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| Concept AI image generated by Blue Willow. |
March 2023
- The Alibaba Group split into six business groups, each of which will be managed by its own CEO and board of directors.
Daniel Zhang will continue to serve as Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, which will follow a holding company management model. Each of the six business groups will be managed by its own CEO and board of directors.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to set up cloud computing infrastructure in Malaysia.
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| Source: Rackspace. Bhargava. |
"The rising demand for cloud services in Malaysia prompted the government to sanction the construction of fresh data centres by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Telekom Malaysia within the country, aligning with its cloud-focused approach and the Malaysian Digital Economy Blueprint," said Sandeep Bhargava, SVP, Global Services and Solutions, Public Cloud Business Unit at Rackspace Technology.
- OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, and mu Space and Advanced Technology Company, the aerospace manufacturer and satellite internet service provider, announced a multimillion, multiyear deal to deliver OneWeb’s low Earth orbit connectivity solutions across mainland Southeast Asia. Mu SPace is OneWeb's sole distributor in the region.
- Fashion brand CHARLES & KEITH built CHARLESKEITHHAUS in The Sandbox, a virtual world that offers an immersive gaming experience. Every detail of the virtual playscape draws inspiration from the Spring Summer 2023 collection, from its colour palette to the digital wearables.
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| Source: Lenovo. Mitra. |
"As digital technology continues to evolve, it is likely that more businesses will adopt metaverse technologies to stay competitive and offer innovative shopping experiences to their customers.
*AR refers to augmented reality; VR to virtual reality; and NFT to non-fungible tokens.
- OpenAI unveils ChatGPT 4, which is said to produce "safer and more useful responses".
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| Source: NUS. Pang. |
"The rapid development of AI technology, such as ChatGPT, has not only triggered profound revolutionary changes across various industries, but also exposed a series of new challenges in security and regulation. First, in terms of data security and privacy, AI models often require a large amount of personal sensitive data for training and operation, significantly increasing the risk of data leakage and privacy infringement.
"For example, in application areas such as facial recognition, voice recognition, and data mining, issues of data security and privacy protection are particularly prominent," said James Pang, Associate Professor at the Department of Analytics & Operations, NUS Business School, and Co-Director of the NUS Business Analytics Centre.
"Second, ethical and social bias issues in AI models are increasingly drawing attention. If the training data contain biases, AI models are likely to inherit and amplify these biases, leading to unfair or even discriminatory decisions in application.
"Additionally, many advanced AI models, such as deep learning models, act as 'black box' models and lack transparency and explainability in the decision-making process, which could have serious consequences in critical areas like healthcare, judiciary, and finance.
"In addition, new types of adversarial attacks have begun to emerge. These attacks can mislead AI models by making minor input changes, resulting in incorrect or potentially dangerous outputs. This not only poses a threat to individual users but may also impact overall societal safety."
February 2023
- Google introduced Bard, an experimental conversational AI service. Bard shared inaccurate information in a demo, affecting parent company Alphabet's share price. By end-year, Bard had learned how to code, added visual capabilities and expanded globally and connected to more Google apps and services.
- Singtel, GULF, and AIS began constructing a data centre near Bangkok.
January 2023
- Intel announced the 13th Gen Intel Core mobile processor family, led by the launch of the new flagship Intel Core i9-13980HX. The flagship chip is the first 24-core processor for a laptop and world’s fastest mobile processor.
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| Source: Intel. A 13th Gen HX processor. |
- Microsoft extends its partnership with OpenAI. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment from Microsoft follows their previous investments in 2019 and 2021.
- NVIDIA introduced the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GPU for gaming as well as GeForce RTX 40 Series laptops, delivering the company’s "largest-ever generational leap in performance and power efficiency". The new GeForce RTX 40 Series laptops are up to 3x more power efficient than the previous generation and bring the Ada Lovelace architecture, NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS 3) and 5th generation Max-Q technologies to laptops for the first time.
- Members of the WTO Joint Statement Initiative on E-commerce agree to target a 'substantial' conclusion of negotiations by end-2023. Key milestones are announced in December.
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