Singapore SMEs (Petite and Medium Enterprises) have extra avenues to undertake AI with brandnew programmes that end result from a collaboration between Undertaking Singapore, AI Singapore (AISG), the Infocomm Media Construction Authority (IMDA) and Microsoft.
Those projects, introduced on the starting of Microsoft Copilot for SME match, which was once attended via Mr. Gan Kim Yong, Deputy High Minister and Minister for Industry and Trade, will assistance Singapore corporations get entry to AI answers and assemble AI-related features.
Microsoft Copilot for SMEs programme
Collectively administered via Microsoft, EnterpriseSG, and AI Singapore (AISG), this programme targets to force the adoption of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 answer amongst native corporations. SMEs can sit up for operating with Microsoft’s appointed companions to undertake Copilot for Microsoft 365 and taking part in specifically designed coaching workshops to harness the AI-powered answer successfully for enhanced on a regular basis trade productiveness.
SMEs too can faucet on AISG’s suite of coaching programmes and workshops to teach themselves at the broader programs of AI past Copilot for Microsoft 365.
EnterpriseSG will defray 50% of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license prices for eligible companies, and every SME will have the ability to acquire as much as 50 licenses on the subsidised price for a 12-month subscription length. In the course of the programme, EnterpriseSG targets to backup greater than 1,000 native SMEs in adopting Copilot for Microsoft 365 within the after two years. Additional information will also be discovered right here.
Implemented AI programme at Institutes of Upper Studying (IHL)
EnterpriseSG will even backup SMEs searching for extra refined AI integration or not able to search out appropriate “off-the-shelf” answers, to assemble and deploy bespoke AI answers. Underneath the brandnew Implemented AI programme at IHLs, EnterpriseSG has partnered with institutes that may paintings immediately with SMEs to curate AI disease statements, create customised market-ready AI answers, and deploy them throughout numerous trade purposes.
To assistance defray one of the crucial related prices, EnterpriseSG will lend a 50% subsidy for eligible SMEs to assemble and undertake those customised AI answers thru this programme.
The Implemented AI programme will get started with Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) and Singapore Polytechnic (SP) from June 2024. Leveraging their technical experience in AI and business revel in, the programme will allow SMEs to spot explicit ache issues and assemble efficient AI execution methods, answers, and implementation plans.
Over the after few years, EnterpriseSG will gradually carry on extra IHL companions and effort to backup greater than 100 SMEs beneath this programme.
Digitally Mature Singapore Enterprises
The IMDA and Microsoft have additionally signed a brandnew Memorandum of Intent (MOI) to assistance SMEs and era distributors leverage generative AI (GenAI), enabling digitally mature enterprises to support their features in GenAI and to assemble and deploy customised GenAI answers, with greater than 200 digitally mature Singapore SMEs to learn over the after two years as a get started. Microsoft and IMDA will even uplift tech suppliers in enabling their answers with AI features that may assistance scale AI adoption among SMEs.
That is Microsoft’s 2nd AI initiative for Singaporean corporations in 2024. In March, the tech immense signed two Memorandums of Figuring out (MOU) with SkillsFuture Singapore and NTUC LearningHub to boost AI literacy in Singapore.
Featured Symbol Credit score: Undertaking SG. Mr. Gan Kim Yong, Deputy High Minister and Minister for Industry and Trade
