Google Cloud has doubled down on enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) commitment to Singapore.

The firm said in a statement on last Thursday that it has unveiled transformative innovations that will help advance Singapore’s AI ambitions, and serve as the launchpad for Asian companies to scale and succeed with AI.

These innovations include: data residency guarantees that empower organizations to innovate to the fullest extent in the public cloud; advancements in Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) that bring the power of Gemini on-premises; and agentic applications that elevate customer experiences across touchpoints.

The firm also showcased new and expanded partnerships with Singapore organizations, including the Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT), DBS Bank, FairPrice Group (FPG), the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech Singapore), the Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX), and the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Josephine Teo, Minister for Digital Development and Information of Singapore, has reinforced Singapore’s commitment to mutually beneficial partnerships, highlighting how joint initiatives with open technology providers like Google Cloud have helped accelerate the creation of novel and practical AI solutions for Singapore, and from Singapore to the world.

Meanwhile, Thomas Kurian, Chief Executive Officer, Google Cloud, said Singapore is the launchpad for AI in Asia, and today the firm is making Google’s most capable models and AI tools available here.

“By bringing Gemini everywhere – in the public cloud with data residency guarantees, in on-premises or disconnected environments, and at the edge – we are unleashing a wave of innovation for both public sector organizations and businesses across industries. With AI, we are providing a potent catalyst for transformation and creating new economic opportunities,” he added.

It is noted that Google Cloud’s Singapore cloud region is among the first globally to offer expanded data residency guarantees for the company’s most in-demand enterprise AI services, including Gemini 2.5 Flash, Google’s thinking model optimized for low latency and cost efficiency, which can be accessed through Vertex AI; Vertex AI Search for embedding agentic search into websites, apps, and intranets; and NotebookLM Enterprise, a Google-built agent for summarizing and extracting information across complex sources.

With this development, organizations across all sectors can now not only store their data at-rest but also perform machine learning processing for their AI workloads entirely within Singapore.

Google Cloud has also announced the general availability of Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped and the preview of Gemini on GDC connected, enabling organizations to leverage the full power of Gemini models while keeping their sensitive data under their control, in their own data center.

To ensure the safe, secure, and responsible deployment of agentic AI, Google, GovTech Singapore, the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) are exploring the establishment of a dedicated AI agents sandbox to test agentic solutions for public sector use cases.

As part of the collaboration, Google will provide GovTech Singapore with access to a new browser control tool via the Gemini API through its trusted tester program. This prototype tool, which is based on Google’s Project Mariner, can reason, plan, and take action on a user’s behalf.

Within the sandbox, all four partners will rigorously evaluate and refine agentic solutions, and jointly issue recommendations for autonomous agentic AI in Singapore.

Building on its expanded data residency guarantees, Google Cloud today announced the expansion of its AI Cloud Takeoff (AI CTO) program, organized in partnership with Digital Industry Singapore (DISG) under the Singapore Government’s Enterprise Compute Initiative.

Designed to help companies boost their competitiveness and unlock new revenue opportunities, the expanded program will see Google Cloud and its partners enabling international companies to establish a Data Boundary for their AI-driven offerings to meet Singapore’s data compliance requirements.

From there, they can leverage Google Cloud’s Assured Workloads to extend their offerings to regulated markets in the Americas, Europe, or the Middle East.

Through AI CTO, DISG and Google Cloud will provide each company with Google Cloud credits, Google Cloud Skills Boost licenses, and partner consultancy support worth up to S$500,000 ($389,633), to help them address high-value AI use cases. Additional Google Cloud partners appointed by DISG to support the program include Aimazing, Cloud Ace, Endava, NCS, Onepoint, OniGroup, PointStar, and Tridorian.

DBS’s strategic collaboration with Google Cloud is also one of the partnerships that has been instrumental in advancing the bank’s AI-powered capabilities and strengthening its market competitiveness.

Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform is one of the solutions integrated with DBS’s self-service data platform (i.e., ADA, or Advancing DBS with AI), which has helped automate infrastructure management and data processing as it scales up its AI use cases.

Google Cloud and FairPrice Group (FPG) also announced their expanded collaboration to pioneer agentic solutions that help FPG customers shop smarter and save more.

This collaboration, part of FPG’s Store of Tomorrow program, involves launching a suite of agentic AI assistants developed using Google Cloud’s Agent Development Kit (ADK).

At the FairPrice Finest outlet in Punggol Digital District, which opened on last Thursday, shoppers can take advantage of a Smart Cart assistant, a wellness assistant, and a digital wine sommelier, among other Google Cloud-enabled AI innovations.

Extending the collaboration further, FPG is deploying Agentspace to transform how its employees work, collaborate, and serve customers, complementing their ongoing use of Google Workspace.

In addition, FPG developed a custom creative agent to support its price and promotion teams.

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