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The most surprising tech champions of 2024
From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.
India’s homegrown EV industry, a Chinese video game that became a soft power success, and a U.S.-based walkie-talkie app that proved unexpectedly popular in Kenya are some of Rest of World ’s most surprising winners in global tech in 2024. When they set up NoMindBhutan in 2023, co-founders Ugyen Dendup and Jamphel Yigzin Samdrup were freshmen in the AI Development and Data Science program at the Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology, part of the Royal University of Bhutan. Despite its prominent clientele, NoMindBhutan is currently restricted by the country’s lack of access to international payment platforms and cloud servers, but remains “committed to advancing AI in Bhutan and overcoming the barriers that stand in our way,” Dendup told Rest of World.
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