Further S$120M investment in “AI for Science”

Further S$120M investment in “AI for Science”

1. A key part of Singapore’s refreshed National AI Strategy (NAIS 2.0) is to build up a vibrant and innovative AI research ecosystem.

2. In support of this, the Government will be making a new S$120 million investment in “AI for Science”. Led by the National Research Foundation (NRF), the “AI for Science” initiative will focus on the development and adoption of AI methods and tools that are transferable across multiple domains of science to enhance research productivity and advance scientific discovery. It will fund deep collaborations between AI researchers and scientific domain experts in thematic areas that are of interest to Singapore, such as advanced materials research and biomedical and health sciences. The initiative will also solicit bottom-up proposals, which can be in other thematic areas proposed by the research community.

3. The “AI for Science” initiative will cultivate a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers who are ‘bilingual’, or proficient in both AI technologies and one or more scientific domains. It will also assist researchers with access to and sharing of relevant datasets and compute resources, and promote the collocation of researchers to foster co-creation and maximise transferability of capabilities and expertise to multiple domains of science. Additionally, it will support collaborations between Singapore-based researchers and international counterparts to fill in capability gaps and seed new expertise in Singapore.

4. By bringing together experts in AI and scientific research, the “AI for Science” initiative seeks to ensure that Singapore can benefit from the latest advancements and breakthroughs in AI for scientific discovery and that Singapore’s research community remains competitive and vibrant, driving innovation towards Singapore’s national imperatives and economic development.