Singapore’s AI Trailblazers Initiative is designed to help businesses bridge gaps in talent and skills and in data and infrastructure through gaining access to a conducive testbed to experiment, prototype, and scale AI solutions quickly and confidently.
A joint initiative between the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI), Digital Industry Singapore (DISG), Smart Nation Group (SNG) and Google Cloud, Singapore’s AI Trailblazers Initiative has supported up to 84 organisations and 100 use cases since its inception in 2023. The programme offers a safe, collaborative environment for companies to prototype, test, and deploy real-world solutions, with full access to Google Cloud’s suite of AI tools and infrastructure. Discover the journeys of three companies that used the sandbox provided by the AI Trailblazers Initiative to innovate and create real-world AI applications:
AI Trailblazers Case Study 1: Visa’s personalised itinerary planner for savvy travellers
Visa, an international payments network company, assembled a team of experts across Innovation, Design, Data Science, and Technology to take a holistic approach to product creation. As Sonia Yap, Director of Innovation at Visa, noted, this initiative is built upon the company’s 30 years of pioneering AI leadership and over US$3 billion (S$3.87B) in AI investments.