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Mistral AI accelerates Singapore expansion with strategic partnership and industry collaborations
Mistral AI, a pioneer in Generative Artificial Intelligence, has announced its expansion in Singapore through a strategic partnership with HTX and collaborations with Singtel, NCS and ST Engineering, to advance local AI capabilities. By combining independent infrastructure with its leading models, Mistral AI will provide state-of-the-art customisable AI solutions to serve Public Services & Education, Healthcare & Sustainability and Finance, Logistics & Manufacturing; enabling secure, responsible deployment of frontier AI in mission-critical environments. This reflects the company’ s commitment to Singapore’ s AI growth and the broader Asia Pacific region.
Mistral AI will provide HTX with infrastructure that will support high-performance inference and fine-tuning, as well as a developer toolkit to facilitate rapid, secure application development. In addition, Mistral AI will work with HTX to identify innovative technology and engineering solutions to enhance Home Team’ s operations and deepen HTX’ s technical capabilities through training.
In parallel, Mistral AI has also entered into a Memoranda of Understanding( MOU) with Singtel, NCS and ST Engineering, further strengthening its ecosystem. The partnerships will focus on applying and scaling the deployment of Mistral AI’ s frontier AI models across enterprise and mission-critical environments, enabling organisations to develop high-impact use cases by providing secure infrastructure and responsible deployment frameworks.
“ Our continued commitment to Singapore reflects our belief in its role as a leading hub for AI innovation and AI infrastructure development,” said Arthur Mensch, CEO and Co-founder of Mistral AI.“ We are entering a defining phase of growth across Singapore, where we see a unique opportunity to shape how AI is built, governed and applied at scale, alongside local agencies and partners such as Singtel, NCS, HTX and ST Engineering.”
Okta finds AI adoption is accelerating across APAC, but identity gaps remain
Organisations across Asia Pacific are rapidly adopting AI and automation, but many lack the identity controls needed to manage this shift securely, according to new data from Okta’ s Businesses at Work 2026 report.
As AI adoption accelerates, non-human identities, including AI agents, bots and service accounts, are expanding rapidly across enterprise environments and can outnumber human users by as much as 45 to 1. early in defining ownership for AI security, increasing the risk of unmanaged or‘ shadow’ AI activity.
Across APAC, organisations are balancing rapid AI adoption with an increasing focus on security and governance. As automation scales, identity and access management is becoming a critical control point, with security applications among
the fastest-growing categories in many organisations’ technology stacks.
The findings reinforce the growing importance of identity as the foundation for securing AI. As organisations continue to scale adoption, extending visibility, access controls and governance across both human and non-human identities will be critical to maintaining trust and control.
Despite this, only around 10 % of organisations report having identity systems fully equipped to manage and secure these identities, highlighting a growing gap between adoption and control.
Governance and accountability are also emerging as key challenges. As AI becomes more embedded in business operations, many organisations are still
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