Vietnamese company, Viettel Group and NVIDIA, based in California, signed a Memorandum of Understanding as part of their newly established strategic partnership to help implement the use of artificial intelligence to further advance Viettel and Vietnam's technology research and solutions, a press release stated.
"As the only AI company that operates inside every other AI company, NVIDIA will join with Viettel to upskill Vietnam's workforce and forge the foundation for an expansive domestic AI industry,” Keith Strier, vice president of Worldwide AI Initiatives, NVIDIA said. “Viettel is taking action to ensure Vietnam has the necessary human and compute infrastructure needed to be an AI Nation. Within three years, I expect that other countries will aspire to be the 'Vietnam' of their region."
To equip its team with tech and domestic workforce readiness knowledge, the company will host training courses, advisory sessions, seminars and conferences covering the use of NVIDIA GPU-accelerated computing in AI model training, testing and application.
“The collaboration between Viettel and NVIDIA marks a milestone in implementing Vietnam's National AI Strategy and bringing Viettel's AI solutions to the international market,” a recent press release stated.
"With the ultimate goal of advancing Vietnam's AI leadership, Viettel will promote further collaboration with world-leading technology firms,” Viettel deputy director Nguyen Dinh Chien said in the release. “We are delighted to have NVIDIA as a key partner to drive our AI innovations to greater heights and to accelerate our AI research competency."
Viettel is the first Vietnam-based company of its kind, and one of five in Asia to have AI-related involvements with NVIDIA. The company will join a partner network built by experts from various industries and benefit from its machine learning (ML) and AI research, ML/AI industry collaborations, among other expertise points.
Through the collaboration, Viettel and NVIDIA hope to compile and develop further research related to Viettel's AI technology in robotics, computer vision and natural language processes, among other abilities. NVIDIA’s technology contributes to the global AI hardware and software industry, and is currently used in 70% of the world's top 500 fastest supercomputers.