Ammar Zolkipli
@azolkipli
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Heart attack survivor. Tech geek. Husband. Dad. KL born. Perlis raised. My company used to build cool AI stuff. Go Blue!
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I need to admit something. There was a time in my life I thought I was not good enough to get a job outside of Malaysia. Then I got a break & worked in a MNC under a French boss. He empowered me to lead regional and then global roles. And then I was offered to move to Japan HQ.
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@azwan_
Siapa2 yang support kerja outside of agreed hours is being stupid. Unless you are the owner of the company, you compensate those who you employ to work beyond their agreed scope. That's just being fair, bukan manja.
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My wife sacrificed her career because of similar concerns. And by the time our kids were old enough, she found it extremely difficult to be hired because she left the job market for so long. It's unfair really.
Women primarily opt out of the labour force due to caregiving and housework responsibilities.
#KRI
#AdvancingMalaysia
#IWD2024
#happywomensday2024
#InvestInWomenAccelerateProgress
#investinwomen
#womenempowement
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Patut cakap something snarky like, "You know how the Dutch colonized Indonesia and they get special visa coming here? Ya, same thing with us and UK."
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Just found this gem. Pre-covid, PMX
@anwaribrahim
visited our lab & we showed him what a bunch of local Malaysians can do with our AI platform. We're progressed so much from those days. Here's hoping for a better gov support to deliver Malaysian made AI tech worldwide
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Personally aku kurang respect orang yang nampak berjaya, tapi kuat pakai duit grant & parents/in-laws are orang besar. Lepas tu ada hati nak samakan macam the rest of us. Pergi mampos.
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Dalam 20+ tahun hidup aku bekerja, yang paling banyak kasi aku fair treatment ialah syarikat MNC dgn orang non Malaysian. Yang selalu buli dgn sailang aku, oreng Malaysia, syarikat Malaysia, gomen agensi Malaysia. Tapi aku berbakti jugak dekat negara ni. Sigh..
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Personally aku kena buli by our own govt agencies bila cuba nak create new tech business. Not only that, GLCs screwed me over on projects I was more than able to deliver. So this post rubs me the wrong way la. Bukan sebab bumiputera tapi sebab aku bukan someone well connected
Ini jemputan untuk kena kecam.
Apa visi saya untuk mengupayakan penyertaan ekonomi Bumiputera?
Saya datang dari keluarga susah, jadi pandangan saya mengenai sosio ekonomi banyak dipengaruhi oleh didikan ibu bapa saya semasa kecil.
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It built my confidence and validated that I'm worthy. And Alhamdulillah, I still get offers for jobs overseas. But I started my career in Malaysia. I know how shitty things are here because I also experienced the shitty things. The difference is, I got a break.
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@tuttobuno
@ironqil
No shame in doing anything to put food on the table for the family, bro.
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@nizamabdrazak
Harap2 Yaya belajar buat biskut dengan kawan2 di Jepun supaya boleh elakkan keracunan makanan
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@ironqil
Start kerja company local. Belajar the trade and excel at the work. Build relationships and show results of work with contacts and after 5-10 yrs of good track record, go apply. And then apply lagi. And then apply lagi. No shortcut.
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@LyanaKhairuddin
Actually, what's wrong with folks wanting to leave if they can't see a future for their kids? It's not like i haven't given my blood, sweat and tears for this country. I even nearly died. Go check your privilege too.
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It was clear to me then that even though the global private industry acknowledged my capability, I will struggle with my own govt. I don't need their validation. I just want to make this venture of mine succeed because I want to give others their break and we all succeed
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I'm now making a choice to give up my own personal success because I want to build an ecosystem and let us all get our break. Because that's the right thing to do. There are many in the country with potential that we don't give a chance. And that is what makes me angry.
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I was actually in a few meetings with Iris PMO for this project. Memang quite obvious they were a bodoh sombong bunch. Happy they lost the contract. Banyak kali benda camni jadi dekat Malaysia govt and we never learn. Last2 rakyat suffer. Everybody else unharmed
Iris Corp Bhd memaklumkan bahawa Kementerian Dalam Negeri telah membatalkan kontrak Projek Sistem Imigresen Bersepadu Nasional (NIISe) yang dianugerahkan kepada syarikat tersebut
Projek itu dikatakan ada kaitan dgn menantu bekas PM, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, iaitu Adlan Berhan
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Should that fail though, I'll probably sell off everything and migrate to another country. Because at the very least I can't let my wife and kids suffer.
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Ni aku dah belajar. Gomen lagi sanggup bagi duit banyak dekat failing businesses lapuk dari invest sikit in small startups in new growth markets.
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I expect any day 1 release of an app is expected to have problems. It happens to everyone: Microsoft, Google, Amazon included. It happened to PADU. The expected behavior then is to identify the gaps and start fixing it one at a time. I think the team behind it is. Good job. 1/n
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We've managed to improve the accuracy of our ALPR detector to above 99% for all sorts of Malaysian plates. Not only that, all the detection is done at road speeds in real-time on an Intel CPU. No special hardware. No need to stop to detect.
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I personally tried to get govt support AFTER I came back from Japan, but was summarily denied. Had to find a job to make ends meet while still building my startup, and easily got a regional post in Intel. Meanwhile, only after we've proven some success did govt offered support
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@chairman_GLC
Let's be FAIR. University grads sekarang pun makin lama makin out of sync with industry needs. Malaysia punya TVET programs pun neither here nor there. Maybe it's better to just start an apprenticeship at the next job and learn hands on
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Pasal server CIQ terbakar. Aku actually tak terkejut & tak peduli. Ada je monyet dalam tu yang sengaja tanak buat benda betul. Trust me, ada je orang yg propose either High Availability atau DR solution, tapi kena rejek dgn alasan " lkita dah buat. " Sekian.
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As a software company that write and own our source codes and AI models, it disturbs me to see demands in govt tenders to pass our source codes over and ownership to the govt of Malaysia. Wtf, You want me to close shop? Aku kasi license to use je la macam Microsoft. Cukup la.
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@erhanazrai
1. Budak ivy league je berani cakap camtu.
2. Hoih.. UniMAP hebat, ok. (wakil orang perlih)
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20 tahun dulu memang cita2 nak kerja dekat US lepas dah grad. Tapi tak dapat. Somehow rezeki, keje MNC w/ US HQ. Biz trip la ke US every quarter. At some point US jadi polarized towards foreigners, especially muslims. And these days aku just avoid US. It's not the same anymore
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To give context the team only had 6 weeks and a very small dataset to curate the most optimal AI model, train it, tweak it and iterate until we got to this level of quality. All on a shoestring budget. Imagine how much better it could be if we had more time and data.
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A constant reminder of Malaysia's failure to recognize and support a local unicorn. Lepas dah pergi Singapore baru terhegeh-hegeh. Learn from your mistakes and do better lah. And congrats to GRAB. They deserve it.
From Segambut to New York: GRAB celebrates listing milestone
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@syabilazriAS
@melatinungsari
Seriously? My mistake then. Sucks to be colonized by the Dutch.
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@ZahinZulkipli
Mamat ni bercerai dgn bini dia late last year. Sebab tu kot tak dak pak mertua yg mai support. Habih la ranap semua benda.
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@huseinzol05
@MagusWyvern
Nak chip-in belikan tablet ke at least? Kita kena pupuk raw talent and passion
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Not having money to survive is one of the biggest hurdle to charting your own path, because your mind is filled with thoughts of how to pay for your next meal/meds/home/kids education. I didn't understand this until i didn't have anything left.
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Good initiative. But can easily backfire if they're not linking up with industry and being sensitive with where the market is going. Takut nanti ajar outdated garbage.
Kementerian Pendidikan Tinggi (KPT) bekerjasama Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) dalam membangunkan Fakulti Kecerdasan Buatan (AI) pertama di Malaysia
Pelajar kohort pertama program Ijazah Sarjana Muda Kecerdasan Buatan (AI) akan memulakan pengajian Oktober ini
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Not only that but also identify classes of vehicles in real time too. Imagine how such AI technology can drastically help improve our highway and traffic problems.
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To be honest kan. Aku kagum dgn technical talent generasi ni. Aku terkial2 dah nak follow dgn the ever changing tech stack. Dah la aku bukan software guy. Tapi aku tengok budak2 ni sempoi je pickup. Selalu rasa tertinggal compared dgn diorang.
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Ni betul la ni. Malakat Mall & CBD area is pretty much dead. Whatever Cyberview has been doing isn't really working. We took up space at Tamarind Square because it was a more lively area than most in Cyberjaya.
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Brother in law came back from Jakarta and I guess our cat has baju raya.
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@chairman_GLC
Ini bisnis bagus ni. Net profit millions. Although, kalau dia spend more to reduce taxable amount pun no harm. Sebab money circulation tu helps economy gak. Tapi respek la in this day yg ramai startups & unicorns loss making.
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Shit.. 98% tu takde backup. Cardinal sin tu. This is an opportunity to terrorize govt agencies here to have better data protection hygiene.
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@terpalingcyber
Cemana la diorang boleh push without testing. Bukannya company kodi. Also, on enterprise user side change mgmt diorang pun ke laut. Never do software updates until dah test in staging env. Especially critical systems.
