At AI Day Singapore, NVIDIA and Partners Showcase AI Advancements Across Southeast Asia
NVIDIA and Southeast Asian partners showcased Nemotron, Cosmos, and public-sector AI at AI Day Singapore.
At AI Day Singapore on September 22-23, NVIDIA and regional partners described production use of Nemotron open models, NeMo tools, Cosmos world models, and the video search and summarization blueprint. Singapore's HTX is researching Nemotron 3 Super and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni for public safety, while NCS and ST Engineering are building agentic systems. YTL AI Labs and Viettel AI are fine-tuning Nemotron, and Thailand's iApp released a Thai legal adaptation that powers the Thanoy chatbot for about 43,000 users. AI Singapore is adding Nemotron to SEA-LION, and ITMAX and AS-TECH are applying Cosmos with VSS to city traffic and airports.
- HTX is researching Nemotron 3 Super and Nano Omni for public safety.
- iApp adapted Nemotron 3 Nano into OpenThai 2.0 Legal for Thanoy.
- YTL AI Labs and Viettel AI are fine-tuning Nemotron for local use.
- Cosmos and VSS support traffic and airport operations in the region.
- AI Singapore is extending SEA-LION with Nemotron and NeMo tools.
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NVIDIA AI Day Singapore, which takes place Sept. 22-23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, is offering attendees opportunities to explore the hands-on training, expert-led sessions and advanced tools to accelerate their work in AI and high-performance computing.
At the event, NVIDIA and its partners are showcasing breakthrough AI advancements across the Southeast Asia region at large.
Read more about these announcements below.
NVIDIA Accelerates Public Sector AI from Pilot to Production in Southeast Asia 🔗
AI is becoming a matter of national strategy, with governments looking to move from pilots to production and deliver impact at scale, while building trusted AI capabilities that reflect local languages, cultures, priorities and economic needs.
NVIDIA is working to enable all nations to be AI nations — providing the technology, infrastructure, ecosystem and expertise needed to make this possible. To accelerate this transition across Southeast Asia, NVIDIA is helping nations move AI from experimentation to production-scale deployment through open models, developer tools and a broad partner ecosystem.
Together, NVIDIA and its partners are focusing on four key areas:
- Enhancing government operations and service delivery.
- Developing accessible AI-powered citizen services, and empowering local businesses.
- Strengthening critical infrastructure and public safety.
- Supporting startups, developers and researchers to strengthen national AI capabilities and innovation in each country.
Singapore’s HTX (Home Team Science and Technology Agency) is embarking on research using the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni models to advance AI for public safety. Nemotron Super has the potential to support the agency’s complex reasoning and agentic workflows, while Omni’s unified vision, audio and language capabilities could help HTX develop multimodal applications grounded in real-world operational data. Together, the models could strengthen HTX’s ability to deploy secure, locally controlled AI across Singapore’s Home Team.
NCS is advancing agentic AI adoption across enterprises and the public sector, using Nemotron models and the NVIDIA Blueprint for video search and summarization (VSS), while advancing physical AI for practical humanoid robotics applications, to address security, responsiveness and data governance requirements. ST Engineering is using 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 is already underway across the region. Malaysia’s YTL AI Labs is fine-tuning Nemotron models for enterprise and citizen services, while Viettel AI is doing the same for Vietnamese-language applications.
In Thailand, the Big Data Institute and iApp Technology, as members of the ThaiLLM Collaboration, are exploring Nemotron as a foundation model. With an initial focus on legal applications, iApp Technology is adapting Nemotron 3 Nano by fine-tuning OpenThai 2.0 Legal with Thai-language legal data using the NVIDIA NeMo framework.
The model is released as open source for the Thai developer community and serves as the engine for Thanoy, the company’s legal-assistant chatbot, which already serves approximately 43,000 users.
In Brunei, Antrique built an AI innovation platform to help boost productivity across the nation’s food sector.
Across the region, NVIDIA Cosmos open world models and the NVIDIA VSS Blueprint are advancing smart city solution development. Malaysia’s ITMAX uses Cosmos with VSS to improve city traffic operations, while Thailand’s AS-TECH applies the same stack to improve passenger flow in airports.
Learn more about NVIDIA Nemotron and Cosmos models and read about NVIDIA’s participation in the Open Secure AI Alliance.
Southeast Asia Technology Leaders Build With NVIDIA Nemotron Open Models for Region-Specialized AI 🔗
Leading enterprises, technology providers and research organizations across Southeast Asia are building region-specialized AI models and applications with NVIDIA Nemotron open models, datasets and libraries — accelerating the development of AI tailored to the region’s languages, industries and communities.
NVIDIA Nemotron provides a foundation for regional AI ecosystems, letting organizations customize, control and own models that address their specific requirements. Nemotron also offers persona datasets that provide locally relevant synthetic data reflecting the region’s populations, languages and workforces.
Across the region, partners are building applications spanning public services, services and healthcare.
NVIDIA Nemotron Adoption Expands in Singapore
Enterprises in Singapore are adopting NVIDIA Nemotron for various use cases. AI Singapore is expanding its SEA-LION model family to include the NVIDIA Nemotron open models and NVIDIA NeMo tools. SEA-LION is an open model family designed for Southeast Asian languages and cultures.
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. The 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.
Across Asia Pacific, NVIDIA Nemotron Enables Region-Specific AI
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 has been extensively fine-tuning 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 it’s set to be adopted in Legal AI — an agent harness that will serve both internal Viettel Group employees and external customers.
Also in Vietnam, FPT Smart Cloud codeveloped Nemotron-Personas-Vietnam, an open dataset grounded in Vietnamese demographic and cultural data, and is enabling local developers to post-train and evaluate localized AI models.
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Sea the First in ASEAN Region to Adopt NVIDIA Vera Rubin, Scaling AI to Better Serve Communities Across Southeast Asia 🔗
Sea Limited, a global technology company founded in Singapore, 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.
Serving hundreds of millions of users through its Garena, Monee and Shopee platforms, Sea has already deployed AI across its businesses to make its services more useful and accessible. Now, with NVIDIA Vera Rubin, Sea will build on these efforts, developing and deploying AI models and intelligent agents at greater scale to serve the evolving needs of its communities.
On Shopee, AI is already helping sellers reduce the time and effort required to create informative product listings, improve product discovery and deepen customer engagement, while enabling better-informed business decisions. These capabilities enable small- and medium-sized enterprises in Southeast Asia, many of which operate with limited resources, to scale their businesses using enterprise-grade AI technologies previously accessible only to large corporations.
Across Monee, the digital financial services division of Sea, AI is being applied in areas such as fraud detection and credit risk assessment, supporting Monee’s ability to deliver simple, accessible and inclusive digital financial services. For small businesses and consumers underserved by traditional financial services, these capabilities can expansively broaden access to financial tools.
At Garena, Sea’s digital entertainment and video game arm, AI is used to enhance gaming experiences supporting the company’s efforts to create engaging, inclusive and safe online spaces that bring players together.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin will provide the advanced computing infrastructure to build on this foundation — enabling Sea to accelerate innovation, scale AI applications more broadly and deepen its impact for the communities it serves.
Learn more about NVIDIA Vera Rubin.