2025 National AI Student Challenge highlights

The National AI Student Challenge gathers seven industry partners and hands students real business problems to solve with AI. Organisers cast the event as a training ground for the next generation of AI practitioners and creators, urging students to push boundaries and ask bold questions.

One brief asked teams to imagine content for the new science centre under construction, with AI-generated visuals that the centre may adopt for actual exhibits. AWS uses the Regional LLM track to widen AI education across ASEAN, focused on communities that need it most. Students said the challenge broadened their perspective on how much craft goes into writing AI image prompts and made the value of domain-specific LLMs concrete. AISG committed to continuing the resources, platforms and mentorship behind the programme.

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In this rapidly evolving landscape of AI, our goal here is to educate, to inspire, and to empower future AI student practitioners and AI creators and equipping you with the skills as well as the confidence to build future ready AI application. I encourage you to push the boundaries, ask the bold and the right question and most importantly whether you emerge as the winners or not do enjoy the experience. Do enjoy the opportunities to be able to interact with fellow AI enthusiasts. All the best. [Applause] [Music] So we always want to work with students. We admire the passion and creativity the students showing in AI. They have a lot of new ideas how the data should be looked at and they also show like the creativity like how do they leverage generative AI to analyze the data and expand the data to different users.

Competing in this challenge today will enable you to become one of the AI pioneers tomorrow. I've been particularly impressed by the energy, the creativity of the teams. Yeah. At Teams, we're really committed to continual learning, both for our own engineers, but also for building the nation, the smart nation, enabling new talents, developing creativity. And when our engineers heard about the uh National AI student challenge, they really wanted to to be involved and we're very excited to be a sponsor and participant of their challenge. What we did was to get the students to envision uh something for the new science center that we are currently constructing. with AI they can generate very powerful images.

So something that uh perhaps science center can take on board and create those experiences those environments uh that the students have imagined using Gen AI. I think the students team show their great creativity and strong technical skills with a lot of flexibility. I was impressed uh with the uh team's creativity. They were building and customizing the real AI systems. I think that's really uh exactly what's needed in the real AI work. The regional LLMV represents our AWS commitment to democratizing AI education across ASEAN by empowering those who need it most. This isn't just about learning. It's about creating a new generation of AI innovators who will transform their communities and drive the future of technology in Southeast Asia. From this uh challenge, we need to push off the boundary.

We don't need the high tech skills but we need to uh brainstorm how we create the data sets to adopt the domain of the challenge. I found out that domain specific lms especially generative AI is so useful for so many industry and domains. Definitely I would like to hands on more in this field. It really widened our perspective as we didn't know how much effort it took into creating AI images prompt. It could turn our ideas into visually compelling images with efficiency and acquisition. [Music] The National AI student challenge brings together seven industry leaders and tasks students to apply their AI knowledge to solve real world problems. These challenges foster creativity, innovation and problem solving skills. To all the students, you are at the heart of this journey.

We will continue to provide you with the resources, platforms, and mentorship needed to realize your potential and make a meaningful impact.