Sea and Google open chapter two of their AI pact before chapter one ships

What happened

Eight days later, the same fund has walked into Sea Limited’s office carrying something different: not a term sheet, but a key to […] The post Sea and Google open chapter two of their AI pact before chapter one ships appeared first on e27 . Sea, the Singapore-founded parent of Shopee, Garena and Monee, announced on Thursday that Sea Labs, its technology innovation and development arm, will work directly with Google AI Futures Fund to explore and build new applied AI products. Google is an Internet and software company based in Mountain View.

Teams across Sea will get access to selected frontier models from Google, along with Google experts who can help develop and test Sea’s new product ideas. Google has been busy making friends in Singapore.

On 7 October, its AI Futures Fund teamed up with Granite Asia to write cheques of up to US$2 million into Asian AI startups. Eight days later, the same fund has walked into Sea Limited’s office carrying something different: not a term sheet, but a key to Google’s model cupboard.

Key facts

• Sea, the Singapore-founded parent of Shopee, Garena and Monee, — announced: on Thursday that Sea Labs, its technology innovation and development arm, will work directly with Google AI Futures Fund to explore and build new applied AI products