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AI-summarised brief · reviewed before publication

At a Singapore‑China FutureChina Global Forum panel titled “Putting AI to Work: What Separates the Enterprise Leaders,” senior executives argued that the AI divide in Asia is organisational, not technological. Speakers—including venture‑capital founder Cynthia Zhang, Patsnap co‑founder Guan Dian, Nvidia’s Simon See, Gleneagles Hospital CEO Thomas Wee and Black Lake Technologies founder Zhou Yuxiang—stressed that companies can experiment with chatbots, yet most remain stuck in pilot phases due to integration costs, data‑security concerns and resistance to workflow changes. Zhou illustrated a shift from generic AI tools to narrow “agents” that translate engineering designs into work instructions, improving accuracy from 60 % to 98 % through clean proprietary data and human‑in‑the‑loop reinforcement learning. The forum, organized by Business China, highlighted that leadership willingness to redesign work processes, rather than merely deploy tools, determines AI success for enterprises in Singapore, China and, by extension, Thailand.