Agnes AI Hits 200K Daily Users in Six Months Across Southeast Asia
Singapore's Agnes AI hits 200K daily users in 6 months with locally-built LLM supporting regional languages. How SEA-focused AI tools challenge global platforms.
Singapore-based Agnes AI has reached 200,000 daily active users within six months of its July 2025 launch, ranking among the top 10 productivity apps in Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The platform now serves approximately 3 million registered users, with half of its user base originating from Southeast Asia.
Unified Workspace Consolidates Multiple Tools
Agnes AI positions itself as an all-in-one assistant that combines search, research, slide creation, design tools, spreadsheets, group chat, and news features in a single interface. The platform enables users to move from research to presentation without switching between different applications, addressing a key productivity challenge for professionals managing multiple software subscriptions.
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The company developed its own eight-billion-parameter language model entirely in-house in Singapore, which it has open-sourced as Agnes-SeaLLM-8B on Hugging Face. The model supports Southeast Asian languages including Bahasa Indonesia and Vietnamese, alongside Chinese and English, for cross-cultural applications. Agnes AI claims the model achieves 20% higher reasoning accuracy than comparable models and outperforms several 20-billion-parameter models across benchmarks.
A proprietary CodeAgents system reduces token costs by 40%, making the platform more cost-efficient for small and medium enterprises in price-sensitive Southeast Asian markets.
Real-Time Collaboration Features Drive Adoption
In December 2025, Agnes AI partnered with Agora to launch real-time AI group chat and multi-agent collaboration capabilities. The integration enables low-latency collaboration across Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, where marketing teams manage campaigns across more than 20 dialects.
In January 2026, the company introduced CoVibe AI Filters, blending social creativity tools with productivity features. The addition addresses Southeast Asia's demand for visually driven marketing content, particularly among younger users who prefer AI-powered interactive content.
Regional Focus Drives Competitive Positioning
Founded by Bruce, a Raffles Institution alumnus pursuing an AI PhD at the National University of Singapore with prior experience at Microsoft and LinkedIn, Agnes AI emphasizes locally controllable AI development. The approach addresses Southeast Asia's linguistic and cultural context while responding to the region's growing emphasis on domestic AI supply chains.
The company has assembled talent from NUS, Nanyang Technological University, MIT, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. Agnes AI achieved a $100 million valuation within months of launch and is closing a funding round worth tens of millions of dollars to support model scaling and international expansion into Latin America.
The platform's growth occurs as Southeast Asia's smartphone penetration reaches 78%, with 60% of the population under age 35. This mobile-first demographic drives demand for unified workspaces that consolidate multiple tools into single platforms accessible from smartphones.
Agnes AI is preparing to train a next-generation, larger-scale model through university collaborations. The company projects reaching 1 million daily active users by the first quarter of 2026.
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