Is SE Asia ready for China-US decoupling; Xi appeals to China's scientists

#India #Singapore #CCTV - Graymatics is a cognitive media processing company. Headquartered in Singapore, Graymatics also has offices in India and California. Graymatics is a cloud platform that enables automatic analysis and recognition of products within videos and images. (Entrepreneur)

#China #funding - Pinlan, a Chinese artificial intelligence-based architectural design platform developer, has raised several tens of millions of yuan ($3 million to $5 million) in a Series A funding round led by Shunwei Capital. (Asia NIkkei - subscription)

#SouthKorea #funding - Ada Health has raised a $90 million funding round at an undisclosed valuation that brings total investment in the company up to around $150 million. Bayer led the round through its Leaps by Bayer investment arm, while Samsung invested through the Samsung Catalyst Fund, a U.S.-based venture capital fund that Samsung Electronics uses to back companies worldwide. (CNBC)

#Singapore #robotics - SoftBank Robotics Singapore partners with GERMii to formulate a cleaning solution to eliminate bacteria, especially COVID-19. The partnership sees Whiz, SoftBank’s robot vacuum cleaner, harnessing GERMii’s ultraviolet-C technology. (ITWire)

#China #R&D - Chinese leader promises to boost investment and free scientists from bureaucracy, as Joe Biden seeks heavy increase in US research budget. Xi Jinping says China must seek breakthroughs in areas such as AI and semiconductors as he warns of major battle between great powers. (SCMP)

#China #R&D - President Xi Jinping on Friday called for accelerated efforts in building China into a leader in science and technology and achieving sci-tech self-reliance and self-strengthening at higher levels. (China.org.cn)

#China #US #R&D - The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) launched the latest version of Wudao, a pre-trained deep learning model that the lab dubbed as “China’s first,” and “the world’s largest ever,” with a whopping 1.75 trillion parameters. The model is trained on Chinese supercomputers and boasts 10 times the parameters of OpenAI’s GPT-3. (PingWest)

#SouthKorea #AIchips - South Korean cloud data center operators have formed ties with local companies that specialise in chips used in servers in a move to cope with growing semiconductor demand and uncertainty in global supply chains, the ICT ministry said Tuesday. (Korea Herald)

#SouthKorea #AVs - According to Reuters and other foreign media, SK Group is partnering with an American autonomous driving company to target the Asia-Pacific autonomous driving market worth 1,677 trillion won, including Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan etc. (ANI)

#China #robotaxis - Are self-driving cars ready for the masses? Probably not, but rides are being tested in Beijing right now. In Shougang, Baidu runs a self-driving bus service, named Apolong, and a paid fully autonomous ride-hailing service called Apollo Go, which was just introduced at the beginning of May. (KR-Asia)

#Singapore #drones - Autonomous drones will be hovering in the skies over six reservoirs in Singapore, as part of an effort to better monitor water quality and water activities. Flying “beyond visual range” of a human operator, the unmanned drones will be packed with remote sensing systems and cameras for near real-time video analytics. (Techgoondu)

#China #SEAsia #US #tradewar - Recent developments suggest that both China and the United States are taking steps towards unravelling or “decoupling” their technology ecosystems. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the semiconductor industry, which manufactures the chips allowing everything from smartphones to cars to function and is now seen as the lynchpin of an increasingly digitalised global economy. (Lowy Institute)

#China #US #security - More than a year after the U.S. Interior Department grounded hundreds of Chinese-made drones it was using to track wildfires and monitor dams, volcanoes and wildlife, it’s starting to look like they won’t be flying again any time soon — if ever. (AP)

#China #Poland #Huawei - An espionage trial involving a former Polish secret services agent and an ex-employee of Huawei begins in a Warsaw court on Tuesday as some European states consider whether to exclude the Chinese group’s equipment from their 5G telecom networks. (Reuters)

#China #US #tradewar - Beijing and Washington officials agree that resumption of trade dialogue after nine-month hiatus is constructive, but US says ‘very large challenges’ exist in trade and economic relationship with China. (SCMP)

#China #Huawei - A new report suggests that Chinese telecommunication firm Huawei has successfully secured contracts to provide cloud infrastructure in emerging economies in Asia, Africa and Latin America — a strategy that could allow Beijing to harvest important and sensitive information for “coercive leverage.” (VOA)

#China #agtech - A variety of robots designed for different farming tasks were on display at the recent First China Agricultural Robot Innovation Competition, offering a glimpse of China’s future in smart agriculture. (Future IoT)

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