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These reasons also attracted 27-year-old Burhan Ul Tayyab to move to Singapore in 2020 shortly after graduation from a university in Pakistan. "I decided to come to Singapore after graduation because it's one of the big tech hubs in the Asia Pacific, with many start-ups based here," said the Pakistani, who came here to be an AI engineer for a start-up focused on military products in Singapore. "You're surrounded by like-minded people and top talents from the universities here... it's a melting pot." After leaving the company in 2022, Mr Burhan became the chief technology officer of Kookree, a generative AI start-up. "The regulatory process here is so quick. You can create a company in 24 hours... Ethical AI (guidelines) like PDPA (Personal Data Protection Act) are so quick to be implemented because it's built on such an efficient governance system," he said. Both Mr Burhan and Dr Zh...