Nvidia unveils wave of AI deals across Southeast Asia

Nvidia ↘ 1.47% and Singapore-founded cloud firm Aolani have agreed to deploy 22,000 Blackwell Ultra GPUs across new AI factory sites in Malaysia and the Philippines, in a deal that will bring Aolani's total regional capacity above 48,000 GPUs and more than 100 megawatts of compute infrastructure.finance.yahoo+1

The announcement, made on September 21, coincided with Nvidia's AI Day Singapore event running September 22-23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, where the chipmaker and its partners unveiled a wave of AI deployments spanning government agencies, regional language models and enterprise platforms across Southeast Asia.blogs.nvidia+1

Aolani Partnership Anchors Regional Build-Out

The two AI factories in Malaysia and the Philippines are expected to come online by early 2027. Aolani, an Nvidia Cloud Partner since 2023, will deploy the GPUs under a revenue-sharing and credit-support model designed to broaden access to AI compute for enterprises, startups and sovereign clients across Asia.asiabusinessoutlook+1

"This collaboration with Nvidia marks a defining moment in Aolani's mission to deliver world-class AI compute at the speed that matches the pace of AI development, and on infrastructure that is compliant, accountable, and trusted to perform," Aolani CEO Nicholas Chia said.w

The Aolani deal is part of a broader pattern of large-scale GPU commitments flowing into the region. Amazon Web Services Amazon.com, Inc. ↘ 2.24% plans to add two million Nvidia GPUs through 2028, while Australian firm Firmus is deploying Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin platform for OpenAI in Malaysia.tradingkey+1

Sea Limited First in ASEAN to Adopt Vera Rubin

At AI Day Singapore, Sea Limited ↘ 0.37% became the first enterprise in the ASEAN region to adopt the Nvidia Vera Rubin platform, which it will use to scale AI across its Shopee e-commerce, Monee financial services and Garena gaming divisions. On Shopee, an in-house AI model called Compass already powers search, product recommendations, fraud detection and customer service, all running on Nvidia hardware.theedgesingapore+1

Nemotron Models Spread Across the Region

Nvidia also expanded adoption of its open Nemotron models for region-specific AI. AI Singapore is integrating Nemotron into its SEA-LION model family for Southeast Asian languages, while Vietnam's Viettel AI achieved the highest ranking on both the VMLU benchmark and its internal product benchmark after fine-tuning Nemotron 3 Super for Vietnamese.techedt+1

In Thailand, iApp Technology adapted Nemotron 3 Nano for legal applications, releasing the OpenThai 2.0 Legal model as open source and powering Thanoy, a legal-assistant chatbot serving roughly 43,000 users. Singapore's HTX, the Home Team Science and Technology Agency, is beginning research with Nemotron models for public-safety applications involving complex reasoning and multimodal data.blogs.nvidia+1