Temus launches AI Foundry in Singapore to scale deployment at enterprises

Plans to recruit over 50 AI talent and focus on operationalizing AI at production grade for enterprises.

Digital transformation solutions provider Temus has launched an AI Foundry in Singapore, supported by Digital Industry Singapore (DISG), to enable AI deployment at enterprises in a “better, faster, cheaper” manner.

The Temasek-owned firm will initially target clients in the financial services and precision health sectors, and aim to operationalize AI strategies from the experimentation stage into live production-grade projects with deliverable business outcomes.

The AI Foundry plans to hire over 50 Singapore-based professionals, including AI architects, data scientists, AI/ML engineers, product owners, and full-stack, DevOps and UX engineers, to build AI accelerators, governance frameworks, and delivery capabilities for enterprise AI.

“Today with AI, the capability is pushing so fast but usability is still very low, so there is a big gap and we want to use the foundry to have our talents work on the delivery construct that bridges that gap,” Sng Ren Yeong, chief executive officer at Temus told CRN Asia.

When asked how the AI Foundry compared to the capabilities offered by over 70 AI centers of excellence (COEs) in Singapore, Sng shared that Temus aims to be complementary in their services.

“[The foundry] is complementary to the ecosystem,” said Sng. “We are supporting the AI COEs. We have termed it differently because we are AI-deployment focused.

“A lot of the COEs individually [serve] within their own enterprise context. They are centers of excellence for their own domain. We have foundry to assist the COEs to scale faster, so we want to be an enabler for COEs.”

Focused on building capability, partnership with clients

Temus has initial use cases at several large enterprises, particularly in the financial services sector. This includes an agentic AI copilot for an investment company, as well as a secure, internally hosted AI knowledge assistant for a specialized financial institution.

The AI Foundry has also managed to deliver on an AI-powered lead management system for a regional telecommunications provider, and a multi-agent vulnerability management solution for a security and integrated services firm.

While the team is currently focused on partnering with Singapore-based clients on projects in the financial and health services domains first, Sng does not rule out pursuing customers in other sectors or have operations across Southeast Asia.

“We focus on financial services and healthcare just because that’s also the heritage of some of the projects we have worked with before and also builds on our domain expertise that we have internally,” he said.

“It’s less about saying, ‘oh, there’s [opportunity in] a sector here and a sector there’, but really understanding whether we can add value to the client first by building up capability and then addressing the domain.”

Beyond large enterprises, the team is working on ways to approach small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up the majority of organizations in Singapore, but may have a very different set of challenges and view on AI transformation projects.

“For SMEs generally, we still have to work on this because we definitely think that’s important in Singapore, so we want to find a way to be able to do that,” he said.

“We think the same framework, mindset and construct can work, but we need to figure out which ones to target [and] how to then help them in a scalable, repeatable manner that is sustainable for the business.”