Deep Knowledge Group

20/11/2025

Via Hong Kong Wen Wei Po reporter Cen Jianle:

"Deep Knowledge Group and the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) today officially released the fourth edition of the Global Artificial Intelligence Competitiveness Index Report. The FSDC, as a formal observer of the project, provided support for the report's compilation.

The FSDC points out that as artificial intelligence gradually becomes a core driver of global economic transformation, how to enhance national and regional competitiveness and strengthen governance has become a crucial strategic issue facing policymakers, businesses, and research institutions. The FSDC notes that the report analyzes policies and regulations in at least 25 regions, revealing differences between governance effectiveness and institutional capabilities. The results show that the EU is leading in AI regulation, while the US and China demonstrate outstanding performance in the practical application of AI.

Looking ahead, FSDC Executive Director King Au stated today that the national "15th Five-Year Plan" indicates a need to strengthen the integration of AI with industrial development, cultural construction, people's livelihood, and social governance, seizing the high ground in AI industry applications and comprehensively empowering all sectors. Therefore, the mainland's AI industry will have more room for development. Hong Kong, on the other hand, will issue a policy declaration on the responsible application of AI in the financial market in October 2024. Therefore, he stated that Hong Kong, as an international financial center and an international innovation and technology center, can play the role of a "super connector" and contribute to the development of the artificial intelligence industry in mainland China and overseas."

"（香港文汇报记者 岑健乐）Deep Knowledge Group与香港金融发展局（金发局）今日正式发布《全球人工智能竞争力指数报告》第四版。金发局作为该项目的正式观察员，对报告的编制提供了支持

金发局指出，随着人工智能逐渐成为推动全球经济转型的核心动力，如何提升国家和区域的竞争力、加强治理，成为政策制定者、企业及研究机构共同面对的重要策略课题。金发局指出，报告对至少25个地区的政策与法规进行分析，揭示治理效果与制度能力之间的差异。结果发现，欧盟在人工智能监管方面处于领先地位，至于美国和中国则在人工智能的应用实践中拥有卓越表现。

展望未来，金发局行政总监区景麟今日表示，国家“十五五”规划表明要加强人工智能同产业发展、文化建设、民生保障、社会治理相结合，抢佔人工智能产业应用制高点，全方位赋能千行百业，因此内地人工智能产业将有更多发展空间。至于香港则于2024年10月发表有关在金融市场负责任地应用人工智能的政策宣言。因此，他表示香港作为国际金融中心与国际创科中心，将可以发挥其“超级联繫人”的角色，为内地与海外人工智能产业发展作出贡献。"

Deep Knowledge Group与香港金融发展局（金发局）今日正式发布《全球人工智能竞争力指数报告》第四版。金发局作为该项目的正式观察员，对报告的编制提供了支持。

20/11/2025

China has cemented its position as a global leader in artificial intelligence, while Hong Kong is carving out a niche as a specialised innovation hub, underpinned by the country's strong governance and regulatory competitiveness, according to a global index. Technology breakthroughs such as the low-...

19/11/2025

South China Morning Post takes an interest in the newly launched Global AI Competitiveness Index Part 4, hosted by Deep Knowledge Group (DKG) with Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) participating as Report Observer, and the AI Industry Ecosystem in Hong Kong report and platform, conducted by DKG in cooperation with FSDC as Observer and Artificial Intelligence Association of Hong Kong as Supporting Organization.

Aileen Chuang and Danielle Popov's article highlights how China’s state-led model of AI — combining national strategy, central coordination and industrial policy — is proving highly effective in accelerating adoption and influence, while Hong Kong is carving out a more focused role: leveraging its strengths in finance, cross-border connectivity and regulatory alignment to build a niche innovation ecosystem.

This dynamic underscores how governance model, institutional coordination and national strategy are increasingly shaping who leads in AI — not just investment or talent alone.

Access the Global AI Competitiveness Index Part 4 here: https://www.dkv.global/ai-index/part4

Access the AI Industry Ecosystem in Hong Kong report and platform here: https://www.hk-ecosystem.tech/ai

Read the full coverage here: https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3333433/china-cements-global-ai-leadership-hong-kong-builds-niche-innovation-hub

Beijing’s state-led strategy is among governance models shaping AI competitiveness worldwide, think tank Deep Knowledge Group says.

06/10/2025

Qatar is shifting from “steel and concrete” to “sensing and cognition” — putting wellness and longevity into the operating system of the city itself.

In a recent article by Joel Johnson with The Peninsula featuring extensive commentary from Deep Knowledge Group General Partner Dmitry Kaminskiy, we see how Msheireb, Lusail and national smart-city programs are connecting environmental sensors, building systems and personal health data to create truly adaptive, biomarker-aware urban environments.

This is urban design as public health infrastructure — not gadgets, but structural resilience and measurable wellbeing.

Key Take-Aways:

🏙️ From buildings to biology — Qatar is moving beyond smart buildings to cities that sense and adapt to human health and vitality.

