At AI Day Singapore, NVIDIA and Partners Showcase AI Advancements Across Southeast Asia
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NVIDIA is showing off AI work in Singapore and across Southeast Asia. The big theme: local models, local control, and a push from pilots into real deployments.
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At NVIDIA AI Day Singapore, held Sept. 22-23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, the company and its partners are putting regional AI projects on display. The pitch is straightforward: move faster, build locally, and get more than demoware out the door. That runs from public-sector systems to enterprise tools, and from city traffic to drug discovery.
A big part of NVIDIA’s message is about governments. Across Southeast Asia, it says agencies are trying to turn AI pilots into production systems that can handle local languages, local priorities and trusted control. Singapore’s HTX is working with NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni for public-safety research, while NCS is using Nemotron models and the NVIDIA Blueprint for video search and summarization. ST Engineering is also building on NVIDIA NeMo tools and cuOpt software for its AI Studio platform and agentic AI work.
The regional list is long, and that seems to be the point. YTL AI Labs in Malaysia is fine-tuning Nemotron for enterprise and citizen services. Viettel AI is doing similar work for Vietnamese-language applications. In Thailand, the Big Data Institute and iApp Technology are exploring Nemotron through the ThaiLLM Collaboration, and iApp has adapted Nemotron 3 Nano for Thai legal data. That effort already powers Thanoy, a legal-assistant chatbot with about 43,000 users.
NVIDIA is also leaning hard into the idea of open models as a local-control play. In Singapore, AI Singapore is expanding SEA-LION with Nemotron open models and NeMo tools, while Hummingbird Bioscience and LynxKite are using Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Retriever for an explainable toxicity knowledge graph. Elsewhere, Bitdeer AI co-hosted an Open Models AI Codefest with NVIDIA, and Viettel AI says its Nemotron 3 Super work has hit the top spot on both the VMLU benchmark and its own internal benchmark.
Then there’s Sea, which NVIDIA says is the first enterprise in ASEAN to adopt the Vera Rubin platform. Sea is already using AI across Garena, Monee and Shopee, and now wants more scale for models and intelligent agents. That matters because it turns this from a regional showcase into a very practical bet: the companies that already have users, sellers, players and borrowers are the ones being handed the next layer of compute.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right kind of AI story: not grand talk, just countries and companies trying to own the models they depend on. Open systems win the boring fights — language, control, adaptation, real users — while closed demos usually peak on stage. The region doesn’t need another AI poster; it needs tools it can actually keep.
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