Leon Lim — Industry 5.0, Cognitive Maintenance & AI-Powered Machine Health

25/11/2025 27 min Episodio 46

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Episode Synopsis

Leon Lim is the CEO and Founder of Groundup.ai, a Singapore-based startup helping industrial companies prevent unplanned downtime using IoT and AI. With a decade in tech and AI, he has built and exited two ventures and once managed over 3,000 servers in one of Singapore's first large-scale blockchain data centers. An NUS alumnus, he mentors startups and invests in early-stage ventures. His background in music sparked his interest in audio analytics, which now drives Groundup.ai’s approach to machine anomaly detection.

Leon Lim
LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/sgleonlim

Flor Laorga
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Website: https://aifn.co/flor

AI Frontier Network
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ai-frontier-network

OUTLINE
00:00 Start
00:50 From Musician to Tech Entrepreneur
01:47 Founding Groundup.ai
03:44 Transitioning From Crypto to Industrial AI
05:32 What Is Cognitive Maintenance?
07:35 Expansion Across Southeast Asia and the Middle East
10:43 Launching the World’s First Agentic Maintenance AI
12:13 Keeping Humans in the Loop
13:07 Redefining Human Work in the AI Era
13:35 Should AI Pay Taxes?
15:13 The Robot Economy and Human Purpose
16:46 Living in a Technological Future
22:38 Industry 5.0 and the End of Manual Labor
25:04 Advice for Future AI Founders

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