AI

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, NVIDIA, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), and the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs have launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC), Indonesia's first university-based AI technology center.

Manus, a Singapore-headquartered AI agent startup founded in China, will return to operating as an independent company and delete some user data, months after Chinese regulators blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of the startup.

Around one in five employees in ASEAN lose more than seven hours a week moving information and reconciling data between disconnected systems, even as 86 percent say AI has improved their day-to-day work experience.

As many as 85 percent of affluent and high-net-worth investors in Malaysia use AI tools for finance and investment, ranking the country third among ten markets surveyed, according to HSBC.

China's technology giant Alibaba has launched a public beta of Wan3.0, an AI video generation model supporting clips of up to 30 seconds and multimodal inputs including text, image, video, audio, web pages, PDFs, and PowerPoint presentations.

Malaysia's Ministry of Digital and MyDIGITAL Corporation will co-host the AI Malaysia Takeover 2026 (AIMTO_26), a two-day event in Kuala Lumpur on August 11-12, to push Malaysia's AI readiness and digital adoption.

Indonesia's Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has launched Zankore by Indosat, an AI infrastructure platform targeting 1 GW of NVIDIA DSX AI Factory capacity, in collaboration with Qatar's Ooredoo Group as lead investor, Finland's Nokia, and US chipmaker NVIDIA.

Acrab, a Singapore-headquartered technology company building agentic AI compute infrastructure, has raised $130 million in a Series B round led by existing investors Vertex Ventures SEA & India and Vertex Growth.

Vietnam's technology giant FPT has become an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network, with a focus on integrating OpenAI's frontier AI capabilities into FPT's cybersecurity platforms and enterprise workflows.

Tencent Hy3 (formerly known as Tencent Hunyuan), the latest large language model developed by China's Tencent, is now available for international access, following the model's official release on July 6.