‘Humans who do not hug the AI ​​will be replaced by AI’: Co -founder of Grab

Snatch co -founder and CEO Anthony Tan He is pushing all the steam for the incorporation of artificial intelligence in his commercial and personal life, since he told CNBC that those who do not accept it will eventually leave behind.

“Humans who do not hug AI in a company will be replaced by humans who embrace AI,” said Malaysia’s businessman to Christine so CNBC in Converge Live in Singapore on Tuesday. “The same will apply to companies and I really believe that if you hug it, it not only makes you superhuman, but makes your company superhuman.”

So, who co -founded in 2012 what is now the dominant transport application of Southeast Asia, said the company is taking the mission of implementing AI in several facets of working life very seriously.

This includes its educational platform for drivers, Grab Academy, which comes with an incorporated AI assistant that helps drivers to obtain more jobs with other companies and reduces waiting times for cyclists, the co -founder explained.

“The AI ​​should not be feared. AI must be accepted, helping all our workers, all our daily entrepreneurs become superhuman,” added so.

The Pregras Eventhing application not only offers travel transport but a variety of food and edible deliveries services, and financial services such as payments, loans and digital banking. He brought $ 2.8 billion in revenues in 2024, a 19% jump compared to the previous year.

Up to 40% of employers are planning Reduce your workforce due to AI, According to 2025 of the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs report. Half of the employers surveyed in the report said they plan to reorient their business in response to AI with 86% of employers who expect technology and information processing to transform their business by 2030.

So, he has his own AI coding assistant, he recommends using AI for “personal experimentation.”

“I can’t encode myself, but I use it to build my own projects, for research, to grab,” he said. “You can totally change how you spend time and how productive you can be. That is what has helped me.”

The executive director said he was anxious to expand the efficiencies he obtained when using the company in general.

“Now progressing with the company, what we did was that we said ‘Look, being superhuman is insufficient. I need to think about the more than 7,000 that we become superhuman,” said so.

This included stopping all businesses as usual in grab and making a “generative sprint of AI” for nine weeks. “People thought I was crazy, maybe I’m, but the needle really moved.”

During that time, the company created a Commercial menu assistant For your suppliers. The tool extracts information from an image of a physical menu and then automatically load it in the application.

“So think of a single mother who prepares food in a home in Yakarta. Now she has an assistant that helps her as a Sous chef, as an packaging assistant, as director of income, all in one. That helps business, but also helps to boost that vision of empowering everyday entrepreneurs at the same time,” he said so.