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NVIDIA and its partners have showcased groundbreaking AI advancements across Southeast Asia at AI Day Singapore, further solidifying the region's position as a leader in AI research and development. The event highlighted the significant progress made in AI security, economic development, and sovereign AI, demonstrating the region's commitment to advancing its AI capabilities.
NVIDIA and its partners showcased AI advancements across Southeast Asia at the AI Day Singapore event.The event highlighted four key areas of AI research and development: government operations, citizen services, critical infrastructure, and startup support.Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency used NVIDIA Nemotron models to advance public safety AI.Other countries in the region, such as Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand, also made progress in AI development and deployment.NVIDIA's open models, datasets, and libraries are being adopted by leading enterprises and research organizations across Southeast Asia.Enterprises in Singapore are using NVIDIA Nemotron for various use cases, including drug discovery and development.Sea Limited, a global technology company, recently adopted the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, marking a significant milestone in the region's AI adoption journey.
Southeast Asia, a region of immense economic and demographic growth, has long been recognized as a hub for artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. At the AI Day Singapore, held recently at the Raffles City Convention Centre, NVIDIA and its partners showcased a plethora of AI advancements across the Southeast Asia region, further solidifying the region's position as a leader in AI research and development.
The event, which took place on September 22-23, 2026, provided attendees with opportunities to explore hands-on training, expert-led sessions, and advanced tools designed to accelerate their work in AI and high-performance computing. At the heart of this event were the breakthrough AI advancements showcased by NVIDIA and its partners, which spanned four key areas: enhancing government operations and service delivery, developing accessible AI-powered citizen services, strengthening critical infrastructure and public safety, and supporting startups, developers, and researchers to strengthen national AI capabilities and innovation in each country.
One of the most significant announcements came from Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency, which embarked on research using the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni models to advance AI for public safety. The Nemotron Super model has the potential to support the agency's complex reasoning and agentic workflows, while the Omni model's unified vision, audio, and language capabilities could help HTX develop multimodal applications grounded in real-world operational data. Together, these models could strengthen HTX's ability to deploy secure, locally controlled AI across Singapore's Home Team.
NCS, another partner, advanced agentic AI adoption across enterprises and the public sector, utilizing the Nemotron models and the NVIDIA Blueprint for video search and summarization (VSS). NCS also advanced physical AI for practical humanoid robotics applications, addressing security, responsiveness, and data governance requirements. Meanwhile, ST Engineering used NVIDIA NeMo tools and NVIDIA cuOpt software to develop its AI Studio platform and deploy agentic AI solutions across its businesses, such as Marine MRO.
Beyond Singapore, similar work was underway across the region. Malaysia's YTL AI Labs fine-tuned Nemotron models for enterprise and citizen services, while Viettel AI worked on fine-tuning Nemotron 3 Super for Vietnamese-language applications. In Thailand, the Big Data Institute and iApp Technology, as members of the ThaiLLM Collaboration, explored Nemotron as a foundation model. With an initial focus on legal applications, iApp Technology adapted Nemotron 3 Nano by fine-tuning OpenThai 2.0 Legal with Thai-language legal data using the NVIDIA NeMo framework. The model was released as open source for the Thai developer community and served as the engine for Thanoy, the company's legal-assistant chatbot, which already served approximately 43,000 users.
In Brunei, Antrique built an AI innovation platform to boost productivity across the nation's food sector. Across the region, NVIDIA Cosmos open world models and the NVIDIA VSS Blueprint advanced smart city solution development. Malaysia's ITMAX used Cosmos with VSS to improve city traffic operations, while Thailand's AS-TECH applied the same stack to improve passenger flow in airports.
The adoption of NVIDIA Nemotron open models, datasets, and libraries by leading enterprises, technology providers, and research organizations across Southeast Asia has accelerated the development of region-specialized AI models and applications. NVIDIA Nemotron provides a foundation for regional AI ecosystems, allowing organizations to customize, control, and own models that address their specific requirements. Nematron also offers persona datasets that provide locally relevant synthetic data reflecting the region's populations, languages, and workforces.
Enterprises in Singapore are adopting NVIDIA Nemotron for various use cases, including AI Singapore's expansion of its SEA-LION model family to include the NVIDIA Nemotron open models and NVIDIA NeMo tools. Hummingbird Bioscience, together with LynxKite, is building an explainable Toxicity Knowledge Graph powered by Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Retriever with in silico simulations. This collaboration aims to integrate complex public and proprietary data across diverse third-party file formats, creating a comprehensive, unified foundation for robust analysis and reasoning that helps de-risk and accelerate drug discovery and development.
Furthermore, Bitdeer AI co-hosted the Open Models AI Codefest with NVIDIA, providing the GPU cloud infrastructure that enabled developers across the region to use NVIDIA Nemotron open models, datasets, and training recipes to accelerate localized applications across critical sectors, including healthcare. In Vietnam, Viettel AI fine-tuned Nemotron 3 Super for the Vietnamese language and agentic applications. The model achieved the highest ranking on both the VMLU benchmark and the company's in-house product benchmark and is set to be adopted in Legal AI — an agent harness that will serve both internal Viettel Group employees and external customers.
The recent adoption of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform by Sea Limited, a global technology company founded in Singapore, marks a significant milestone in the region's AI adoption journey. Sea Limited is the first enterprise in the ASEAN region to adopt the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, further strengthening the company's AI capabilities to better serve and create meaningful economic opportunities for millions of consumers and small businesses across Southeast Asia. With NVIDIA Vera Rubin, Sea will build on its existing AI efforts, developing and deploying AI models and intelligent agents at greater scale to serve the evolving needs of its communities.
As the region continues to advance its AI capabilities, it is essential to address the engineering problems that arise at every layer of the agent stack. This requires a comprehensive approach that encompasses AI security, economic development, and sovereign AI. The recent event at AI Day Singapore showcased the significant progress made in these areas, solidifying Southeast Asia's position as a leader in AI research and development.
In conclusion, the recent AI Day Singapore event showcased the groundbreaking AI advancements across Southeast Asia, further solidifying the region's position as a leader in AI research and development. NVIDIA and its partners showcased a plethora of AI advancements across four key areas, including enhancing government operations and service delivery, developing accessible AI-powered citizen services, strengthening critical infrastructure and public safety, and supporting startups, developers, and researchers to strengthen national AI capabilities and innovation in each country.
Related Information:
https://www.digitaleventhorizon.com/articles/NVIDIA-and-Partners-Showcase-Groundbreaking-AI-Advancements-Across-Southeast-Asia-at-AI-Day-Singapore-deh.shtml
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-day-singapore/
https://www.nvidia.com/en-sg/ai-days/
Published: Tue Sep 22 23:39:57 2026 by llama3.2 3B Q4_K_M
