The forum, hosted by the Asian Simulation Alliance, focused on the integration of AI and modeling and simulation, featuring international standard exchanges, platform unveilings, and keynote reports. ISO 21175-1:2026 was released, the alliance's member home and internship bases were inaugurated, and the 2026 World Simulation Congress was announced for November in Hangzhou.
At the 2026 iMPSS Asia-Pacific Summit and the 9th Organoid and Organ-on-a-Chip Academic Conference, researchers demonstrated AI-integrated organ-on-a-chip technology. Experts said the combination of AI with organoids and organ-on-a-chip will create a humanized, data-driven drug development model. Zhang Yujian, CEO of Suzhou Beilun Bio, presented the progress of the world's first personalized mRNA tumor vaccine clinical study integrating organ-on-a-chip and AI.
AI startup ASI announced a $325 million funding round on October 20, 2026, at a valuation of $3 billion. The round was led by Spark Capital, with participation from Citadel Securities affiliate, Meritech Capital, and Craft Ventures.
Mosqitter co-founder and CEO Anastasiia Romanova said the company plans to upgrade its chemical-free mosquito traps into an AI-powered monitoring network to identify mosquito species, track population changes and provide earlier warnings about disease risks. The company has over 5,000 devices deployed across five continents, up from about 250 in 2022.
Speaking at the DBS Asia Future Forward conference in Singapore on Oct 12, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan compared many AI investors to casino gamblers who lack understanding of the technology but expect high returns. He cited OpenAI's $50 billion annualized revenue in September despite continued losses due to training costs as evidence that revenue growth does not equal a validated business model. Tan said capital has replaced chips, storage and power as the biggest constraint on AI, with wafer shortages likely to improve by 2028-2029 and computing supply-demand imbalance possibly lasting until 2029 or 2030, though demand could slow if model adoption disappoints.
At the Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore on October 8, 2026, Goldman Sachs' Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) head Kevin Sneader said new hires will manage AI agents from day one instead of waiting years to become managers, and reassigning existing mid-level managers will be a generational challenge across many fields. Co-panelist Sandra Peterson, operating partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, said the traditional career ladder may disappear, while MAS Managing Director Chia Der Jiun said operational staff will need to transition into managers and supervisors of AI agents, and banks will need fewer fresh graduates for analytical and preparatory roles.
OpenAI has internally deployed its self-developed Jalapeño ASIC chips, paired with AMD EPYC Turin hosts featuring 1.5TB of memory. Richard Ho cited 'pragmatic' reasons for choosing Turin over Nvidia's Vera CPU, which he said lags in maturity. The chip design follows de-risking and rapid-deployment principles; it is currently for internal use only, with potential broader adoption if resources allow.
RoboLab, a global high-fidelity simulation benchmark, released its latest rankings. OASIS WAM, developed by Synkrotron and the University of Science and Technology of China, ranked first overall across 120 vision-language-manipulation tasks, outperforming NVIDIA, Google, Physical Intelligence and other teams. It is the only Chinese team on the list.
Jiang Weiran, Vice President of R&D at Farasis Energy, said at the IHR 2026 Second International Humanoid Robot Summit that humanoid robots still need to pass the dual threshold of cost optimization and real value creation before true mass production, and advised companies expanding overseas to deeply integrate into local markets. The company has launched its first-generation hybrid solid-liquid battery for humanoid robots with an energy density exceeding 330Wh/kg, with samples sent to customers including UBTech and XPeng; its first-generation sulfide all-solid-state battery has completed 400Wh/kg pouch cell preparation, with related products also sampled to leading customers.