{"id":181227,"date":"2026-01-24T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/singapore-to-invest-over-779-million-in-public-ai-research-through-2030\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:05:08","slug":"singapore-to-invest-over-779-million-in-public-ai-research-through-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/singapore-to-invest-over-779-million-in-public-ai-research-through-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore to invest over $779 million in public AI research through 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/singapore-invest-over-779-million-public-ai-research-through-2030-2026-01-24\/\">Singapore to invest over $779 million in public AI research through 2030<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/singapore-invest-over-779-million-public-ai-research-through-2030-2026-01-24\/\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/singapore-invest-over-779-million-public-ai-research-through-2030-2026-01-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-24 07:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.reuters.com\">www.reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Singapore government plans to invest over S$1 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) research from 2023 through 2030 to enhance the nation&#8217;s capabilities and global competitiveness.<\/li>\n<li>A key focus of the investment will be in responsible and resource-efficient AI, as well as in developing local talent in AI from pre-university levels up to faculty.<\/li>\n<li>Part of the budget will support industrial applications and the adoption of AI technologies across various sectors.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative continues previous investments: in 2024, Singapore allocated S$500 million for high-performance computing infrastructure and committed over S$500 million towards AI research and development via AI Singapore.<\/li>\n<li>In 2023, AI Singapore introduced the open-source large language model Sea-Lion, supported by S$70 million, which has been utilized by companies like Indonesia&#8217;s GoTo.<\/li>\n<li>An updated version of the Sea-Lion model was released in October 2025, building upon Qwen from China&#8217;s Alibaba and improving support for several Southeast Asian languages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore to invest over $779 million in public AI research through 2030 https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/singapore-invest-over-779-million-public-ai-research-through-2030-2026-01-24\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resizer\/v2\/NTXWJUOGCRPS5NI3VXHSM3XP5M.jpg?auth=44a5d3cfe4d802732be5d24e37d69433ebb18b9c93984df5d06b360fe7f4255e&height=1005&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,18],"class_list":["post-181227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-large-language-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181229,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181227\/revisions\/181229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}