{"id":621569,"date":"2026-09-20T03:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T03:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/621569\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T03:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T03:24:19","slug":"why-ai-giants-are-choosing-singapore-to-turn-models-into-real-world-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/621569\/","title":{"rendered":"Why AI giants are choosing Singapore to turn models into real-world tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jordan Seow joined OpenAI in June 2025, he became the company\u2019s first locally hired forward-deployed engineer in Asia-Pacific, joining a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/singapore?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Singapore<\/a> office that then had fewer than 20 employees.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 29-year-old is now part of a fast-growing workforce built in Singapore by the world\u2019s leading artificial intelligence companies. Experts say the city state is emerging as a regional hub \u2013 not for training the latest AI models, but for the increasingly crucial task of deploying and adapting them for practical use.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Seow told This Week in Asia that the growing presence of global AI firms was opening new doors for local talent.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt also makes roles that combine technical depth, customer engagement and practical implementation more visible,\u201d Seow said. \u201cYou don\u2019t necessarily have to follow a purely research or software engineering path to contribute meaningfully to AI.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Jordan Seow joined OpenAI in June 2025, he became the company\u2019s first locally hired forward-deployed engineer in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[280943,5472,1463,114,12247,4859,85,46,280944,280945,1430,134,1748,27147,2252,211961,15020,1032],"class_list":["post-621569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ai-singapore","tag-alphabet","tag-anthropic","tag-business","tag-deepmind","tag-google-cloud","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jordan-seow","tag-manpowergroup-singapore","tag-meta","tag-microsoft","tag-openai","tag-reuters","tag-singapore","tag-singapore-institute-of-technology","tag-southeast-asia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}