The book · AI-First Nation
Singapore ran the national AI experiment. This is the inside playbook.
AI-First Nation takes you inside AI Singapore’s programmes — 100 Experiments, the AI Apprenticeship Programme, AI Makerspace, LearnAI and AIRI — and turns them into a blueprint for building an AI-ready organisation.
In numbers
The programmes, at scale
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Latest thinking
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Field notes from building national AI programmes — what worked, what didn’t, and what it means for your organisation.
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Building Singapore’s AI Future: Inside Our Award-Winning Apprenticeship Programme.
Watch how AI Singapore partners with Google Cloud to transform passionate individuals into industry-ready AI engineers through our innovative apprenticeship programme. Discover how we’ve trained over 300+ Singaporeans to solve real-world challenges using cutting-edge AI technologies
From national experiment to your playbook
Eight chapters on the machinery of Singapore’s AI movement — AI Singapore, 100E, AI Makerspace, AIAP, LearnAI, AIRI — ending with the AIFN Blueprint, the part your organisation can run.
The programmes the book documents — 100 Experiments, the AI Apprenticeship Programme — were built to solve real problems at national scale. He writes about what actually works when organisations get serious about AI.
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