Singtel announced on Thursday the launch of RE:AI, its new Artificial Intelligence Cloud Service (AI Cloud) offering, aimed at democratizing AI to make it widely available to organizations.
This gives enterprises and public sector customers affordable access to AI technologies that can seamlessly transform their operations without needing to invest or maintain in-house infrastructure and supporting resources, the Singapore-based telco said.
The turnkey AI development and deployment platform will combine 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, the company added.
These will be delivered through Singtel’s patented orchestration platform, ParagonTM. 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 next level.
Singtel aims to democratize 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 empowering its workforce.
Five Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) were signed with these partners in these areas, at the launch of RE:AI, which was officiated by Guest-of-Honour, Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry.
Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel’s Digital InfraCo, said, “Many enterprises and public sector customers have shown keen interest to bring 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 utilisation, the complexity of AI technology and the lack of talent are key friction points in their respective journeys.”
“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,” he said.
Singtel said it has been scaling its next-generation digital infrastructure and partnerships to support the growing demand for efficient, scalable and cost-effective AI solutions.
The launch of RE:AI and partnerships are part of Singtel’s strategy to accelerate digital transformation for enterprises, starting with digital infrastructure and scalable AI solutions, the company said.
One of the early initiatives include the development of a new generation of sustainable, hyper-connected AI-ready data center through its Nxera data center arm.
Nxera is on track to becoming one of the world’s largest independent data center players with advanced liquid cooling capabilities and support for next-generation GPUs.
There have also been recent tie ups with global and local ecosystem partnerships such as Hitachi Group in Japan, the establishment of a GPU cloud alliance with Vultr and GMI Cloud in the US and Nscale in Europe as well as collaborations with Bridge Alliance, AIS, Telkom Group and Maxis to bring Singtel’s AI Cloud offerings to enterprises in the region, the company said.