The National AI R&D Plan (NAIRD) will run from 2025 to 2030 and span three areas: driving fundamental AI research on topics such as guarding against AI risks and achieving resource efficiency, working with industry partners to adopt and deploy AI in their operations and supporting young talent with their AI research endeavours.
Singapore is stepping up its efforts to nurture its local AI talent pool by investing over $1 billion into its public AI research capabilities and talent development programmes, says Digital Development and Information Minister Josephine Teo.
"We aim to find new ways to gain efficiency across the tech stack – from chip architectures to model and application design,” Teo told attendees at the Singapore AI Research Week’s gala dinner on Jan 24. "We aim also to build core AI engineering capabilities for the translation of theory to systems and applications."
