Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, May 20th.

Today on Forbes, meet the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia class of 2025.

Last week, Forbes released the 10th edition of our Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list,

putting the spotlight on a new wave of entrepreneurs and innovators with a bold vision

for the future, one that's largely powered by artificial intelligence.

From automating mundane tasks such as transcribing client calls to providing sophisticated

analytics for hedge fund managers and speeding up the discovery of new chemical materials,

AI is reshaping how startups innovate. More than a third of those on our list use AI in some way,

a trend that prompted us to create a new AI category. Take for example Jin Kim, who is the 28-year-old

co-founder of Soul-based Link Alpha. In May last year,

Kim teamed up with three other co-founders, two of whom are 30 under 30 alumni, to deliver

tech-driven insights to investors, with a focus on hedge fund managers. Their subscription-based

platform uses AI to speed up research into more than 60,000

companies in over 80 markets in 20 languages, it says, trawling through large volumes of data,

such as securities filings, financial reports, and earnings call transcripts, as well as text files,

PDFs, and social media.

Link Alpha raised $6.6 million in seed funding last year from investors such as Korea-based VC firms Attenham, Intervest, KakaVentures, and Smilegate Investment.

For founders navigating the turbulent waters of fundraising, AI has emerged as a strategic partner

that helps refine their value propositions to investors looking to back the potential of this

cutting-edge technology.

Co-founded by 24-year-old Wang Guan in 2024, Singapore-based Sapient Intelligence is trying to create

artificial general intelligence,

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