AI is making developments throughout the globe and throughout industries, creating impacts that can final throughout time.
To assist foster AI innovation for everybody, all over the place, NVIDIA hosts specialised occasions — together with AI Days — for and in numerous pockets of the world. These occasions attract a whole bunch of lovers, builders, researchers and startups to discover the most recent applied sciences making AI breakthroughs potential.
The newest cease: Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, Vietnam.
NVIDIA AI Day Ho Chi Minh Metropolis happened on Tuesday, Sept. 23, on the Sheraton Saigon Grand Opera Lodge.
On Tuesday, greater than 800 attendees joined NVIDIA AI Day Ho Chi Minh Metropolis to study sovereign AI — together with 15 breakout sections on bodily, agentic and generative AI, in addition to AI factories which are enabling innovation on the regional, nationwide and world scales.
Attendees examine in at NVIDIA AI Day Ho Chi Minh Metropolis.
Chuck Tybur, head of the NVIDIA Associate Community, gave opening remarks, highlighting the significance of sovereign AI. He stated key parts for sovereign AI success embrace:
- An AI crucial, understanding home AI capabilities are important to financial progress, nationwide safety, cultural preservation and innovation
- An AI ecosystem of builders, scientists, entrepreneurs, buyers, enterprises and authorities organizations
- An AI-ready workforce comprising a variety of AI expertise and expertise
- AI fashions and information tailor-made to a area’s language, tradition and desires
- AI factories which are regionally owned, operated and ruled
Chuck Tybur, head of the NVIDIA Associate Community, presents on the important thing parts of sovereign AI.
Ho Chi Minh Metropolis showcases “dynamic financial progress, relentless innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit,” Tybur stated on the convention.
“Vietnam places AI on the middle of its financial technique,” added Vo Xuan Hoai, deputy director of the Vietnam Nationwide Innovation Middle. The middle helps and develops the nation’s startup and innovation ecosystem, contributing to the event of science and know-how within the area.
Why It Issues
The newest AI traits in Vietnam showcase how the know-how is driving digital transformation throughout authorities companies, finance, good manufacturing, healthcare and artistic industries.
“Vietnamese folks have achieved exceptional excellence in STEM fields, with many younger college students excelling in arithmetic, science and know-how,” stated Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, throughout his go to to Vietnam final yr. “This supplies a strong basis for creating future applied sciences.”
The numbers assist showcase the Vietnam AI ecosystem’s ongoing progress:
Occasion Highlights
Along with breakout periods by subject, the occasion included meetups for 10 startups, NVIDIA Associate Community members and NVIDIA Cloud Companions.
Plus, hands-on NVIDIA Deep Studying Institute coaching labs coated:
- The basics of agentic AI: A quick introduction to agent abstraction, rising frameworks and key insights shaping the most recent AI and software program improvements.
- Generative AI mannequin compression: Easy methods to distill, quantize and prune for environment friendly massive language fashions (LLMs), optimized inference and decrease deployment prices. The session additionally mentioned potential trade-offs in accuracy, latency and {hardware} utilizing NVIDIA options.
A panel on constructing Vietnam’s sovereign AI imaginative and prescient, capabilities and alternatives.
Trade in Movement
Vietnam-based NVIDIA companions and prospects are advancing the nation’s position within the subsequent industrial revolution fueled by AI.
- GreenNode is constructing large-scale Vietnamese LLMs with high-quality, culturally tailor-made datasets and scalable, safe deployment capabilities.
- FPT is showcasing end-to-end AI growth with a home AI manufacturing facility, utilizing NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs for safe, accelerated mannequin coaching, fine-tuning and deployment of enterprise AI brokers.
- VNPT AI is advancing its AI capabilities by integrating the NVIDIA DeepStream software program growth equipment with in-house AI fashions together with for laptop imaginative and prescient, computerized speech recognition, LLMs for real-time video analytics and clever video-query purposes.
- Zalo is creating sovereign LLMs tailor-made to the nation’s distinctive linguistic and cultural wants.
What’s Subsequent
Wanting ahead, Vietnam goals to construct three nationwide information facilities and be among the many prime 4 main AI nations in Southeast Asia by 2030.
“These days, within the tech period, sovereignty additionally extends to know-how,” stated Tuan Minh Pham, CEO of FPT Software program and government vice chairman of FPT Company. “Our mission will not be solely to develop the nation or defend our independence in our on-line world but additionally to make sure nationwide safety, the privateness of our folks and resilience towards exterior elements. I imagine that AI and sovereign AI are crucial to propel Vietnam additional and help the nation in velocity and scalability to meet up with developed nations.”
Subsequent up: Attendees of NVIDIA AI Day Tokyo, working Sept. 24-25, will uncover the most recent AI breakthroughs, join with friends and consultants, and get entangled in alternatives for innovation.
