Independent analysis of Singapore’s AI strategy.https://sgai.md/https://sgai.md/openai-signals-chatgpt-at-work-2026/https://sgai.md/openai-signals-chatgpt-at-work-2026/OpenAI has released country-level data on ChatGPT usage for the first time. In the accompanying Signals dataset, Singapore ranks first among 147 countries in per-capita message volume. The proportion of "getting it to do things" in work contexts is more than twice that in non-work contexts; multimedia is the fastest-growing use case; and the share of messages from people aged 35 and above is rising in nearly every country—Singapore is one of the rare exceptions.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/temasek-review-2026-ai/https://sgai.md/temasek-review-2026-ai/Temasek's 2026 annual report devotes a full chapter to AI: AI-related investments currently account for 6% of the portfolio, with a target of 10–15% by March 2031. This article maps out the four pillars, this year's acquisition list, and several institutions based locally in Singapore.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/enterprise-ai-four-questions/https://sgai.md/enterprise-ai-four-questions/At a roundtable at NUS Global Entrepreneurship Forum Singapore, the moderator posed four questions about enterprise AI: how to choose a model, what the core competitive advantage of the next generation of companies will be, how CEO capabilities will change, and what a truly AI Native Company is. Here are my answers—one principle with two exceptions, betting on Data, CEOs must personally have a sense for AI, and AI-native companies organized around data.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/sovereign-capital-frontier-ai/https://sgai.md/sovereign-capital-frontier-ai/In May 2026 Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H with GIC as co-lead and Temasek as a significant investor — Singapore's two sovereign funds on the same frontier AI company's cap table. This piece surveys every publicly known AI investment by GIC and Temasek: frontier models, AI infrastructure, data platforms, each with date, scale, and source tier.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/anthropic-economic-index-singapore/https://sgai.md/anthropic-economic-index-singapore/Anthropic's March 2026 Economic Index ranks countries by Claude usage intensity, normalized by population, and Singapore comes first at 5.53. The number measures per-capita adoption intensity — not absolute volume, and not how advanced the usage is. Singapore's top spot rests on a sustained policy push and on its base as a small, rich, English-speaking, knowledge-worker-dense city-state.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/national-ai-missions-2026/https://sgai.md/national-ai-missions-2026/At ATxSummit on 20 May 2026, Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo announced an update to the National AI Strategy, establishing four National AI Missions: Advanced Manufacturing, Connectivity, Finance, and Healthcare. Also announced on the same day were the NVIDIA Singapore AI Research Lab and a multi-operator robot testbed at Punggol Digital District.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/singapore-ai-native-companies-vs-nations/https://sgai.md/singapore-ai-native-companies-vs-nations/Two AI-native experiments are running in parallel in 2026 — 50-person companies and a 5.7-million-person city-state. Put them side by side and you see an overlooked fact: AI-native is not a matter of scale — it is an architecture. The real bet of Singapore's Budget 2026 is to use the entire country as a "wrapper layer" for the AI-native transformation of its enterprises.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/singapore-ai-vs-smart-nation-two-transformations/https://sgai.md/singapore-ai-vs-smart-nation-two-transformations/Smart Nation in 2014 moved processes from paper to screen. The 2026 AI strategy moves judgement from human heads into models. The same playbook running for the second time, under different pressures — why this time it's the white-collar middle class on the line, and why the narrative is crisis rather than development.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/singapore-ai-strategy-the-real-moat/https://sgai.md/singapore-ai-strategy-the-real-moat/Singapore's real advantage is not a permanent geographic moat, but the institutional capacity to pivot before old advantages fail and turn the new direction into programs. In AI, the early bet on refining and certification is being compressed by foundation models, while Singapore's real moat is its ability to self-correct quickly and make AI work in real-world systems.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/microsoft-global-ai-adoption-2025/https://sgai.md/microsoft-global-ai-adoption-2025/Microsoft AI Economy Institute report: Singapore's AI adoption rate is 60.9%, second in the world. About one in six people globally now use generative AI, but the North-South gap is widening.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT