National AI Missions
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Last updated on 11 November 2026
Singapore’s National AI Missions bring together leading companies, researchers and Government to tackle ambitious real-world problems across Advanced Manufacturing, Connectivity, Financial Services and Healthcare.
Partner with us to develop, test, deploy and scale high-impact AI solutions in real-world settings – from Singapore to the region and beyond.
Singapore’s National AI Strategy lays the foundation for this ambition by strengthening our talent, research capabilities, infrastructure and trusted environment needed to drive AI transformation through the National AI Missions.
Turning Ambitious Challenges into Real-World Impact
The Advanced Manufacturing, Connectivity, Financial Services and Healthcare sectors are critical to Singapore’s economy and national priorities, contributing around 40% of our GDP. Each sector presents ambitious challenges where AI could unlock new sources of productivity, innovation, and competitive advantage.
Singapore brings together sophisticated industries, research and engineering talent, capital, compute, data capabilities and international connections in a trusted, pro-innovation environment. The National AI Missions build on these strengths, providing real-world testbeds to develop and validate AI solutions, and translate these technological breakthroughs into practical applications.
For companies and researchers, the Missions offer opportunities to tackle meaningful problems alongside sector experts, advance frontier and applied AI, and build solutions in Singapore that can scale across the region and beyond. These opportunities will evolve as solutions are developed, tested and validated with partners, with their eventual deployment and scale guided by real-world outcomes and sector-specific requirements.
Explore our National AI Missions
Advanced Manufacturing
Connectivity
Financial Services
Healthcare
Advanced Manufacturing
Build the next generation of intelligent manufacturing that is modular, flexible and autonomous.
The Grand Challenge
Substantially increase manufacturing output, productivity, and innovation across the manufacturing value chain, from discovering new materials to running safer, smarter and more adaptive factories.
Manufacturing is a cornerstone of Singapore’s economy and contributes ~20% of our GDP. To remain globally competitive, Singapore must lead in end-to-end AI-driven transformation, from materials discovery and product design to factory operations.
Our ambition is to reimagine manufacturing by establishing best-in-class factories that are modular, flexible, and autonomous in their operations, harness AI to drive product and process innovation, and build a strong base of frontier industrial AI companies from Singapore.
What Singapore Provides
Singapore’s manufacturing sector is globally integrated, diverse and technologically advanced – we account for one in 10 chips and one-fifth of global semiconductor equipment produced annually, and contribute to 10 per cent of global maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) output in aerospace. We are ranked second globally in industrial robot density, with 818 robots deployed per 10,000 employees. This is complemented by a strong STEM talent pipeline with deep engineering expertise, strong intellectual property protection, and a stable regulatory environment. Companies and researchers can gain access to a dense concentration of sophisticated deployment environments to develop, test, validate, and scale your solutions from Singapore.
Accelerating innovation across the manufacturing value chain
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Embodied AI
Deploy intelligent robotics in real production environments
Enable the testing, validation, and deployment of Embodied AI in real operating environments at scale.
AI for materials and product innovation
Compress time from discovery to market
Use AI across materials discovery, design, simulation, prototyping, qualification and scale-up to shorten innovation cycles and unlock new products and manufacturing processes.
Software-defined manufacturing
Close the loop from design to production
Apply AI across product design, process planning, shopfloor execution and quality control to shorten the path from engineering decisions to production and enable rapid changeovers in complex manufacturing environments.
Connectivity
Keep people and goods moving safely and efficiently, overcoming challenges.
The Grand Challenge
Build the world’s most efficient and resilient hub for moving people and goods by using AI to overcome our physical and manpower constraints.
Singapore is one of the world’s busiest transport hubs and traffic is set to grow further as economic activity across the Asia-Pacific expands. When ready in the mid-2030s, Changi Airport Terminal 5 will increase our airport capacity by about 50 million passengers per year, from the current 90 million passengers. When completed in the 2040s, Tuas Port will handle up to 65 million TEUs per year, from the current 44 million TEUs. Beyond building new infrastructure, as transport networks and supply chains continue to grow more complex and interconnected, Singapore must also find smarter ways to manage rising volumes and potential disruptions.
AI offers opportunities to transform how transport networks operate, enabling airports, ports and land transport systems to handle growing volumes, anticipate disruptions and recover more swiftly from shocks. By developing and testing these solutions in an integrated transport hub like Singapore, we can advance AI capabilities that strengthen the efficiency and resilience of transport and supply chains globally.
What Singapore Provides
Singapore plays a key role in the flow of goods between East and West, and across the Asia-Pacific. In 2026, our port connects us to more than 600 seaports and our airport is connected to around 170 cities. Our public transport network supports around 7.5 million passenger trips daily. We are ranked first in the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index. Singapore is a strong testbed for companies to develop, test and prove new solutions in real-world transport operations. Solutions developed here can then scale across the region, to ports, airports, land transport networks and supply chains worldwide.
Building an efficient, resilient hub for the flow of people and goods
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Aviation
Manage denser air traffic flows and busier airside operations
Optimise airport, airlines, ground handling and air traffic operations as a single, inter-connected system to deliver a seamless passenger experience.
Anticipate disruptions before they cascade, and coordinate recovery swiftly across all operators so passengers and cargo keep moving.
Advance AI for air traffic management that can safely handle the expected increase in air traffic in the region.
