NVIDIA is expanding its artificial intelligence ecosystem across Southeast Asia as governments and local organizations move AI projects from experimental pilots toward operational deployment in public services, infrastructure and locally developed applications.
The initiative spans Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Brunei, with organizations using NVIDIA models and development tools for applications ranging from public safety and legal services to transportation, robotics and food production.
The expansion reflects a broader push toward what NVIDIA describes as “AI nations” — countries developing AI capabilities that can operate with local languages, data, infrastructure and economic priorities.
Singapore Targets Public Safety and Government Applications
In Singapore, the Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) is beginning research using NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Super and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni models for public-safety applications.
According to NVIDIA, Nemotron 3 Super could support complex reasoning and agentic workflows, while Nano Omni combines vision, audio and language capabilities that could be applied to multimodal systems using operational data.
The research is aimed at exploring AI systems that can remain under local control while supporting Singapore’s Home Team agencies.
Singapore-based technology company NCS is also deploying NVIDIA technology as it develops agentic and physical AI applications for enterprises and the public sector. Its work includes Nemotron models and NVIDIA’s video search and summarization technology.
Meanwhile, ST Engineering is using NVIDIA NeMo and cuOpt software to develop its AI Studio platform and agentic AI applications across its businesses, including marine maintenance, repair and overhaul operations.
Local-Language AI Expands Across the Region
Language localization is another focus of NVIDIA’s Southeast Asian strategy.
In Malaysia, YTL AI Labs is fine-tuning Nemotron models for enterprise and citizen-facing services, while Viettel AI is adapting models for Vietnamese-language applications.
Thailand is pursuing a similar approach. The country’s Big Data Institute and iApp Technology, members of the ThaiLLM Collaboration, are exploring Nemotron as a foundation for locally developed AI.
iApp Technology is fine-tuning Nemotron 3 Nano using Thai-language legal data through NVIDIA’s NeMo framework. Its OpenThai 2.0 Legal model has been released as open source and powers Thanoy, a legal-assistant chatbot that NVIDIA says already serves approximately 43,000 users.
AI Moves Into Cities, Airports and Food Production
The deployments extend beyond generative AI.
In Malaysia, ITMAX is using NVIDIA Cosmos open-world models alongside video search and summarization technology to develop smart-city applications and improve traffic operations.
Thailand’s AS-TECH is applying the same technology stack to passenger-flow management at airports.
In Brunei, technology company Antrique has developed an NVIDIA-powered AI innovation platform aimed at improving productivity in the country’s food sector.
Together, the projects illustrate how Southeast Asia’s AI development is moving beyond general-purpose chatbots toward applications built around public services, local languages, transportation, safety and industrial operations.
