@Fenng: A Singapore e-commerce giant could have been a major AI player, and Singapore could have been a key AI R&D hub. But on the eve of the large model explosion, it inexplicably chose strategic contraction, disbanded the AI team, and the head returned to China. By then, the company already had ~5,000 GPUs in compute power—which doesn't seem much now...
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The commentary notes that a Singapore e-commerce giant chose strategic contraction and disbanded its AI team before the large model explosion, missing the opportunity to become a major AI player, despite having around 5,000 GPUs in computing power at the time.
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