Lever 1 · Updated 2026-05-20

OpenAI for Singapore

Part of Lever 1 · Infrastructure / Foreign-Capital Compute (EDB)

Owner

MDDI / EDB

Scale / KPI

S$300M+ / 200+ technical roles

Parent lever

Lever 1 · Infrastructure

Project Description

First Applied AI Lab outside the US, aligned to public service, finance, healthcare, and digital infrastructure missions

What the State Does

Build the compute and data layer companies cannot afford to build themselves

Bottleneck Solved

Companies cannot afford their own compute

Related Reading

OpenAI for Singapore

OpenAI and MDDI announced OpenAI for Singapore at ATxSummit 2026: a commitment of more than S$300M, OpenAI’s first Applied AI Lab outside the United States, and 200+ Singapore-based technical roles over the next few years.