- Enhancements to MERaLiON will allow extra intuitive and culturally conscious AI functions in Southeast Asia and new Consortium with international companions to drive adoption
- Advancing international conversations via the Digital Ministers Roundtable and mapping of AI Confirm Testing Framework and US NIST AI Threat Administration Framework
- New sovereign healthcare agentic AI mannequin, Enigma, sees vital outcomes and companions with business leaders to speed up scientific trials and improve affected person care
SINGAPORE, Could 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — At ATxSummit 2025, the flagship occasion of Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG), Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister for Digital Growth and Info (MDDI), unveiled updates to Singapore’s Giant Language Mannequin – Multimodal Empathetic Reasoning and Studying in One Community (MERaLiON) – and launched the MERaLiON Consortium, a big increase to Southeast Asia’s AI capabilities. She additionally introduced new international initiatives and collaborations which strengthen Singapore’s AI ecosystem and speed up accountable AI adoption, placing Singapore on the forefront of efforts to operationalise AI security.
MERaLiON breaks new floor with enhancements and new International Partnerships
MERaLiON, a big language mannequin developed by A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Analysis (A*STAR I2R) and supported by IMDA, breaks new floor in regional AI capabilities with enhanced multilingual processing and emotional intelligence. The mannequin now handles Malay, Tamil, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, and Vietnamese on high of English, Mandarin and Singlish, with superior code-switching skills and emotion recognition options. These enhancements allow extra intuitive and culturally conscious AI functions in Southeast Asia, which may very well be utilized to customer support, social service, and advertising and marketing.
To speed up adoption, IMDA and A*STAR I2R have launched the MERaLiON consortium, to carry collectively native and international business gamers and analysis and improvement (R&D) establishments like HTX, MOH Workplace for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT), NCS, Nationwide Supercomputing Centre (NSCC), SPH Media and ST Engineering with know-how firms like Axiom IT Options, BytePlus, CommonTown, DBS, Seize and Microsoft Singapore. The consortium will give attention to creating sensible AI functions, from multilingual buyer assist to well being and emotional perception detection and agentic decision-making programs.
Since its launch in December 2024, MERaLiON’s first model has garnered over 90,000 downloads globally, attracting customers from company analysis labs, media service suppliers, startups, and teachers.
Advancing international conversations for a trusted AI ecosystem
Within the space of AI security analysis, Singapore was the positioning of world cooperation in figuring out and prioritising analysis domains via the “The Singapore Consensus on International AI Security Analysis Priorities” (The Singapore Consensus). This Consensus is a dwelling doc that may function the inspiration for the ATxSG Authorities-to-Authorities (G2G) Ministerial Roundtable on Digital Belief which seeks to bridge science to coverage, and translate technical analysis into sensible insurance policies, by facilitating significant conversations between AI scientists and policymakers.
Singapore’s enhanced AI Confirm Testing Framework addresses each Generative AI (Gen AI) and conventional AI dangers. In continued collaboration with the US Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Know-how (NIST), we developed a crosswalk to map the improved Framework with the NIST AI Threat Administration Framework. This reaffirms the alignment between our two international locations’ AI governance frameworks and displays our shared dedication to cooperation.
Collectively, these initiatives underscore Singapore’s dedication to constructing foundational infrastructure for AI security improvement and testing that’s grounded in scientific proof to co-develop implementable, interoperable frameworks for accountable AI.
Strengthening international digital belief partnerships
Singapore’s AI Security Institute signed a Joint Assertion with France’s AI Security Institute to kickstart collaboration and cooperation on AI security and cooperation on 28 Could 2025. The Joint assertion was signed between MDDI, Mrs Josephine Teo, and French Minister Delegate of Synthetic Intelligence and Digital Technologues, Mrs Clara Chappaz at ATx 2025.
Singapore and US spearhead the International Cross-Border Privateness Guidelines (CBPR) Certification for companies to facilitate trusted cross border information flows, offering entry to 9 economies with about 40 trillion in market measurement. This was developed by the International CBPR Discussion board, of which Singapore serves as deputy chair. Corporations can apply for the brand new Certification from 2 June 2025, which can enable organisations to show compliance with internationally recognised information safety requirements.
Singapore’s Enigma Well being companions with Roche and ST Engineering
Enigma Well being, a spinoff from SingHealth Duke-NUS Educational Medical Centre, signed two strategic partnerships on 27 Could 2025, with Roche and ST Engineering’s Enterprise Digital to broaden its capabilities. This was introduced by Mdm Rahayu Mahzam, Minister of State for Digital Growth and Info on the “Scaling and Sustaining Healthcare with Gen AI” symposium held at ATxSG. These two new partnerships will speed up scientific trials, market entry, insights and enterprise intelligence to assist with sufferers’ care and entry to novel medicine and digital applied sciences.
Enigma Well being’s flagship product, Enigma, is Singapore’s home-grown sovereign healthcare agentic AI platform developed by a staff of clinicians and AI scientists to enhance workflow optimisation, streamlining data-intensive and time-consuming processes whereas guaranteeing sturdy information safety and regulatory compliance. It has been piloted at SingHealth establishments.
Singapore–Thailand alliance strengthens ASEAN’s struggle towards telecom scams
IMDA and Thailand’s Nationwide Broadcasting and Telecommunications Fee (NBTC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to fight telecommunications fraud throughout ASEAN.
The MOU was exchanged between Ms Jasmin Lau, Minister of State on the Ministry of Digital Growth and Info and Dr Sarana Boonbaichaiyapruck, Chairman of the NBTC on the sidelines of ATxSG 2025.
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