US chip giant Nvidia signed a partnership with Thai tech company SIAM.AI on Wednesday to build the country’s first “sovereign cloud”.
The deal was announced during a visit to Bangkok by Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of the leading semiconductor design business, during which he agreed to support the development of artificial intelligence in Thailand.
A “sovereign cloud” is the idea that a country, region or community will have control over its data – where it is stored, how it is accessed, who oversees it.
Huang said that the data stored on Thailand’s sovereign cloud server could be used to power a local “AI ecosystem”, such as a generative AI chatbot fed by Thai data.
It came after Huang said Tuesday that it would work with the Thai government to develop “world-class AI infrastructure” in the kingdom.
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On Wednesday, Huang added that Nvidia would partner with 40 Thai universities and over 50 start-ups so that local schools and enterprises “will have access to Thai AI”.
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