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@neddokhan
That got me in the feels. I grew up in Perlis and had friends who come to school with selipar Jepun. These subsidy programs like kupon sarapan and susu sekolah really help them lessen the family burden. You can only imagine how difficult their life is to rely on these things.
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So, a French based IT consulting company is looking for developers. Full stack, JS, TS, PHP, Java, C++. Doesn't matter. You know your chops. They'll test you and will hire if you pass. The APAC boss is a friend. Drop me a note if you're interested.
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Officially letting the working world know today that I am a co-founder of ITXOTIC. Feels great to be out of stealth mode. Let's make some big deals happen.
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Lol having lived in Tokyo for a few years, ye Jepun panas time tu. Tapi Jepun banyak tempat banyak pokok rendang, nyaman etc. Beach dia pun air sejuk. Summer festivals are also just as fun.
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@_joni_joni_joni
Ni la my target. Build wealth to generate passive income utk cover basic expenses. Lepas tu boleh go all out.
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Apa kata hangpa senyap dulu & dengar apa tech startup perlukan utk maju, dari dok syok sendiri buat polisi & program yang tak efektif.
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So...
Pertama di Malaysia, inilah INNOVATHON! Saksikan program realiti yang mencungkil idea-idea hebat dan inovatif serta bakal merealisasikan impian rakyat Malaysia!! Dihoskan oleh Awal Ashaari dan Datin Lisa Surihani berserta Juri, Fazura dan Mentor Datuk Aznil Nawawi.
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Saw this on LinkedIn. Much respect to those who started from scratch.
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@niksxn
You can look at it in a different way. Random hours doesn't mean the work all the time straight. They take breaks here and there. Some days they prioritize getting something sorted at 3am, other days they start working at noon. There's some balance in the madness.
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@hafizudinhamdan
At one point was working at PETRONAS as a disaster recovery consultant. Gempaq ah konon.
Balik Perlih, jumpa sedara. Dia tanya, "Sekarang kerja mana?". To which i answered,"PETRONAS."
Then the next question was,"Oh, ye ke. Petrol stesyen yang mana satu?"
I quit 6 months later.
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Gomen launched a new initiative today. Looking at the picture below, it's probably meant for people who have no idea about current state of AI. Okay kot. Andrew Ng's AI For Everyone free online course is probably as easy to understand with more content. So what's next?
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Actually, all I ever wanted to do was build cool shit and be paid well for it. Tu jer. Tanak main politik, tanak hustle, tanak buat benda tak jujur. Just build cool shit that can benefit people.
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@rafidah72
Protect the future generation by reading the bill thoroughly perhaps and seeing the big holes. The one you should be concerned is no punishment to the cigarette suppliers. Stop being selectively blind.
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@paultantk
Jap jap... 110 per head ke 1100 to rent the whole room? Ini dah boleh buat company event dah ni
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@rafiziramli
Personal experience YB, the issue is in the ministry and agencies. We innovate and push high tech solutions but get crippled when dealing with agency officers who don't know how to collaborate with us. The paradox starts there. Outdated policies nobody knows how to fix.
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Ada certs yg berguna & regulated. Ada yang buang masa. Eg, certs from MBOT & BEM takde makna kalau buat kerja IT utk luar Malaysia. Tapi CCIE is worth it's weight in gold dlm Data Center Network industry. Pilihlah mana yang penting utk career anda. & back it up with experience.
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It's official. ITXOTIC is an award winning company. And who better from than a prestigious organization like IET. This is a team effort. Congrats to the team.
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5 tahun aku dah buat deep tech startup ni. In short, cara gomen kita bagi support vs cara modern countries macam Jepun, Germany, AU & US bagi support is like langit dgn bumi. Tak payah agak la siapa yang bumi.
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@nzranasr
I shame friends who are T20 and still want to send their kids to MRSM because of legacy. Hilang la slot allocated utk anak orang miskin.
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Wow.. Google made a big mess with their layoffs. Even cut access to a site reliability engineer who was still on call. I'm expecting a big negative response from the ex-employees and community.
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@chairmanGLC
Suruh dia tengok balik video chef Amar menangis teringat masa tak cukup duit nak bagi anak2 makan. Then he can talk about burnout.
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Dulu ada orang tanya if we can detect is harsh conditions. These are examples of night time glaring lights, odd letterings and confusing multiple plates. I probably can't keep this up for too long. So enjoy.
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@rezarazali
Kalau tengok price to pieces ratio, 5 piece cikin is the most cost effective utk 1-2 ppl.
