AI cybersecurity leader CyCraft announced a strategic partnership with APMIC, a provider of model-as-a-service solutions, to launch the industry's first AI model designed specifically for defense: XecGuard. Paired with a model security evaluation service, this initiative leverages a 3-billion (3B) parameter open-source model developed by APMIC and the Twinkle AI community.

South Korean internet giant Naver has launched HyperCLOVA X THINK, a large language model that matches OpenAI's GPT-4.1 performance while excelling in Korean-language tasks, advancing the country's push for AI sovereignty.

Polymer materials supplier Covestro is strengthening its cast polyurethane elastomer business in Taiwan, eyeing rising demand from automated equipment, smart logistics, offshore wind power, waterproofing for construction and infrastructure, and pulp and paper industries.

Taiwan's telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has launched the Hami Cam AI smart camera, targeting the growing demand for companionship and remote care amid social changes such as an aging population and increased pet ownership. The new device aims to strengthen CHT's position in the competitive smart home camera market.

According to the Business Standard, BW Business World, and EE Herald, MiPhi Semiconductors, a joint venture between India's Micromax Informatics and Taiwan's Phison Technology, has announced the design and manufacture of enterprise-grade SSDs in India, making MiPhi the first indigenous brand to produce such high-performance data storage solutions in the country.

The AI programming sector is experiencing a surge in venture capital investment as startups like Anysphere and Windsurf command multibillion-dollar valuations despite being unprofitable. Simultaneously, technology giants Microsoft and Alphabet Inc. are intensifying competition by launching their own AI coding tools and services.

Strong demand for high performance computing (HPC) and generative AI (GenAI) has helped drive a 75% year-over-year revenue increase in the IC sector across Taiwan's science parks in April 2025, leading all industrial categories in the parks, according to data from the Science Park Bureaus under the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). Science and Technology Minister and Minister without Portfolio Cheng-wen Wu believes Taiwan should leverage its semiconductor and AI expertise through tight integration with the biomedical industry, to foster practical applications of AI in biotech and medicine.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has recently warned multiple times that the Trump administration may further tighten US export controls, inadvertently allowing Chinese domestic AI chips, such as those from Huawei, to fully capture the China market. AI chips can be divided into training and inference segments, with Nvidia historically dominating the high-barrier AI training chip sector in China.

In Taiwan's rapidly expanding green energy market, driven by the global energy transition and power grid modernization, Billion Electric is making a strategic shift from its traditional power supply roots to become a major player in renewable energy and storage. During its June 30, 2025 earnings call, the company revealed it had secured a 262 MWh operations and maintenance (O&M) contract and expects to add two more project sites in the third quarter of 2025. Billion Electric also announced plans to launch several new products in the second half of 2025, signaling sustained momentum for growth ahead.

As Vietnam prepares to roll out its carbon trading pilot program in 2025, TPIsoftware, a Taiwan-based technology firm, announced a strategic partnership with Ho Team Construction, the largest Taiwanese construction contractor operating in Vietnam. The collaboration will see Ho Team become the country's first construction company to adopt an AI-powered carbon inventory system, laying the groundwork for Vietnam's full-scale carbon trading regime anticipated in 2029.