NVIDIA Expands Southeast Asia AI With Nemotron and Vera Rubin
NVIDIA unveils Southeast Asia AI projects using Nemotron, Cosmos and Vera Rubin across public safety, legal services, smart cities, healthcare and commerce.
Summary
NVIDIA AI Day Singapore runs Sept. 22 to 23, 2026, at Raffles City Convention Centre, pairing hands-on AI and high-performance computing training with partner deployments aimed at moving Southeast Asian governments from pilots to locally controlled production systems. Singapore’s HTX is researching Nemotron 3 Super and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni for secure reasoning and multimodal public safety; NCS uses Nemotron and the NVIDIA Blueprint for video search and summarization while developing humanoid robotics; and ST Engineering applies NeMo and cuOpt in AI Studio and Marine MRO. YTL AI Labs is localizing Nemotron. Thailand’s Big Data Institute and iApp Technology, through ThaiLLM Collaboration, are evaluating it; iApp fine-tuned OpenThai 2.0 Legal on Nemotron 3 Nano with NeMo and open-sourced the model that powers 43,000-user Thanoy. Brunei’s Antrique built a food-sector productivity platform; ITMAX in Malaysia uses Cosmos and VSS for traffic, while Thailand’s AS-TECH applies them to airport passenger flow.
AI Singapore is adding Nemotron and NeMo to its Southeast Asian language and culture focused SEA-LION family. Hummingbird Bioscience and LynxKite are combining Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, NeMo Retriever and in silico simulations in an explainable Toxicity Knowledge Graph intended to unify public and proprietary data and reduce drug-development risk. Bitdeer AI supplied GPU cloud infrastructure for NVIDIA’s Open Models AI Codefest; FPT Smart Cloud codeveloped the open Nemotron-Personas-Vietnam dataset. Viettel AI’s Vietnamese Nemotron 3 Super topped VMLU and its internal product benchmark and is slated for Legal AI for Viettel Group staff and external customers. Sea Limited, serving hundreds of millions through Shopee, Monee and Garena, becomes ASEAN’s first enterprise adopting NVIDIA Vera Rubin to scale models and agents: Shopee supports listings, discovery, engagement and decisions for small businesses; Monee uses AI for fraud and credit risk to widen finance; Garena targets safer, more inclusive gaming.
Positives
- Sea Limited becomes ASEAN’s first enterprise adopting NVIDIA Vera Rubin, expanding AI infrastructure for hundreds of millions of Shopee, Monee and Garena users.
- Viettel AI’s Vietnamese Nemotron 3 Super ranked first on VMLU and the company’s internal product benchmark.
- Thanoy already serves approximately 43,000 users using iApp Technology’s open-source Thai legal model.
- ITMAX and AS-TECH are applying NVIDIA Cosmos and VSS to city traffic and airport passenger flow.
- FPT Smart Cloud’s open Nemotron-Personas-Vietnam dataset gives developers culturally grounded data for training and evaluating localized models.
- HTX is researching locally controlled Nemotron systems for secure reasoning and multimodal public-safety applications across Singapore’s Home Team.
Risks & concerns
- HTX’s Nemotron research remains exploratory, with public-safety capabilities described as potential outcomes rather than completed deployments.
- Thailand’s Big Data Institute and iApp Technology are still evaluating Nemotron as a foundation model despite Thanoy’s existing user base.
- Hummingbird Bioscience’s Toxicity Knowledge Graph aims to reduce drug-development risk, but no measured outcomes are disclosed.
- Sea’s Vera Rubin announcement provides no deployment date, capacity, investment figure or performance target for the planned expansion.