Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips
Alibaba and ByteDance shift development to south-east Asia to sidestep US curbs — Top Chinese companies are training …
Sea is nearing a $100B market cap after its stock has soared 300%+ since early 2024, driven by Shopee's in-house, community-based logistics network SPX Express
Shopee now dominates the Southeast Asian e-commerce market thanks to a cavalry of retirees, homemakers and students delivering parcels
A look at Sea-Lion, a $52M Singapore government-backed AI initiative developing LLMs attuned to the societal and cultural nuances of the Southeast Asian region
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
Indonesian ex-scammers reveal how Southeast Asian scam farms lured them via Facebook and Telegram ads; Indonesia says 6,700+ people were tricked since 2020
restofworld.org/2025/fake-jo... X: @restofworld : Rest of World interviewed seven former scammers in Indonesia to learn how they were lured into scam farms and about the technologies they used to defr...
The UN says the ~$40B cybercrime call center industry, tied to East and Southeast Asian crime syndicates, is expanding globally to regions with weak governance
UN Hannah Collymore / Cryptopolitan : UNODC fingers crypto, illegal mining and Telegram in Asian organized crime growth Patpicha Tanakasempipat / Bloomberg : Crime Syndicates in Southeast Asia Go Glob...
Experts say Southeast Asian students in Taiwan's work-study programs often end up as low-paid labor in the chip industry under the guise of “practical training”
If so, this immigration is not good, but GREAT for Taiwan. [embedded post] Alex Lanstein / @lanstein : This is one of the top reasons why “bring chip manufacturing to the US” is not realistic. The l...
DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, as the number of deals fell 10% YoY to 633
Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia :
Vietnam and Indonesia are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries
HANOI — Southeast Asian nations are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries.
How Grab built GrabMaps by using data from drivers, users, and merchants in 500+ Southeast Asian cities, adding 800,000+ km of missing roads to OpenStreetMap
The super-app uses its own drivers and cameras to create hyperlocal maps in eight countries. — • JAKARTA, INDONESIA Mastodon: @sohkamyung@mstdn.io . X: @pitdesi and @anupkaphle . Forums: Hacker News...