…
Southeast Asia’s tech startups have raised more funding in the first ten months of 2026 than almost anyone in the ecosystem would have forecast in January. Add up the monthly figures in Tracxn’s latest snapshot
Bangkok, October 26, 2026 – SCB 10X, the disruptive technology investment arm of SCBX Group, announced its investment in Tasklet, an AI agent platform that enables businesses to automate complex workflows and delegate operational tasks
Eight months after Amity announced a Series D of more than US$100 million, the round is still open for business. The Thailand-founded AI group said on Monday that Finnoventure Private Equity Trust I, a fund
Malaysia’s second 5G operator wants startups to do something telcos across the region have struggled to make happen: build for its network before anyone has agreed to pay for the result. U Mobile said on
Editor’s note: On Nov. 4, Apple Intelligence began beta testing in China, with Alibaba’s Qwen available in selected Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence experiences. The partnership crowns an unusually fast ascent for a model
Fintech soonicorn Cashfree Payments has launched ‘Checkout for Agents’, a new tool that enables AI agents to process customer payments…
One of the biggest changes AI has brought to my work is that I can do more. I am no longer as daunted by the mundane work involved in getting something started. A research idea,
Young Singaporeans are the best prepared in the Commonwealth to ride the AI wave, according to a new index. The more useful lesson for Southeast Asia, however, sits with Australia, the country in third place:
Oracle has canceled a five-year agreement to lease advanced AI chips to Tencent after pressure from the Trump administration, the Financial Times reported on November 4. The deal, valued at approximately $7 billion, would have
Nothing plans to launch its first AI-native hardware product in December, founder and CEO Carl Pei said on November 4. Pei described the forthcoming device as a productivity tool without a screen, adding that its
Moonshot AI has released the weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro on Hugging Face, making its flagship multimodal model available for independent deployment. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 2.8 trillion total parameters and approx