[Conference Recap] Key Takeaways from AI Conference in Taipei & Singapore
Read SqueezeBits’ firsthand recap of our June 2026 conference visits in Taiwan and Singapore, where we confirmed growing demand for AI inference optimization and for generative AI infrastructure across Asian markets.
Jun 29, 2026
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Hello!
I'm Goeun Kang, Marketing Manager at SqueezeBits.
Recently, SqueezeBits has seen growing demand for AI inference optimization and generative AI infrastructure not only in the United States but across Asian markets as well. In June, we joined COMPUTEX Week in Taiwan and SuperAI in Singapore, where we met local companies in person and got a closer look at the market firsthand.
One of the biggest advantages of exhibitions is that they let you hear voices from the field up close. They give you a firsthand sense of customer interests and market direction that data and reports alone cannot fully capture.
In this post, I'd like to share what our business team experienced over two weeks in Taiwan and Singapore, along with the AI market trends we discovered along the way. 😊
Taiwan's COMPUTEX Week: From the Garage+ Program to GTC Taipei!
During Taiwan's COMPUTEX Week, we were invited to both the Garage+ program and GTC Taipei, allowing us to experience doing business in Taiwan firsthand. COMPUTEX is a long-running IT event that has been held in Taiwan since 1981. It brings together leading IT and semiconductor companies from around the world to present the latest technologies and trends. This year felt especially large in scale, with the global AI conference GTC Taipei 2026 and the startup-focused InnoVEX 2026 taking place alongside it.
By taking part in several COMPUTEX programs, SqueezeBits was able to get a direct sense of where Taiwan's AI industry is headed and meet many potential customers. In particular, we saw many companies working on topics such as AI computing and robotics, which can expand Taiwan's strengths in semiconductors and manufacturing.
The Garage+ Startup Program and Our InnoVEX Booth
SqueezeBits was selected for Garage+'s global startup program and operated a dedicated startup pavilion booth at InnoVEX. Garage+ is a leading nonprofit accelerator in Taiwan. Every year, it runs a dedicated pavilion at InnoVEX and operates various programs that connect promising global startups with Asian markets.
During the Garage+ startup program, we spoke directly with a wide range of hardware companies through networking sessions and one-on-one business meetings. Meeting companies in semiconductors, AI computing, and edge devices gave us a closer look at the strengths of Taiwan's industrial ecosystem.
Through those conversations, we also felt that interest is growing not only in hardware itself, but also in the AI software and infrastructure needed to connect that hardware to real services.
Visitors to the SqueezeBits booth were interested in the demo showing how quickly Yetter can generate outputs with generative AI. Visitors from Japan and Taiwan, in particular, tested it several times after seeing for themselves that it takes less than one second to generate a single AI image.
Another distinctive feature of this InnoVEX pavilion was that each booth operated only during specific time slots. At most events, booths are staffed throughout the entire exhibition, which leaves little time for the team to visit other booths. This time, each company had assigned booth hours, so when we were not staffing our own booth, we could look around and see other companies' technologies and services in person.
Because COMPUTEX is a hardware-focused event, participation from semiconductor and AI computing companies was especially active. This allowed us to see Taiwan's industrial ecosystem and technology trends directly on site, while also observing how different companies are using AI to expand their businesses.
GTC Taipei 2026 and the Importance of Physical AI
As mentioned earlier, COMPUTEX 2026 was held together with GTC Taipei, making it the largest edition to date. Following our participation in GTC 2026 in San Jose this March, SqueezeBits also joined GTC Taipei 2026. We were grateful to be selected as one of the Korean companies in this year's NVIDIA Startup Pavilion, giving us another opportunity to demonstrate our technology on a global stage.
In line with this year's focus on Physical AI and robotics, SqueezeBits showcased RoBoost, a platform based on our own high-speed inference engine, Yetter. RoBoost is a Physical AI data generation solution that achieves more than three times the baseline performance by optimizing NVIDIA Cosmos. Visitors to the booth showed strong interest in sample videos created with the RoBoost Agent Workflow. In conversations with company representatives interested in robotics, we also confirmed that many are thinking deeply not only about the models themselves, but about how to secure training data efficiently.
