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Empowering Singapore’s AI Future: A New National-Level Partnership

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A New National Partnership to Further Strengthen Singapore’s AI Future

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With cutting-edge AI, we will help advance health and life sciences, transform learning in the classroom, and support the growth of the workforce of the future.

At Google DeepMind, we believe cutting-edge AI can be a powerful force for good in society. Last year, we opened a new research lab in Singapore to expand our work across Asia Pacific. Today, we are taking a major step forward. As part of our AI National Partnership Program, we are launching new efforts in Singapore and helping drive a key pillar of a new national AI partnership between Google and the Singapore government.

By working with multiple organizations, we will help transform the public sector, accelerate business growth, and ensure that people can thrive in an AI-first world. This partnership is focused on real-world challenges such as improving healthcare, accelerating scientific discovery, and reimagining education, so that these technological breakthroughs translate into meaningful progress for Singapore’s diverse communities. Together, we are helping strengthen Singapore’s national AI strategy to deploy AI responsibly at scale in ways that promote economic growth and public benefit. Ultimately, by accelerating science and innovation, AI could generate an additional S$3.3 billion (US$2.5 billion) in economic value by 2040 through faster research and development.

Addressing Complex Societal Challenges

At the heart of this partnership is a shared commitment to accelerating local research and development and turning the potential of cutting-edge AI into practical, inclusive progress. Our team in Singapore will work side by side with local experts to responsibly apply frontier AI where it can have the most meaningful impact for communities. We will begin with healthcare and life sciences.

  • Enhancing clinical support with an AI co-clinician: As part of a global AI co-clinician research initiative, we are exploring collaboration with public health clusters. This effort will examine how AI can strengthen and support clinicians’ expertise to help deliver better care. We will also study the potential evolution of healthcare into a triadic care model, where AI agents support the patient journey under clinical authority, using information grounded in clinical guidelines and the scientific literature.
  • Advancing pandemic preparedness: Through Google.org, we will support initiatives that advance infectious disease research and pandemic response. We are working to accelerate understanding of disease outbreaks in Southeast Asia using cutting-edge AI such as AlphaFold and Google Earth, along with other state-of-the-art AI for Science tools. This is also part of Google.org’s $7 million grant to the Health for Human Potential alliance of the Philanthropy Asia Alliance.
  • For inclusive innovation: We are developing a Gemma-powered running assistant designed for athletes who are blind or have low vision. Using spatial reasoning that can understand the surrounding environment in real time, the tool helps athletes run independently without physical guide lines or human accompaniment. We are currently working with SG Enable, which leads disability and inclusion initiatives in Singapore, to test and refine the tool so it meets the real needs of runners with visual impairments.
  • Accelerating scientific discovery: We will work with the National Research Foundation to conduct training that helps researchers learn agentic AI tools for science, including Co-Scientist-based Hypothesis Generation. These tools have shown promise across a range of biomedical domains. We will also host workshops to help Singapore’s scientific community use these cutting-edge tools to spark new breakthroughs.

Improving Education and Preparing a Future-Ready Workforce

As we move toward an AI-driven economic transformation, our goal is to ensure that communities across Singapore have the opportunity to grow and succeed. We are working with the broader ecosystem to co-design programs that help educators and learners engage responsibly with new technologies.

We are making Gemini for Education available to all educators from primary school through junior college, and we will also provide training on how to use these AI tools in teaching and learning. This will help teachers streamline lesson planning and customize materials, giving them more time to focus on what matters most: teaching. We will continue working with the Ministry of Education to strengthen AI capabilities at every stage of education and learning, including training and upskilling programs for educators.

Driving Sustainable Innovation

Building a truly prosperous future means tackling global sustainability challenges through responsible collaboration. We are launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator: AI for the Planet in Asia Pacific, working with the next generation of climate leaders. The program is designed to help startups, research teams, and nonprofits use cutting-edge AI to explore new solutions to complex environmental challenges in areas such as energy, water, and agriculture. Selected organizations will receive expert mentorship, tailored support, and help integrating frontier AI into their work.