🌬️ Infrastructure = health — District cooling, ambient air-quality monitoring and advanced HVAC are being treated as direct drivers of sleep quality and long-term wellbeing.

🛰️ Sensing + cognition — networks of sensors feeding building-management systems so urban spaces can respond in real time.

🧬 Biomarker-aware environments — Qatar is exploring links between wearable/genomic data and building systems for personalized microclimates — a step toward environments that adjust to a person’s biology.

🏛️ Place-based exemplars — Leading Qatar real estate developer Msheireb Properties' Downtown Doha and Qatari Diar Owners ملاك الديار القطريه's Lusail City mega-project are practical testbeds: sensorised smart heritage, automated waste, district cooling and other infrastructure built-in rather than retrofitted.

🔬 Science-driven urban design — Environmental markers (air, temp, humidity, noise, light) are being treated as measurable inputs that map to physiological and psychological states.

🤝 Policy + tech alignment — Success depends on aligning regulation, data governance and public-private systems so health outcomes—not just metrics—drive investment and planning.

🚀 A model for future cities — Embedding longevity into city infrastructure reframes urban development as preventative healthcare at scale — an investor and policy opportunity with measurable returns.

30/09/2025

Deep Knowledge Group General Partner Dmitry Kaminskiy's latest article in Middle East Health Magazine explores why the next Silicon Valley may be built around AgeTech, and why the Gulf is poised to become the first region to build it.

Key Take-Aways:

- 💰 The longevity economy is already enormous — estimated at $26.5T in 2022 and projected to reach $33T by 2026.

- 🔬 The sector is shifting from “managing aging” to extending healthspan and turning longevity into productivity and growth.

- 🌍 MENA (the Gulf) is emerging as a serious contender to lead AgeTech — building future-ready longevity infrastructure from the ground up.

- 📈 Demographic shift: in 2025 nearly 1 in 5 people in the GCC will be 50+ (up from 1 in 7 in 2020); median age projected 32 → 51 by 2100.

- ⚕️ Saudi Vision 2030 ties life expectancy to national competitiveness (life expectancy rose from 74 in 2016 to 78.8 in 2024; target 80 by 2030).

- 🧬 UAE is fast-moving in precision health: United Arab Emirates University Genomics Lab, 1,000+ healthtech startups, and an Illumina MoU to accelerate genomics.

- 🩺 Four AgeTech pillars to watch: Precision & Preventive Healthcare; Built Environments beyond hospitals; Age-inclusive Workforce & Learning; Finance & Insurance Innovation.

- 🏙️ Urban & real-estate innovation matter — projects like NEOM are embedding longevity into city design (smart homes, mobility, intergenerational living).

- 👥 Policy shifts (e.g., raising retirement age) + public–private alignment are unlocking markets for lifelong learning and late-career work platforms. ⚖️

The Gulf’s potential comes from combining capital, talent, infrastructure and visionary regulation — the same conditions that created Silicon Valley, now for AgeTech.

15/09/2025

In the latest (August-September 2025) issue of The AI Times, Deep Knowledge Group General Partner Dmitry Kaminskiy highlights why both the UAE and Saudi Arabia's recent ranking among the top 20 nations for AI talent density by the recent Global AI Competitiveness Index matters more than raw headcount.

Talent density accelerates research velocity, venture formation, and enterprise adoption. Both countries now outpace several G20 peers (including Italy and Russia) on this metric, reflecting years of coordinated investment in universities and institutes, national AI strategies, and pro-talent policies.

This momentum, anchored by research ecosystems and sovereign capital, positions the Gulf as a serious node in the global AI network, with growing spillovers into deep-tech, healthcare, finance, and smart-city applications.

The next leg of the journey is clear: continue scaling compute, open data access, and cross-border collaboration to compound that talent advantage.

Read the full analysis in the latest issue of The AI Times here: https://gecnewswire.com/the-ai-times-aug-sept-2025/

11/08/2025

Dubai’s next chapter isn’t just smart—it’s sentient. In his new piece in Construction Week Magazine, Dmitry Kaminskiy envisions 2040 Dubai as a living system where wellness is infrastructure, mobility is fluid, and governance fuses AI, biotech, materials science, and neuroscience. From tokenized real estate to self-healing buildings and emotion-aware hospitality, the city becomes an adaptable organism. With Dubai Municipality’s AI Roadmap (2024) already in motion—spanning waste, agriculture, inspections, and beach safety—the blueprint is clear: build cities that sense, respond, heal and care.

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🧠🤖 From smart to sentient: 2040 Dubai is envisioned as a learning organism—cities that sense, respond, and adapt in real time.

🌿 Wellness as infrastructure: Vertical forests; bio-adaptive lighting; AI air-filtration walls; homes that auto-tune scent, light, and sound for mental health.

🏥💡 Health in the home: On-demand diagnostics and circadian lighting shift “healthcare” from hospitals to architecture.