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Aku macam nak offer pakai space office aku utk a tech community event. After hours la tapi. DM me if you got ideas. It's in Taman Tun & dekat dgn the MRT station.
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Gotta note this down. One of the most highly successful local startup told me that even though they've received millions of investment money, they ran their business without a physical office for more than 2 years. Gomen tak boleh brain this sort of working style aku rasa.
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Seriously, your rose tinted glasses are on too tight. Yes, Malaysia is still pretty competitive, but I wouldn't go around claiming we're a hub of any sort. Our neighboring countries are quickly overtaking us, mind you.
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@melatinungsari
Boleh recreate the Asakusa experience jalan dekat luar in traditional clothes.
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@surayaror
7 years with MNC you should be at or close to 5 digit salary already in this economy. Time to change jobs.
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Of the many AI projects done in Malaysia, these guys I can vouch are as legit as they come. Hopefully this will be a one off by our minister. We have amazing local talents. You need to empower them.
Perbincangan yang menarik bersama delegasi dari Mesolitica, sebuah pembangun Kecerdasan Buatan Multimodal bagi Asia Tenggara. Kunjungan yang diketuai oleh Tn. Khalil Nooh, Pengasas Bersama dan CEO, serta Tn. Husein Zolkipli, Ketua Pegawai Teknologi membincangkan pelbagai aspek
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@robotys
Lagi satu, internal consumption lebih favorable ke foreign technology, especially GLCs dgn gomen sendiri.
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1. I was a Hitachi employee. It's a good company
2. I know Kumazaki-san personally. He's an honest and smart guy with a strong software engineering career
3. I trust Hitachi way more than Fusionex.
The stink is only coming from one corner
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Aku kenal personally a senior guy dlm i2M ventures ni. Malangnya diorang dah kaya gila from big fat salaries. And at best they get a slap on the wrist for wasting the country's money. Cemana?
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Dia camni la eh. Takde langsung geran atau funding support dari MOSTI agencies yang boleh digunakan untuk bayar gaji utk talents buat AI ni. Kalau takde duit boleh deploy nak bayar makan minum & rumah new talents ni sambil dia nak buat AI, trust me it won't happen.
AI Sandbox programme expected to create 900 startups and 13,000 new talents by 2026
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My first job in Malaysia was with Panasonic as an R&D engineer. It was just a lot of component design tweaking for AM FM radio circuits. Pretty basic EE know how really. Not the kind that
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Tak la harap US level salary. Tapi we're at the bottom 10 kot. A potential reason why STEM is withering? Or an opportunity to win big contracts at lower cost?
Software Developer salaries have crazy variations around the world.
One thing is crystal clear, though:
- Regardless of where you live, working remotely for a US company will increase your salary.
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Dah 33 tahun, maknanya dah lama keje one company la tu kot. Also, why buy an 800k house with only a 12k salary. Agak bahaya tu. Agak2 40% income kena bayar utk rumah for 30 years.
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Dapat la merasa macam tech geek sekejap. Jumpa orang yg cerita topic macam data structure, computer vision & cloud infrastructure. Ramai budak2 cerdik la ni.
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@amerhadiazmi
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I hire computer engineers for my company and a lot of what they are learning in uni is out of date or irrelevant to the job being offered. Isu is local universities dah makin out of sync with real world needs. We have to spend precious time and money to retrain them after grad
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@Benny_TehVerto
Scientifically proven you need knock out the bubbles from the beverage or it will cause bloating.
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7 months ago I almost died from a heart attack. It was unexpected. I thought I was healthy and was taking care of myself. Next thing i know I now have heart failure. Let's just say some days now I have anxiety attacks and other days I'm grateful to still be alive.
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Amazon spent above USD 20B for 10,000 people to work on their big projects. Assume MOSTI nak 13,000 new AI talents to be present in Malaysia, berapa billion nak kena spend? And siapa nak foot the bill?
I don’t think people realize the scale of the very largest tech companies & the resources they can deploy.
Amazon has spent between $20B & $43B on Alexa alone & has/had 10,000 people working on it.
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@fabhar
Thanks. Our biggest challenge as a local tech startup is nobody really believed in us, and we don't really have a big company funding us. We're still 100% bootstrap, but proving on project at a time that we know what we're doing.
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2nd anniversary of surviving a heart attack. Happy to be alive.
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The few times I interacted with MIMOS, they believed they have the latest tech for go to market, but in fact it was either too outdated or to far in research stage & not ready for market. They wanted SMEs to cough up the money upfront, and it was expensive
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Perlis is at capacity guys. Siapa yang orang Kedah atau Thailand, tolong balik rumah sat. Nanti lepaih kami habih undi hangpa boleh masuk balik.
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