At a Chiang Mai massage business with five branches, the next group of customers often arrives before the previous group has finished checking out. The founder introduced a point-of-sale system, the software that records each sale, and abandoned it. She…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…