Collecting data in real-world environments requires a great deal of time and cost, so interest is naturally increasing in synthetic data technologies that can quickly generate realistic data. Through GTC Taipei, we once again felt that data generation efficiency is becoming an important challenge in the Physical AI market, alongside inference performance.
The NVIDIA Pavilion booth at GTC Taipei 2026 was also close to the Garage+ InnoVEX booth, which allowed our team members to rotate between the two booths and run them efficiently. By sharing booth updates, we could check in real time which topics were drawing more interest at each event and what kinds of company representatives were visiting. 🙂
SuperAI 2026 in Singapore: A Gathering of AI Infrastructure Companies
After Taiwan, SqueezeBits' next destination was Singapore. It was also the first market we were exploring closely. SuperAI 2026, one of the largest AI conferences in Southeast Asia, was held over two days at Marina Bay Sands in central Singapore, bringing together AI companies and industry professionals from many different countries.
When we look at the countries visiting the SqueezeBits website, Singapore accounts for a relatively large share after Korea and the United States. Since Singapore also serves as a business hub for Southeast Asia, our goals for this event went beyond operating a booth. Local market research and identifying potential customers were also important objectives.
The event felt even more global than we expected. Companies and visitors came not only from Singapore, but also from Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, and many other Asian countries. Companies from the United States and Europe were also there, creating an environment where a wide range of AI business topics were being discussed.
At this year's SuperAI, the trend around global AI infrastructure and inference was especially clear. Many companies presented technologies designed to solve the massive operating costs and infrastructure efficiency challenges that arise when delivering generative AI services to real customers. We could see that the conversation is moving beyond model performance alone, and that operating AI services efficiently is becoming a key issue.
Within this broader trend, company representatives who visited the SqueezeBits booth showed strong interest in the Yetter API service. Their questions focused on production. They asked whether Yetter can support not only image and video generation models but also LLMs, what deployment environments are available, and what level of cost savings they could expect in real service environments.
Many visitors also approached us first after seeing the inference speed comparison graph and the list of supported models displayed at the booth. In particular, companies already operating AI services and representatives from infrastructure companies showed strong interest not only in inference performance, but also in efficiency and scalability in real operating environments. This confirmed again that in the AI infrastructure market, competitive advantage now depends not just on providing models, but on how quickly and efficiently those models can be served.
One interesting point was that companies from more countries than we expected showed interest in SqueezeBits. Beyond Singapore and Malaysia, we had a variety of conversations with AI companies from India and other regions. Some visitors said they had already seen SqueezeBits' LinkedIn posts or technical content, and asked about our plans to expand in the Singapore market.
In Taiwan, we confirmed a strong interest in Physical AI and robotics. In Singapore, we saw demand for production environments and infrastructure for operating real AI services. We experienced firsthand how quickly interest in AI inference optimization and efficient infrastructure operations is growing across Asian markets. 😄
Two Weeks of Exhibitions: What We Learned
What stood out most during our time in Taiwan and Singapore was that even within the same AI market, each region has clearly different interests.
In Taiwan, interest was high in AI computing, robotics, and Physical AI, backed by the region's strengths in semiconductors and manufacturing. Naturally, many conversations centered on Physical AI data generation technologies such as RoBoost, and there was active discussion about how hardware and software can advance together.
In Singapore, by contrast, interest was more focused on the infrastructure and APIs needed to actually operate AI services. We received questions about how to reduce high inference costs and how to provide services reliably across diverse hardware environments. There was also active discussion about the real production potential of using the Yetter API.
Ultimately, what we confirmed through these events is that customers may want different things in different markets, but at the center of it all is a shared need for efficient AI inference infrastructure. Based on our own AI inference engine, Yetter, SqueezeBits is responding to these varied requirements and helping customers build AI services faster and more efficiently.
SqueezeBits will continue listening directly to customers across broader Asian markets beyond Korea and the United States, and we will keep reflecting those experiences in our products and services.
I'm grateful to our business team, who worked harder than anyone through the heat and rain. Based on this experience, we look forward to introducing SqueezeBits and Yetter to even more global customers.
If you'd like to follow more news about SqueezeBits' events in Korea and abroad, check out SqueezeBits on LinkedIn! 😊
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