Immediately after attracting $6.6 billion (roughly 8.87 trillion won) in investment, OpenAI began extensive global expansion by adding branches in five cities around the globe. Particularly, in Asia, we’re preparing to open a second office in Singapore following Japan.
OpenAI announced on the ninth through X (Twitter) that it should open latest offices in Recent York, Seattle, Paris, Brussels, and Singapore. He added that they’re recruiting engineers for this.
Consequently, OpenAI now has 9 offices in 7 countries, including existing offices in San Francisco, London, Dublin, and Tokyo, plus 5 latest ones. In relation to this, a number of days ago, news broke that OpenAI had signed a lease for a constructing in Recent York’s Soho area. Offices in Recent York and Singapore are scheduled to open inside the yr.
Particularly, expansion into Singapore was emphasized. It will function a hub for cooperation with corporations and governments within the Asian region, where demand is rapidly increasing.
The Singapore government announced that additionally it is cooperating with the ‘AI Singapore’ initiative to support corporations and research institutions to utilize AI. “Singapore has one among the best rates of ChatGPT usage per capita on the planet, and the variety of weekly energetic users in Singapore has doubled for the reason that starting of the yr,” it said in an announcement.
Singapore is already considered a world AI hub. We’re also actively collaborating with big tech corporations within the U.S. and are carrying out a submarine web cable construction project with Google and Meta.
“Singapore, with its wealthy history of technology leadership, has emerged as a pacesetter in AI,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. “We’re excited to expand into the Asia Pacific region and partner with its thriving AI ecosystem.”
Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com
