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Thailand: January 2025

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  • Thailand: Nat’l Innovation Agency boosts Co-Maker Space initiative to develop the domestic startup ecosystem, focusing on AI, green-tech and fintech startups / full item
  • Thailand: SPACE-F Batch 5 unveils 18 startup teams working on food-tech innovation, with a focus on sustainable solutions, products and packaging / full item
  • Thailand: More on BDI, coordinating development of ThaiLLM, a national large language model for AI initially to feature Health Link, Envi Link, Travel Link and the Smart Data Analytics platforms / full item
  • Thailand: Government is to launch ThaiLLM, a local large language AI model, later this year, with initial focus on healthcare and environmental support / full item

Thailand: “Despite increased [artificial intelligence] investments, 40% of respondents said they have either seen no gains or the gains have fallen short of their expectations…” / full item

  • Thailand’s Techsauce media platform and Indonesia’s KUMPUL startup platform ink MOU to ‘foster cross-border startup collaboration and global innovation’, outlining 7 key activities / full item
  • Thailand: Here’s an introduction to VentureSpark, aiming to become one of Thailand’s leading tech and startup accelerators / full item
  • Thailand: OPPO and RealMe smartphone manufacturers found to have included pre-installed loan apps on devices without Bank of Thailand approval / full item

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  • Thailand: AWS rolls out Thailand Cloud Region as part of $5BN investment, projected to contribute estimated $10BN to Thailand’s GDP while supporting 11K jobs annually / full item
  • Thailand: Rakkar gains Digital Asset Custodian License from the Ministry of Finance to provide digital assets custodial services to institutions / full item
  • Thailand: In December, Foxconn subsidiary UNIQUE Integrated Technology gained approval for a $306M factory build to export semiconductor machinery and equipment / full item
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