Count who gets paid: the least glamorous AI money in Southeast Asia
Somebody is going to stand on a stage in Singapore this month and tell you two things. Southeast Asia now has more than 60 profitable tech startups. And the region is in the middle of a $4 billion AI boom.
Both numbers are true. Both are also lies. Not made up. Lies the way your uncle lies at dinner, where every word checks out and the whole thing is still nonsense.
So I am going to tell you up front where this lands. The most profitable AI business in Southeast Asia is not building the model. It is not even the thing people are calling the AI boom. It is teaching people how to actually use…
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