Singtel and Bridge Alliance are teaming up to bring Singtel’s GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offerings to enterprises across the region.
Southeast Asia telecommunications companies, including AIS in Thailand, Maxis in Malaysia, and Telkomsel in Indonesia, are among the first to adopt the service to meet the increasing demand for AI computing in their respective countries.
This service will provide enterprises with access to NVIDIA’s AI computing power so they can deploy AI at scale quickly and cost effectively to accelerate growth and innovation.
By 2030, AI adoption could add nearly US$1 trillion to the Southeast Asian economy, provided its transformative capabilities are effectively leveraged to create value. Regional governments have introduced national AI roadmaps aimed at responsibly and fully harnessing the technology’s potential.
Bridge Alliance member operators (BMOs) will get access to the GPUaaS offerings from Singtel. As the GPU needs expand in these countries, more GPU clusters will be launched into the respective countries to accelerate and scale the businesses. Bridge Alliance will assist BMOs in fast-tracking their go-to-market strategies and effectively drive the success of the GPUaaS offerings with the enterprises.
“Our collaboration with Bridge Alliance and telcos in the region will help democratise and accelerate the use of AI by enterprises across all industries, giving them the tools to achieve greater productivity and business value with our next-generation digital infrastructure and solutions. This reinforces our goal of being a catalyst for innovation and supporting the digital transformation of Southeast Asia’s digital economies,” said Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit.
“Through our extensive coverage and ability to integrate services across multiple markets, this initiative once again validates the value of the Bridge Alliance ecosystem as a preferred solution partner in driving optimisation and innovation, especially for companies with multinational operations,” said Dr Ong Geok Chwee, CEO of Bridge Alliance.
Singtel’s GPUaaS will initially be powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU-powered clusters. The service will be expanded to run in new sustainable, hyper-connected, AI-ready data centres across Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia from mid-2025.
Singtel will be also among the world’s first to deploy NVIDIA’s GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips, which deliver 30x faster real-time large language model inference than the previous Hopper generation.
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