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The platform is designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises, who typically face capital constraints, by offering them with synthetic intelligence {hardware}

The Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) is planning to spend NT$100 million (US$3.12 million) subsequent yr to buy synthetic intelligence (AI) graphics processing items (GPUs) and facilitate an AI computing platform.

The NT$100 million would even be used to enhance cybersecurity as a part of the AI computing platform, the ministry stated yesterday.

The platform could be significantly essential for start-ups and smaller corporations, a ministry official stated.

The ministry has chosen 64 certified candidates because it began accepting purposes to make use of the AI computing platform in July, greater than half of that are start-ups, the official stated.

The plan to purchase no fewer than 70 GPUs subsequent yr would permit the certified candidates to make use of them without spending a dime, the official added.

Minister of Digital Affairs Yennun Huang (黃彥男) in a current interview stated that many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) confronted difficulties in creating AI computing due to the massive expense and their restricted capital, making authorities assist a should, the official stated.

Relying on the specification, an AI GPU can price hundreds or tens of hundreds of US {dollars}.

If some SMEs and start-ups are allowed to make use of the GPUs without spending a dime as a part of the ministry’s AI computing platform, they might be capable of develop merchandise on a trial foundation to search out business worth, Huang stated.

The AI computing platform is a part of the ministry’s four-year cross-domain digital public infrastructure and digital providers ascendancy program, the ministry stated.

It’s geared toward laying a sound basis for the native software program business to develop AI purposes for business use and enhance Taiwan’s competitiveness within the digital sector, the ministry added.

This yr, the ministry’s Administration for Digital Industries purchased 32 superior H100 central processing items from US-based AI chip designer Nvidia Corp and eight refined MI300X GPUs from Superior Micro Units, one other US-based AI GPU designer, to help SMEs and start-ups.

The deliberate buy of a further 70 GPUs would inject new momentum into the AI computing platform, through which certified candidates could be allowed to make use of these gadgets owned by the platform for six weeks, freed from cost, the ministry stated.

The 64 certified candidates as a part of the AI computing platform are anticipated to develop their AI purposes in a variety of fields, together with philanthropy, schooling, healthcare, catastrophe prevention, manufacturing and transportation, the ministry stated.

One of many profitable candidates desires to develop a multi-language translation machine by integrating Mandarin, Hoklo, Hakka and Southeast Asian languages corresponding to Thai and Indonesian languages right into a database, to assist immigrants in Taiwan talk extra simply, the ministry stated.

One other profitable applicant desires to make use of information from greater than 170,000 studies on rainfall quantity, sewage capability and flood data to construct a mannequin that may predict flooding, the ministry stated.

A 3rd applicant is hoping to strengthen enforcement of environmental safety legal guidelines by establishing an air air pollution prevention mannequin powered by AI applied sciences, the ministry stated.