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Language was never the problem: Inside SEA’s real AI adoption gap

Language was never the problem: Inside SEA’s real AI adoption gap

Ask most people what is holding back AI adoption in Southeast Asia, and the answer usually circles back to language. Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, Thai and Malay are still treated as the great unsolved frontier for global models, the assumption being that once AI speaks the region fluently, enterprises will follow. Kai Yong Kang, Partner at […...

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