🏨🧘 Tourism redefined: Hotels as wellness sanctuaries—neuro-enhancement pods, circadian-sync stays, emotion-aware environments.

🚁🚇 Fluid mobility: Autonomous aerial taxis above; silent smart pods below; all connected to a city “neural network.”

🛰️🌍 AI for city operations: Remote sensing + AI for climate risks, energy optimization, and responsive policymaking.

🧬🧪 Tech convergence: AI x biotech x materials science x neuroscience power adaptive districts and human-centric design.

🧱🧩 Self-healing & 3D-printed buildings: Structures that adapt to climate in real time instead of being rebuilt.

🔗🏠 Tokenized real estate: Fractional, blockchain-enabled ownership expands access for global digital citizens.

🏖️🛟 Public safety by design: Smart beach systems monitor drowning risk, crowding, and visitor flows in real time.

🗺️⚖️ Ethical, human-centric governance: Tech must remain inclusive and wellbeing-first as adoption accelerates.

🗓️🏗️ Policy momentum: Dubai Municipality’s AI Roadmap (2024) under the Universal Blueprint for AI targets waste/sewerage efficiency, agri-robotics, drone inspections, and more.

Read the full article here: https://www.constructionweekonline.com/news/dubai-urban-evolution-2040

"Dubai has never been afraid of the future, it has successfully been building skyward, seaward, and even sandward," says Dmitry on Dubai's urban evolution

04/08/2025

"The International Finance Forum's Global AI Competitiveness Index Report Part III: Analyzing AI Competitiveness from the Human Capital Perspective, produced in collaboration with Deep Knowledge Group (DKG), offers the clearest picture to date of where the world’s artificial‑intelligence brain‑power is—and, just as critically, where it is not.

After analysing more than 50 000 anonymised professional profiles and dozens of university‑pipeline and mobility datasets, the authors place the present global pool of AI practitioners at about three million. Yet the talent map is highly lopsided: five countries—the U.S., Mainland China, India, the U.K. and Canada—together employ 70 % of that total. Two of them, the U.S. and China, account for 57 %.

Density figures amplify the same story. The report measures the number of AI specialists for every million inhabitants across the G‑20 and discovers a fifty‑fold gap. Singapore tops the table at more than 7 500 per million; Brazil sits at fewer than 70. South Korea leads the G‑20 proper with 1 059 per million, while several large economies hover below 200. This disparity is not merely academic; AI talent operates as the raw fuel of national competitiveness, and nations that fail to cultivate or attract it will experience slower productivity growth, less economic stability, reduced capacity for technological sovereignty and waning geopolitical influence.

The consequences are already visible in labour‑market strain. By matching vacancy postings with available head‑count, the index finds that eight of the top‑20 economies suffer unfilled‑position ratios above 25 %. Employers in those markets are now importing specialists, automating less‑skilled tasks or postponing projects—outcomes that ultimately widen the performance gap between talent‑rich and talent‑poor nations."

Read more here: https://fox40.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/833651210/global-ai-workforce-hits-3-million-yet-70-reside-in-just-five-nations-and-g%e2%80%9120-ai-talent-density-differs-50%e2%80%91fold/

01/08/2025

The International Finance Forum's Global AI Competitiveness Index Report Part III: Analyzing AI Competitiveness from the Human Capital Perspective, produced in collaboration with Deep Knowledge Group (DKG), offers the clearest picture to date of where the world’s artificial‑intelligence brain‑power is—and, just as critically, where it is not.

After analysing more than 50 000 anonymised professional profiles and dozens of university‑pipeline and mobility datasets, the authors place the present global pool of AI practitioners at about three million. Yet the talent map is highly lopsided: five countries—the U.S., Mainland China, India, the U.K. and Canada—together employ 70 % of that total. Two of them, the U.S. and China, account for 57 %.

Density figures amplify the same story. The report measures the number of AI specialists for every million inhabitants across the G‑20 and discovers a fifty‑fold gap. Singapore tops the table at more than 7 500 per million; Brazil sits at fewer than 70. South Korea leads the G‑20 proper with 1 059 per million, while several large economies hover below 200.

This disparity is not merely academic; AI talent operates as the raw fuel of national competitiveness, and nations that fail to cultivate or attract it will experience slower productivity growth, less economic stability, reduced capacity for technological sovereignty and waning geopolitical influence.

https://link.iff.org.cn/AIR3EN New IFF–DKG report shows the U.S and China alone account for 57 % of specialists, while eight of the top‑20 economies already report vacancy rates above 25 %. A nation’s AI talent is its new strategic reserve. Those that secure it now will multiply gains in econo...

31/07/2025

https://www.benzinga.com/content/46651335/global-ai-workforce-hits-3-million-yet-70-reside-in-just-five-nations-and-g-20-ai-talent-density-dif

https://link.iff.org.cn/AIR3EN New IFF–DKG report shows the U.S and China alone account for 57 % of specialists, while eight of the top‑20 economies already report vacancy rates above 25 %. A nation's AI talent is its