The 24.70 Baht Competitor
On 31 August, five million Thai citizens get free access to the world’s best AI tools. Here is what that changes for your business in Chiang Mai. At half past one in the afternoon on Wednesday 19 August, 307,425 people…
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The Verification Gap
What AI actually says about Chiang Mai businesses, why the schema fix does not work, and where local authority is really built Ask any assistant for the opening hours of a small business in Chiang Mai and the answer arrives…
Google has published the rules for AI search. Most Chiang Mai businesses have not read them.
A search for “best boutique hotel Chiang Mai” now returns a paragraph before it returns a hotel. The paragraph names two or three properties, explains in a sentence each why they are worth booking, and places small citation links beside…
Thailand’s coding pipeline just produced a gold medallist in Rome
In a competition hall in Rome during the first week of July, a 12-year-old Year 7 student from Thailand sat down at a keyboard alongside 713 other finalists from 54 countries. When the International STEM Olympiad Grand Final closed on…
Thailand Has Its Own AI Now. What Does ThaiLLM Mean for Your Business?
Thailand officially launched ThaiLLM last month, a sovereign AI foundation model built from the ground up for the Thai language, trained on over 100 billion tokens of Thai-specific data, and made freely available to the public through a developer API…
Amity’s $100M Vertical AI Round Shows Thai Businesses What Kind of AI Investment Actually Wins
When a Bangkok-founded technology company raises the largest generative AI funding round in Southeast Asian history, it’s tempting for businesses outside the capital to file it under “interesting but irrelevant” and move on. That would be a mistake. Amity, the…
Google Just Turned Maps Into an AI. Here’s What Every Chiang Mai Business Needs to Do This Week.
On March 12, 2026, Google quietly changed something fundamental about how customers find businesses. Not with a search algorithm tweak or a ranking update — but with a feature that turns Google Maps into a conversational AI assistant serving over…
Thailand Launches National AI Push — Here’s What Businesses Need to Know
The Thai government has moved decisively to put artificial intelligence within reach of small businesses, farmers, and street vendors — and the programme comes with real money attached, a fast-approaching deadline, and Chiang Mai directly in its sights. Three state…
What 81,000 People Actually Want from AI (And What It Means for Your Chiang Mai Business)
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI, recently published findings from a major study interviewing 80,508 people across 159 countries and 70 languages. They asked a simple question: what do you actually want from AI? The answers matter for anyone…
The Em Dash Ruined by ChatGPT
I always used the em dash. It was, for me, one of the most useful tools in written English — a mark that could hold a thought mid-flight, pivot without warning, or land a point with more weight than a…