Silicon Dragon CES 2024

6th Annual Event

Where Asia VCs & Founders Meet at CES

Featuring Ask A VC Chats with

Nan Zhou, Director, Qualcomm Ventures

Jay Eum, Founding Managing Partner,

GFT Ventures (ex-Samsung Ventures)

Tech Chats with Founders from Asia at CES

Spotlight on Asia Brands at CES

January 10, 5-7pm

NOTEWORTHY

My CNBC Article on Impact of

Open AI Drama -- and a

French Connection!

After closed door OpenAI drama, open source AI backed by Nvidia, Eric Schmidt, could emerge winner

KEY POINTS

Salesforce, Qualcomm, Nvidia and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt are pouring investment into open source AI startups including Hugging Face and Mistral AI.
The OpenAI saga has reached a resolution, with Sam Altman reinstated as CEO and a new board, but it has shaken up the market and caused a reassessment of relying on a single, proprietary service for generative AI competitive leverage.
Hugging Face counts more than 2 million users, 400,000 models and 77,000 data sets, with IBM and AWS among its customers.
How France is building an AI hub
Hugging Face co-founders Clément Delangue (CEO) Julien Chaumond (CTO) Thomas Wolf (CSO) (photo)

Featured Photo

Ad Display Spotted During APEC 2023:

"In SF, AI Is The New Reality"

Featured Video

It was an epic APEC week in San Francisco.

During the Xi-Biden luncheon nearby my place in the Bay Area, I was interviewed by CGTN America about ongoing US-China tech tensions.

The segment with me starts midway and goes to the end of the clip. Dan Ives goes first.

TV Clip of Interview during APEC 2023 About US-China Tech Tensions

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Alireza Masrour of

Plug and Play Ventures

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January 17

From Plug and Play in Silicon Valley, this VC is known for his ability to hyperscale startups across AI, web3, fintech and other disruptive fields. Since 2008, Alireza has led more than 200 venture investments at PNP.

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Eddy Chan

of Intudo Ventures in Silicon Valley and

Jakarta

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January 25

Eddy is a founding partner of Indonesia's VC firm Intudo Ventures, which manages $300 million in capital. The firm invests in Indonesian homegrown companies led by returnee and local entrepreneurs. Its best-known deal is payments unicorn Xendit, the "Stripe of Southeast Asia."

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