Maritime
Orchestrate port operations end to end, amidst space and manpower constraints
Coordinate and integrate vessel, anchorage, port and cargo operations cohesively, so our port handles more traffic within limited space.
Advance autonomous vessels and embodied AI for port operations, harness AI agents to streamline port services, and leverage advanced predictive AI to detect safety risks earlier.
Logistics
Orchestrate supply chains across companies, modes and borders
Leverage AI to discover and recommend routes, modes and capacity across the end-to-end cargo journey, so goods are delivered on time, at lower cost and more reliably, both in normal operations and when disruptions occur.
Connect logistics players through trusted, permission-based data sharing, so companies coordinate across the journey while keeping control of their commercially sensitive data and their own commercial decisions.
Enable companies to plan, coordinate and optimise their regional and global supply chains from a trade hub like Singapore, with greater end-to-end visibility and resilience wherever their goods are moving.
Land Transport
Optimise journeys across our transport network
Use AI to anticipate travel demand and network conditions, and help commuters make better choices across public transport, point-to-point, driving, walking and cycling.
Understand commuter behaviour, preferences and patterns to personalise routes, timing and incentives to individual needs, while nudging journeys towards choices that optimise our road and transport capacity.
Rail
Build a self-running, self-optimising, self-healing railway
Move beyond predictive maintenance to AI and robotics that autonomously detect, diagnose and fix faults across trains, tracks, tunnels and stations.
Robots take on difficult and laborious tasks such as track and tunnel inspections, easing manpower constraints while humans oversee operations and undertake higher-value roles.
Financial Services
Deliver the next generation of secure, inclusive and efficient financial services.
The Grand Challenge
Transform financial services with AI to generate new growth opportunities, better serve real economy needs and strengthen risk management.
As a leading international financial centre in Asia, Singapore has significant opportunity to harness AI to address global priorities in the financial sector. Our ambition is to grow AI capabilities across the financial services sector, to generate new growth opportunities, better serve real economy needs, and strengthen regulatory compliance and risk management through AI solutions.
What Singapore Provides
Singapore’s FinTech ecosystem is steadily growing and maturing, and we adopt an ecosystem approach to harness AI for financial sector needs. We seek to pool together data and capabilities across financial ecosystem participants, including financial institutions, frontier AI firms, and researchers, to achieve impactful solutions that no single institution would be able to do on its own. Frontier AI firms can work with financial institutions to co-develop and test AI solutions around common problems, facilitated by governed data and trusted test environments. Researchers can bring research and engineering expertise, and share methodologies to evaluate, benchmark and deploy AI solutions.
Harnessing AI for trusted, next-generation financial services
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Healthcare
Smarter prevention. Seamless care. Healthier lives.
The Grand Challenge
Harness and scale AI for better population health and more efficient care delivery.
Ageing populations, increasing chronic disease burden, workforce constraints and rising healthcare costs demand healthcare systems worldwide to reimagine new ways to deliver care. AI can augment clinical decisions, enable earlier intervention, optimise resource use and help individuals manage their health beyond the hospital.
Singapore’s ambition is to harness AI to improve chronic disease management and limit growth of healthcare costs, scaling AI to benefit every care setting.
What Singapore Brings
Singapore’s integrated public healthcare system, longitudinal and multi-domain health data, practical and risk-based approach to AI governance, and experience in piloting new care models provide a strong foundation for validating, test-bedding and scaling healthcare AI. Companies and researchers can tackle real-world problems that meaningfully benefit the lives of everyday people, healthcare professionals and providers.
Pioneering new models of care through human-centred AI
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Efficient, sustainable healthcare operations
Give care teams more time for patients
Apply AI to reduce administrative load and improve productivity of healthcare professionals, optimise clinical and operational resources, enabling healthcare professionals to focus on patient care rather than process work.
Predictive, preventive care
Support earlier and more targeted intervention
Combine appropriate clinical, lifestyle, genomic and socioeconomic insights to improve individualised disease-risk prediction and detect warning signs of disease progression earlier, at population scale.
Personalised, seamless care delivery
Empower residents to proactively manage their health
Provide tailored health and lifestyle recommendations, support continuity of care across care settings through AI health assistants and digital health applications.
Build what comes next, together
The next big breakthroughs in AI could start with you – right here in Singapore. Singapore’s National AI Missions bring together industry, researchers and Government to tackle ambitious real-world challenges. Whether you’re an AI startup, established company or researcher, we invite you to bring your ideas and expertise, collaborate with leading partners and help shape what comes next.
Ready to be part of a National AI Mission? Get in touch with us.
Advanced Manufacturing: Contact us | Singapore EDB (opens in new tab)
Connectivity: Contact us | Ministry of Transport (opens in new tab)
Financial Services: Contact Us | Monetary Authority of Singapore (opens in new tab)
Healthcare: Email us at MOH_AISC_Secretariat@moh.gov.sg
Have an idea that goes beyond these Missions? Reach out to MDDI here (opens in new tab).
Explore opportunities in Singapore
Looking to invest, develop or scale AI solutions in Singapore and seeking support to do so? Connect with the Economic Development Board (opens in new tab).
Interested in applied research and industry R&D collaboration? Visit A*STAR (opens in new tab).
Building or researching AI? Explore AI Singapore's (opens in new tab) AI research, engineering and ecosystem programmes.
Be a part of Singapore’s AI ecosystem
Good ideas go further when the right people come together. Connect with AI practitioners, researchers, founders, and creators in our community at Lorong AI (opens in new tab).