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In my earliest memories, celebrating the Chinese New Year at home was a very solemn and cosy affair. I especially remember my mother teaching me to hold two oranges in both hands and respectfully wish my grandmother: “Ma Ma, I wish you good health, success, and happiness and health for the family!” The weather-beaten wrinkles on my grandmother’s forehead straightened out in an instant, and she was filled with a smile. Her eyes were full of love, as warm as the spring breeze. The kindness on her face is still deeply imprinted in my memory.

Zheng Kai, an Architecture and Sustainable Design lecturer at SUTD, highlighted that as a community that is still traditional, it may be difficult to accept the presence of Western dragons in Chinese New Year decorations, but perceptions are dynamic and will evolve over time.

CNA’s The Big Spark is a new business reality show featuring 24 startups from Southeast Asia. Snap Robotics’ co-founder Saikrishna Dontu, a Research Associate at SUTD, shares how his product can transform the landscape of grasping automation through the development of technology akin to human hands.

In Singapore’s Chinatown, the dragon centrepiece crafted by SUTD students showcases a unique interpretation with four claws—three in the front and one at the rear—providing a modern twist to the traditional five claws.

A team led by Associate Professor Lu Wei, Associate Head (Research), Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, launched the AI model “TinyLlama”, an open-source small language model with 1.1 billion parameters, and pre-trained with 3 trillion tokens.