Southeast Asia’s US$1T digital dream slips five years, and AI is the new reason to keep believing

Every October, Google, Temasek and Bain Company gather Southeast Asia’s tech crowd around one seductive number. This year it is US$368 billion, the gross merchandise value (GMV) the region’s digital economy is projected to reach in 2026, up 17 per cent year-on-year. The longer-range promise is more than US$1 trillion by 2035. Long-time readers [] The post Southeast Asias US$1T digital dream slips five years, and AI is the new reason to keep believing appeared first on e27 .