AI is making developments throughout the globe and throughout industries, creating impacts that may final throughout time.
To assist foster AI innovation for everybody, in every single place, NVIDIA hosts specialised occasions — together with AI Days — for and in numerous pockets of the world. These occasions attract a whole lot of fans, 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 came about 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 might be enabling innovation on the regional, nationwide and world scales.
Attendees verify in at NVIDIA AI Day Ho Chi Minh Metropolis.
Chuck Tybur, head of the NVIDIA Accomplice Community, gave opening remarks, highlighting the significance of sovereign AI. He mentioned key parts for sovereign AI success embrace:
- An AI crucial, understanding home AI capabilities are essential to financial development, nationwide safety, cultural preservation and innovation
- An AI ecosystem of builders, scientists, entrepreneurs, traders, 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 wishes
- AI factories which might be domestically owned, operated and ruled
Chuck Tybur, head of the NVIDIA Accomplice Community, presents on the important thing parts of sovereign AI.
Ho Chi Minh Metropolis showcases “dynamic financial development, relentless innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit,” Tybur mentioned on the convention.
“Vietnam places AI on the middle of its financial technique,” added Vo Xuan Hoai, deputy director of the Vietnam Nationwide Innovation Heart. The middle helps and develops the nation’s startup and innovation ecosystem, contributing to the event of science and expertise within the area.
Why It Issues
The newest AI traits in Vietnam showcase how the expertise is driving digital transformation throughout authorities companies, finance, sensible manufacturing, healthcare and inventive industries.
“Vietnamese folks have achieved outstanding excellence in STEM fields, with many younger college students excelling in arithmetic, science and expertise,” mentioned Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, throughout his go to to Vietnam final 12 months. “This offers a stable basis for creating future applied sciences.”
The numbers assist showcase the Vietnam AI ecosystem’s ongoing development:
Occasion Highlights
Along with breakout periods by subject, the occasion included meetups for 10 startups, NVIDIA Accomplice Community members and NVIDIA Cloud Companions.
Plus, hands-on NVIDIA Deep Studying Institute coaching labs lined:
- The basics of agentic AI: A short introduction to agent abstraction, rising frameworks and key insights shaping the most recent AI and software program improvements.
- Generative AI mannequin compression: How one can distill, quantize and prune for environment friendly giant 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 unit, 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, automated speech recognition, LLMs for real-time video analytics and clever video-query functions.
- Zalo is creating sovereign LLMs tailor-made to the nation’s distinctive linguistic and cultural wants.
What’s Subsequent
Trying 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 expertise,” mentioned Tuan Minh Pham, CEO of FPT Software program and govt vp of FPT Company. “Our mission isn’t solely to develop the nation or shield our independence in our on-line world but additionally to make sure nationwide safety, the privateness of our folks and resilience towards exterior components. I consider that AI and sovereign AI are essential 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 specialists, and get entangled in alternatives for innovation.
