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Mapletree Investments made its stand for a better world by donating S$50,000 through 250 trees to SUTD. The joint tree planting event, Trees for a Better World: Plant a Tree with Mapletree @ SUTD, which had close to 300 participants, was graced by Mr Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information & Ministry of National Development and Ms Jessica Tan, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore.

SUTD, which was the first university to incorporate design thinking and design innovation into its entire curriculum over a decade ago, will embark on a new strategy “SUTD Leap” aimed at redesigning higher education with a greater focus on design and deep tech so as to nurture design x tech innovators and innovator leaders going forward.

Every single SUTD graduate from our undergraduate degree programmes is now recognised as being “design-trained”. This marks the first time all degrees in a university worldwide have been design accredited.

TinyLlama is a 1.1 billion parameter open-sourced small language model that has outperformed other open-source models of comparable sizes across several benchmarks. A total of three trillion tokens of datasets were pre-trained on TinyLlama within just four months.

Affectionately called the “Baby Shark Fund”, the micro-innovation programme aims to bolster the university’s strong commitment to student-led innovation, design-thinking and risk-taking.

SUTD’s new 3D bus advertisements, which are being rolled out on local buses as part of a new “School for Innovators” advertising campaign, are the most complex of all bus ads to-date. In all, it involved a total of about 600 man-hours of conceptualisation, design and production to bring the idea to life.

A security flaw which could have wiped out 5G connection for about 59% of the world’s mobile phones was recently discovered by a recent SUTD PhD graduate student.

Dreaming of making your own music like Taylor Swift only you have no musical inclination at all? Fret not. Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have developed the first-of-its-kind music-domain-knowledge-inspired Artificial Intelligence (AI) model that generates music from text prompts.

The SUTD Eco-City Research and Innovation Centre will be set up in partnership with the China-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Administrative Committee (ECAC) and the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Investment and Development Co., Ltd (SSTEC) under the auspices of the Tianjin Eco-City project.

In a world that is still trying to understand and appreciate the full capabilities of AI, Assistant Prof Soujanya Poria is trailblazing a path in the field of conversational AI, earning him a place in the prestigious list of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Under 35 Innovators for Asia-Pacific.