{"id":7572,"date":"2026-04-19T06:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/7572\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:11:13","slug":"asias-supply-chain-strengths-could-give-it-edge-over-us-in-ai-race-granite-asias-foo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/7572\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia\u2019s supply chain strengths could give it edge over US in AI race: Granite Asia\u2019s Foo"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the artificial intelligence race<\/a> moves beyond language models into the physical world, Asia\u2019s manufacturing and supply chain strengths could give it an edge over the US, says Granite Asia\u2019s Jixun Foo.The veteran venture capitalist said the current wave of AI development, sparked by breakthroughs in foundation models over the past two years, had entered a new phase where physical applications \u2013 from robotics to industrial automation<\/a> \u2013 were becoming increasingly important, playing to Asia\u2019s long-standing manufacturing strengths.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI is not just about models or applications in software,\u201d said Foo, senior managing partner at Granite Asia, in a recent interview with the South China Morning Post. \u201cIf you look at Asia, our advantage is in the supply chain, hardware and engineering capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

That advantage, he added, stemmed from a deeply integrated industrial base spanning mainland China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, allowing faster iteration and large-scale deployment<\/a> of AI-enabled hardware, which could give Asia an edge as the focus of AI shifted from \u201clanguage models\u201d to \u201creal-world applications\u201d.<\/p>\n

The shift was also being reflected in venture capital flows, with investors increasingly focusing on application-layer companies that could generate tangible use cases and revenue, rather than purely model-driven businesses, according to Foo.<\/p>\n

\"AsiaAsia has the AI advantage in supply chains, hardware and engineering capabilities, according to a venture capitalist.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we look at [opportunities in] AI, we don\u2019t just look at models or applications in isolation \u2013 we look at the entire ecosystem,\u201d Foo said. \u201cThe key question is what industries it can transform and what kind of value it can unlock.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the artificial intelligence race moves beyond language models into the physical world, Asia\u2019s manufacturing and supply chain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,3991,2817,6714,2700,6717,6713,377,3540,1414,6712,993,156,6716,6715],"class_list":{"0":"post-7572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-asia","11":"tag-baidu","12":"tag-granite-asia","13":"tag-hong-kong","14":"tag-jixun-foo","15":"tag-manycore-tech","16":"tag-robotics","17":"tag-singapore","18":"tag-south-china-morning-post","19":"tag-southeast-asia","20":"tag-supply-chain","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-venture-capitalist","23":"tag-xpeng"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}