“Over the next five years, I expect consumers as well as enterprises, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, to have their own domain-specific models,” said Yang, who serves as the university’s associate dean at the Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, as well as the executive director at the PolyU Academy for AI.

She said InfiX.ai, which had a US$250 million valuation after its initial funding round, had a mission to build “the last mile of generative AI”, making AI applications accessible to everyone.

Among its various endeavours, InfiX.ai developed methods to create highly capable AI systems that required minimal computational resources, “making advanced AI accessible to organisations of all sizes through techniques like FP8 precision training, edge AI deployment and privacy-preserving solutions”, according to the company.