Singapore Miles Ahead in Depth of Technical Knowledge: OpenAI Research Chief

The Business Times | 27 January 2025

Developers in the city-state have deep technical knowledge while policymakers have a level of technical literacy unseen in other parts of the world

Mark Chen, chief research officer at OpenAI, says the company’s research pipeline to develop new AI models typically unfolds in phases.

SINGAPORE is well-positioned to reap success in artificial intelligence (AI), according to one of the top minds in the field.

Developers in the city-state have deep technical knowledge, and policymakers here have a level of technical literacy unseen in other parts of the world, said OpenAI’s research chief Mark Chen.

“I mean this very, very seriously – there’s a gap between Singapore and everywhere else,” he told The Business Times in a recent interview.

Chen joined OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT – in 2018, and assumed his current role in January.

He recalled an interaction with former prime minister Lee Hsien Loong during OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s 2023 world tour to discuss AI-related issues.

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