Sea and Google open chapter two of their AI pact before chapter one ships

e27 - Oct 15, 2026

Google has been busy making friends in Singapore. On 7 October, its AI Futures Fund teamed up with Granite Asia to write cheques of up to US$2 million into Asian AI startups. Eight days later, the same fund has walked into Sea Limited’s office carrying something different: not a term sheet, but a key to […] The post Sea and Google open chapter two of their AI pact before chapter one ships appeared first on e27.

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