SINGTEL has partnered with Bridge Alliance—a global mobile alliance with 35 member operators—to extend its GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offerings to enterprises across Southeast Asia. The cloud-based GPUaaS solution, which provides on-demand access to graphics processing units (GPUs), is set to launch later this year.
A GPU, a type of artificial intelligence (AI) chip, has potential applications in machine learning, graphics rendering, data processing, and gaming. Through this partnership, Bridge Alliance member operators will gain access to Singtel's GPUaaS offerings. As demand for GPUs grows in these regions, additional clusters will be launched in each country to help businesses accelerate and scale.
Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit, said: “Our collaboration with Bridge Alliance and telcos in the region will help democratize and accelerate the use of AI by enterprises across all industries, giving them the tools to achieve greater productivity and business value with our next-generation digital infrastructure and solutions”. AIS in Thailand, Malaysia’s Maxis and Telkomsel in Indonesia are among the early adopters of the offering.
Goh Seow Eng, CEO of Maxis, said: “We look forward to being the first telco to bring GPUaaS to businesses here in Malaysia. This offering will provide a cost-efficient way for businesses to access high-performance computing and data processing capabilities. They will also have the flexibility to scale their resources on-demand for more complex workloads such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, 3D modelling and large-scale analytics.”
On March 19, the local telecom company announced plans to launch its GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) in Singapore and Southeast Asia during the third quarter of this year. This service will offer businesses access to Nvidia H100 GPU-powered clusters, which will be hosted in Singtel's newly upgraded data centers in Singapore.