NVIDIA aims to develop its Vietnam Research and Development Center (VRDC) in Hanoi into a world-class AI engineering hub, contributing both to the company’s global operations and to the innovation ecosystem in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
NVIDIA Global Vice President Steven Truong Steven Truong said on Monday, at a conference announcing Hanoi’s 100-year master plan and 2026 investment promotion, according to a statement from the Hanoi People’s Committee.
Truong said NVIDIA’s vision is for VRDC to become a center that contributes to NVIDIA’s global success while also serving as a hub for the region and the world, helping position Vietnam as an AI pioneer and Hanoi as one of the country’s growth poles for innovation and digital transformation.
To support this goal, NVIDIA will invest in human resources, including students, lecturers, and researchers, and will deploy research collaboration programs with Vietnamese partners, including universities and research institutes. NVIDIA also aims to build one of the world’s most advanced AI ecosystems through modern AI factories and infrastructure designed to attract talents.
Truong said Hanoi stands at a unique opportunity to become one of the world’s leading AI capitals. He said AI-native digital transformation will shape Hanoi’s next century of development, with the ultimate goal of improving citizens’ quality of life, building transparent and efficient governance, developing smart cities, and creating high-value jobs.
On NVIDIA’s current operations, Truong said the company’s business in Vietnam grew approximately 130 percent between 2025 and 2026, while VRDC itself grew approximately 90 percent over the same period, with the center expanding its engineering and research teams in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and drawing top graduates from leading universities, major technology companies, and the expert community.
He said VRDC engineers and scientists are directly contributing to several of NVIDIA’s major global strategic programs, including Speech AI, Metropolis, BioNeMo, AI-RAN, and agentic systems, as well as the development of a Vietnamese large language model on NVIDIA’s NeMo platform that achieved the top ranking on the VMLU leaderboard.
Hanoi can become one of the world’s most advanced AI ecosystems, combining AI infrastructure, sovereign AI, AI factories, world-class universities, research centres, an innovation startup ecosystem, and high-quality human resources, Truong highlighted.
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