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Future-proofing Singapore as an AI-first nation with Search AI

Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced a focus on empowering workers with AI and transforming jobs at the 2025 National Day Rally. An example is an AI-powered OPG scanner that significantly speeds up dental X-ray analysis. This highlights AI Singapore's 100 Experiments program, which has delivered over 200 AI projects since 2018 to accelerate business adoption. AI Singapore provides resources and talent development for companies creating AI products. Elastic collaborated with AI Singapore to host a "Future-proof with AI" workshop to foster AI builders and showcase practical applications. The workshop focused on upskilling professionals in AI, emphasizing that it's about people's skills, not just technology. Participants learned about LLM prompt engineering techniques, including query decomposition and chain-of-thought prompting. This offered a preview into AI Singapore's LLM Application Developer Programme. Elastic's own Search AI capabilities were also demonstrated, focusing on generative AI applications using retrieval augmented generation. Effective AI applications require timely access to data and advanced search techniques like semantic search for efficient data retrieval.