Singtel recently announced the launch of RE: AI, its new Artificial Intelligence Cloud Service (AI Cloud) aiming to democratize AI to make it accessible to organizations. This gives enterprises and public sector customers affordable availability to AI technologies that can effortlessly alter their operations without needing to invest or maintain in-house infrastructure and supporting resources.
The turnkey AI development and deployment platform will combine state-of-the-art AI compute infrastructure like graphics processing units (GPUs) and storage, AI workspaces, and tools, with diverse networks such as 5G, fixed, or quantum-safe networks. These will be delivered through Singtel’s patented orchestration platform, Paragon. The offering will enable customers to deploy, manage, and scale their AI applications without having to worry about the overheads of complex infrastructure, thereby allowing them to innovate and take their productivity to the next level.
Five Memorandum of Understanding were signed with these partners in these areas, which was officiated by Guest-of-Honour, Mr Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry. Singtel focuses to democratise AI by working with strategic partners in five ways – through the creation of a research and development AI Cloud platform, facilitation of AI adoption for the advanced manufacturing sector, ecosystem development to accelerate the deployment of AI solutions, curation of tech incubation and acceleration program for promising tech companies and AI skills training to empower its workforce
Mr Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel's Digital InfraCo, said, “Many enterprises and public sector customers have shown keen interest in bringing AI into their operations. However, the high costs and long lead times for GPUs, the need for special environments to host them due to their intense energy utilization, the complexity of AI technology, and the lack of talent are key friction points in their respective journeys”.
“With the launch of RE: AI, we’re significantly reducing entry barriers, making AI easily accessible to enterprises, government agencies, research communities, and academia, the more people have access to AI, the more innovation is bound to emerge, which in turn fuels growth. RE: AI will foster a dynamic ecosystem of partners with distinctive capabilities and platforms to accelerate AI adoption to drive innovation and growth in Singapore and the region, sustainably. As we build on this ecosystem, we will attract global AI tech companies here to expand into the region with our market access. This is key to positioning Singapore as a regional AI”.