When Jordan Seow joined OpenAI in June 2025, he became the company’s first locally hired forward-deployed engineer in Asia-Pacific, joining a Singapore office that then had fewer than 20 employees. The 29-year-old is now part of a fast-growing workforce built in Singapore by the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies. Experts say the city state is […]
Singapore, where OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, and most recently Anthropic have successively opened offices, has become the main hub in the Asia-Pacific region for deploying models directly in the field, adapting them to commercial applications, and transforming them into practical solutions, rather than training them from scratch.