Google opened its first Singapore office 19 years ago. What started as a small office has grown into a team of nearly 3,000, serving billions of people across the region. As we enter a new era of AI, Singapore is helping to lead the way with its world-class talent and a bold national vision for the future. We share that ambition.
That’s why, at our Google for Singapore event, we announced new programs guided by our mission to empower Singaporeans today for tomorrow, and focused on building an AI-ready nation — deepening our local research and development and building a future that is beneficial for society, robust for the economy, empowering for talent and safe for all.
Here are some of the highlights:
Building new technology from Singapore, to the world
Innovation through research and development has always been at the heart of how Google builds for the future globally. Building on the recent opening of the Google DeepMind research lab in Singapore, we are expanding our local R&D footprint by investing heavily in human capital — scaling specialised teams across software engineering, research science, and user experience (UX) design. They will help build deep, local research capabilities that serve the region, and develop new technologies across Google’s products and platforms, exporting innovation from Singapore to the world.
Solving for society’s challenges
AI is accelerating progress on some of humanity’s biggest challenges, and nowhere is that opportunity more profound than in healthcare. We’re partnering with local organizations to use AI to address critical health issues in Singapore.
We are partnering with AI Singapore (AISG) to support the development of Singapore’s National AI Infrastructure for health. By providing access to MedGemma, this foundational health AI model reflects the health needs of Singapore’s population and enables the development of AI solutions that can speed up diagnoses and unlock more effective treatments for Singapore.
To advance preventative healthcare, we are also collaborating with local health-tech startup AMILI on a precision nutrition program that will use AI to provide people with personalized lifestyle and nutrition guidance.
In addition, to continue developing representative language models for Southeast Asia, Google.org will provide an additional US$1 million funding to AISG’s Project Aquarium, to improve the quality of Southeast Asian datasets and make them open source, empowering more developers to build culturally relevant solutions for the region
Driving innovation for growth
Singapore hosts international headquarters for many of the world’s ambitious companies. To foster deeper technical collaboration with these organizations, we’re unveiling the launch of a Google Cloud Singapore Engineering Center.
This hub will bring together a new team of software engineers and frontline support teams to work directly with Singapore-based enterprises, helping them solve high-stakes global challenges while supporting pioneers in frontier industries like robotics, and clean energy.