In Malaysia, even AI is a suffix
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These days AI is everywhere. There’s even A(nwar) I(brahim).
The prime minister is getting an AI avatar of himself, so now you can have him (and his propaganda) 24/7.
I digress.
There are two kinds of AI companies these days.
The first builds the whole stack. These are the ones hiring researchers, buying chips, training models, and burning billions in cash for something sentient.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, spent more than its entire revenue doing exactly this.
The second kind claims it is an AI company, either by appending “AI” to its name or riding on existing AI platforms.
Bursa’s ACE market has been the stage for a few of the second kind lately.