The OECD.AI Policy Navigator

Amid recent advances, especially in Generative AI, we refreshed our National AI Strategy in 2023. Guided by the vision AI for the Public Good, for Singapore and the World, our second National AI Strategy outlines how we will achieve our vision for Singapore to be a place where AI serves as a force for good, and where we harness AI to uplift and empower our people and businesses.

In 2019, we unveiled our first National AI Strategy, outlining plans to deepen the use of AI to transform our economy. By 2023, our early investment in AI led to the establishment of about 150 teams working on research and development, and 900 startups exploring new ideas with AI.

Building on previous collaboration, the European Commission and PDPC intend to further develop their partnership on issues of common interest, notably through the exchange of knowledge, experience and best practices to enhance data protection and trusted data flows, including exploring the use of privacy-enhancing technologies, in support of the digital economy and advancing the protection of children in the digital environment, which is a priority area for both sides.

The Enterprise Compute Initiative (ECI) is a Singapore government programme administered by Digital Industry Singapore (DISG), with up to SGD $150 million set aside at Budget 2025. Designed to support Singapore-based companies in advancing their AI transformation, the programme provides cloud credits and consultancy services through major cloud service providers, Google Cloud, Microsoft, AWS, and Oracle, to help companies develop a Minimum Viable Product and establish dedicated AI teams.

MERaLiON (Multimodal Empathetic Reasoning and Learning in One Network) is a large language model designed in Singapore and built for Southeast Asia. Launched in its upgraded version (v2) at the ATxSummit in May 2025, it expanded its language coverage to include Malay, Vietnamese, Thai, Tamil, Bahasa Indonesia, and Chinese dialects, aiming to reach approximately 450 million speakers across the region through empathetic, culturally aware, and context-sensitive AI interactions.