Singtel taps Annie Liao’s Build Club to train the trainers in Singapore’s AI push

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Singtel and Build Club arm Singapore educators with 7 AI tools and trainer-ready lessons.

Under Singapore’s SkillsFuture program, adults who complete an eligible course score a free six-month AI subscription. The options are notetaker Otter.ai, Canva for making a presentation or Hailuo AI for turning a still image into video, Manus, MiniMax Code, MiniMax Audio and Akool. The Singtel AI Pass gives them three months to try all seven, before picking one to use for free for another three months. The Singapore telco puts the value at around S$600 (A$680).

Last month Build Club and Singtel ran a two-hour online session for educators to try prompts across the seven tools and check responses. The startup is now working with Singtel and the toolmakers on materials the educators can use in their own classes.

“I think what’s really exciting is that Singapore is putting these tools into more people’s hands,” Build Club founder and CEO Annie Liao said.

“But access is only the start. We want someone who isn’t technical, or doesn’t have hours to play with AI every day, to feel like they can actually do something useful with it.”

Build Club already had a Singapore community when it launched Campus, its free virtual AI school, in June. It also built an academy with Manus, which the startup says reached around 50,000 users in its first two months.

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An employee can tell Sol about their role, what they’re working on and where they could use a hand. The coach can then suggest a tool their employer has approved and walk them through a task in Slack or Microsoft Teams.

Liao started Build Club in 2023 working on AI projects with friends on weekends. Airtree and Blackbird led its $1.75 million pre-seed round a year later.

The community now has more than 70,000 members, and in September she was named Future Leader of the Year at Startup Daily’s Best in Tech Awards.

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