Singapore Accelerates AI Development, Plans to Train 15,000 Professionals


Li Liang, Vice President of Douyin Group, denied the rumor that DeepSeek researchers were hired by ByteDance with a salary of nearly 100 million yuan per year, stating that the report was untrue and that the company has no such recruitment recently. He explained that the salary system for core technology teams is unified and consists of cash and equity.
Gallup survey shows that nearly half of U.S. employees use artificial intelligence at work, a record high. The proportion of employees who frequently use AI daily and weekly has also increased, indicating that AI is accelerating its integration into the workplace.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis predicts that artificial general intelligence (AGI) may be achieved within five years. He points out that current AI is in a phase of short-term over-hype and long-term underestimation, and emphasizes that the impact of the AI revolution will be ten times that of the industrial revolution, and will develop at ten times the speed.
16 Chinese academic institutions jointly released the 'Global AI Governance Initiative by Science and Technology Associations', emphasizing that AI development should focus on 'benefiting people's livelihoods' and 'safe control', aiming to promote the common well-being of humanity and ensure that technology serves the interests of all human beings.
A report from Boston Consulting Company states that within the next three years, artificial intelligence will reshape more than half of U.S. jobs, bringing about a productivity revolution. However, it will not completely replace human labor but rather change the way work is done.