{"id":508312,"date":"2026-05-29T07:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/508312\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:57:13","slug":"singapores-sea-sets-up-ai-investment-team-in-hunt-for-next-growth-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/508312\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore\u2019s Sea Sets Up AI Investment Team in Hunt for Next Growth Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/SE:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Sea Ltd.<\/a> has set up a dedicated team to scout for new investments in AI, part of a broader effort to accelerate forays into the technology as it hunts for its next growth engine beyond e-commerce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The investment unit sits directly under the president\u2019s office and is one of several initiatives Sea\u2019s established to dedicate capital toward internal and external AI projects, according to people familiar with the matter. The group, led by longtime executive Endong Zhang, evaluates potential investments in startups globally, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sea Ltd. has set up a dedicated team to scout for new investments in AI, part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,150223,289,290,12008,4595,18,12276,1729,220495,19,17,220494,220493,1999,238,82],"class_list":["post-508312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alibaba-group-holding-sp-adr","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-e-commerce","tag-eire","tag-executives","tag-finance","tag-forrest-li","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mao-lin-chang","tag-sea-ltd-adr","tag-singapore","tag-startups","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116656802817604204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}