FPT and National University of Singapore Join Forces in Driving AI Innovation and Fostering Talent Development Ali Guerra | usagoldmines.com

The Nationwide College of Singapore’s School of Computing (NUS Computing) has entered right into a partnership with FPT, a number one international expertise company primarily based in Vietnam, to advance the sector of synthetic intelligence (AI). This collaboration plans a joint funding of US$50 million, to be contributed by FPT, NUS, and different key gamers within the native and regional AI ecosystems over the following 5 years, aiming to drive pioneering analysis in AI and improve expertise growth. 

This partnership is not going to solely strengthen FPT’s capability to commercialise AI options and enhance its R&D capabilities but in addition foster the event of top-tier AI workforce, thereby enhancing its aggressive benefit within the APAC area and past. 

New AI Lab to propel collaborative analysis, innovation, and commercialisation initiatives 

A key focus of this partnership is the institution of a state-of-the-art AI Lab. Combining the strengths of NUS’ analysis and FPT’s business experience, the brand new AI Lab will speed up cutting-edge analysis in various domains of AI, together with machine studying, knowledge analytics, pure language processing, and laptop imaginative and prescient, benefiting Singapore, the Asia Pacific area, and past. 

Hosted at NUS Computing, the brand new AI Lab can be a part of the College’s dynamic AI ecosystem, collaborating with the NUS AI Institute (NAII) – which brings collectively AI researchers and experience throughout the College. The brand new AI Lab’s modern analysis tasks will deal with AI and automation, emphasising real-world functions in numerous industries, corresponding to banking and insurance coverage, logistics and transportation, aviation and airline, power and utilities, manufacturing, and extra. As well as, the brand new AI Lab will produce joint analysis papers, case research, and white papers for publication in internationally recognised journals and conferences, sharing findings with the tutorial and enterprise communities. 

NUS Computing and FPT may also discover alternatives to commercialise AI-driven options, together with the joint growth of AI merchandise, companies, and platforms for international markets. By specializing in real-world challenges, the AI Lab will harness the potential of AI to drive constructive developments in sectors essential to Singapore’s growth and international progress. 

Constructing capability and boosting AI skills 

Expertise growth is one other cornerstone of the partnership. FPT and NUS Computing will conduct joint programmes, corresponding to internships, workshops, coaching programs, and PhD analysis alternatives, to nurture AI skills. These initiatives will domesticate a pool of extremely expert professionals geared up with the talents and experience to steer future developments in AI and automation throughout Singapore and the broader APAC area. 

Driving Innovation Collectively 

FPT Company Founder and Chairman Dr Truong Gia Binh mentioned, “FPT believes AI is a pivotal accelerator in shaping the longer term. For greater than a decade, FPT has been actively pursuing AI analysis and growth to stimulate improvements and has built-in AI into all our companies and options. We additionally invested closely within the coaching and growth of an AI-ready workforce. The shut partnership with the famend NUS can assist us harness AI energy to drive mutual development and success not solely in Singapore and Vietnam however globally.” 

Mr David Nguyen, FPT Asia Pacific Chief Government Officer, emphasised the strategic significance of the collaboration: “The institution of the AI Lab in Singapore is a cornerstone of our partnership, the place we’ll develop groundbreaking options to deal with challenges throughout industries which might be essential to the area’s development and international competitiveness corresponding to healthcare, banking and insurance coverage, logistics and transportation, aviation and airline, power and utilities, manufacturing, and extra. By leveraging one another’s experience, we intention to speed up innovation and drive impactful outcomes regionally, within the Asia-Pacific area, and worldwide.” 

Professor Tan Kian Lee, Dean of NUS Computing, mentioned, “This synergistic partnership brings collectively the complementary strengths of NUS Computing and FPT. We intention to deliver modern AI options to real-world challenges, and on the identical time, contributing to the AI ecosystem in Singapore and globally by way of the event of a extremely expert AI workforce.” 

FPT has over a decade of expertise in AI analysis and growth. Most just lately, it introduced investments of US$174 million to determine an AI centre in Binh Dinh, Vietnam, and a plan to speculate US$200 million to develop an AI manufacturing unit utilising NVIDIA’s superior graphics chips and software program. These AI initiatives are additional boosted by in depth international partnerships with main AI gamers corresponding to NVIDIA, Touchdown AI, AITOMATIC, and the founding membership of the AI Alliance led by IBM and Meta. The tech agency additionally boasts an AI workforce of over 1,500 engineers, with extra sources of 1,300 FPT College college students majoring in AI yearly. Its AI Residency programme, established in collaboration with Mila Quebec AI Institute, additionally actively cultivates the following generations of AI skills. 

However, NUS boasts robust capabilities in AI analysis. The College has cast robust connections with authorities companies, business, and worldwide companions by way of numerous AI initiatives. To reinforce its affect within the AI panorama, NUS launched NAII in March 2024, which focuses on each basic and utilized analysis in AI, in addition to explores the societal implications of AI.