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So Conference East Tech West 2025 On June 27 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Julian Gorman, head of the Asia-Pacific region at the GSMA Mobile Networking Trade Network, said it would be a negative development if Southeast Asia was forced to choose among any superpower.
“Southeast Asia is very dependent on both economies, both China and America. I think it is quite difficult to think that they will go one way or another,” Gorman said.
“It is very important to continue to focus on fragmenting the technology, standardizing it and working so that the technology exceeds geopolitics and ultimately used for good,” he added.
The distribution of American and Chinese AI companies in New global markets This year was a great trend as Beijing and Washington are looking for global influence In modern technologies.
US and China suggestions
According to George Chen, managing director and co -chair of Digital Practice for Asia Group, Southeast Asia initially tilted to AI models from the United States, such as those from Google and Microsoft.
However, the appearance of China Deepseek drives the popularity of the company’s models in Southeast Asia due to its low cost and open code licensing that can be used to upgrade and adapt models to regional priorities.
Open code usually refers to software in which the source code is provided freely available, allowing everyone to view, change and redistribute it. Players of large language models in China were Bending over in this business model From Deepseek’s debut.
Previous panels East Tech West has noted open source models as an important tool for regions outside China and the United States to build their own sovereign capabilities for AI.
Meanwhile, from the hardware side, the United States remains a leader in AI processors through a chip giant NVIDIA. While the United States restricted China’s access to these chips, they remain on the market for Southeast Asia – which Chen suggested that the region continues to take advantage.
Chen, however, noted that AI’s landscape is likely to be able to change dramatically after a decade, and China can provide more affordable NVIDIA alternatives.
“Do not take the side easily and too quickly. Consider how to maximize your economic potential,” he suggested.
GSMA Gsma said that facing this “balancing act” between the superpowers is not new to Southeast Asia. For example, the mobility industry in the region relies heavily on Chinese technological production and hardware, as well as on the United States in other areas such as telecommunications.
The growth of Southeast Asia
Although the US and China are clearly ahead in the construction of model AI models, Southeast Asia has its advantage in the global space of AI, participants in the area said.
“If you think about AI as a technology, you have to apply it to a real product or service. Here’s how people can use it,” CHEN told Asia Group.
The region has a strong application environment that offers “great potential,” he added. “The demographic is young, which means that the potential for talent is always available. The price of a river is relatively more cheap than other places.”
Cost considerations have already contributed to the growth of Malaysia as a Global power plant in AI data centers and computingEspecially in the South Johor area.
However, Southeast Asia must strive to bring companies with advanced opportunities that the internal industry can learn and take advantage of – a strategy that China uses to catch up with the West in advanced technology, Chen said.
Leader in AI regulation?
According to GSma Gsma, Southeast Asia can serve as neutral soil between China and the United States, where the two countries can gather and join in high -level dialogues How to apply AI responsibly.
Southeast Asia can also play a proactive role in the regulation of AI itself, he said, citing recent examples of regulatory leadership in the region, such as Singapore Shared to deal with international fraud and fraud.
So far, there are few global provisions for AI. While the EU has accepted a PolicyThe countries of the US and ASEAN still do not follow the example.
Chen added that the region would have to unite and accept common frameworks in order to obtain a greater place on the global development table and regulation of AI.