Grab

Created by Simon Sharwood //

Sun 15 Jan 2023

Singapore based superapp and Uber slayer

When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight

Asia In Brief PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company

Software20 Jan 2025 | 5

Staff can't code? No prob. Singapore superapp's LLM whips up apps for them

NP-hard to NP at all

AI + ML06 Nov 2024 | 5

Data harvesting superapp admits it struggled to wield data – until it built an LLM

Engineers at Grab don't need to ask each other questions any more

AI + ML27 Sep 2024 | 9

Open source AI helped China catch up to the world, researchers reckon

APAC in brief Plus: Grab drops cab merger, Kakao founder goes to the clink, Alibaba denies Jack Ma cronyism, and more

AI + ML29 Jul 2024 | 9

UK cyber-boss slams China's bug-hoarding laws

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more

Security15 Jul 2024 | 1

China's top rideshare boss vacates her role

ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Grab's fintech profits surges; TSMC exec gets ASML sticker shock; US and China talk about AI, and more.

Software20 May 2024 | 2

BROADER TOPICS

Grab shrank its superapp by a quarter in order to survive

Large APKs and disk footprints spell doom in a developing market

Software05 Mar 2024 | 12

Gen AI and cloud optimization help Asian SuperApp Grab turn a profit

Headcount down 18 percent as content creation time shrinks from 99 hours to 90 minutes

Off-Prem26 Feb 2024 | 3

India weighs 18 bids to build subsidized local chip factories

APAC in Brief PLUS: Rideshare mega-merger mooted; France raids Huawei; Mongolia plans first satellite

Off-Prem12 Feb 2024 | 1

Singaporean superapp Grab delivers massive job cuts with after hours email

‘We thought you'd like some terrible news in the comfort of your own home’ was the gist of it

Software21 Jun 2023 | 7

China's homegrown airliner makes first paid-for flight

Asia in Brief PLUS: Grab founder quits operational role; Meta's fiber-bot crawls to Japan; ChatGPT enhances Taiwan's status

Systems28 May 2023 | 11

Asia's top rideshare outfit, Grab, is late paying fines for running late

Took out Uber and promised to play nice, but regulator alleges years of evasion

Legal18 May 2023 | 3

China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency

Asia In Brief Plus: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more

Science06 Mar 2023 | 21

AWS adds Superapp Grab's Asia-centric maps to its cloudy location service

Asia In Brief PLUS ServiceNow makes Japan a discrete region; Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hub; US snipes at Korean network policy; and more

Software16 Jan 2023 | 1

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