Tào Đức Thắng, Chairman cum General Director of Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) had a meeting with Jensen Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA Group. — Photo courtesy of Viettel

Viettel and NVIDIA have the same vision of developing artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to Jensen Huang, President and CEO of the US chip giant NVIDIA.

Tào Đức Thắng, Chairman cum General Director of Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel), had a meeting with Jensen Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA Group (NVIDIA) earlier this week.

At the meeting, Huang praised Viettel for creating a mobile revolution and helping Việt Nam connect with technology. He appreciated their approach to building infrastructure and saw it as an opportunity to build digital intelligence, leading to a new economy and making Việt Nam the most valuable resource.

However, since artificial intelligence was still in its early stages, he also suggested Viettel develop, operate, and enhance its AI in Việt Nam.

Besides that, Thắng proposed that NVIDIA and Viettel work together on the two AI technology pillars of supercomputer infrastructure and human resource development.

In particular, Viettel offered a collaboration with NVIDIA to build a GPU-based supercomputer infrastructure project. The project will involve 1000 GPUs initially and scale up to 1000 GPUs by 2025. Viettel also proposed to establish a training centre for AI innovation and human resource development. The training centre would be located in Viettel's current training facility and utilise NVIDIA-designed tools and research.

Talking about the strategy for building effective data centres, Huang suggested that priority should be given to investing in centralised data centres instead of many small infrastructures.

He also shared with the Viettel AI team about creating a large Vietnamese language model, which is the basic technology for well-known generative AI today. Viettel plans to evaluate this as a product within reach in the upcoming years due to the rapid advancement of computational systems, which makes it easier to train large language models.

Viettel has been collaborating with NVIDIA in the field of artificial intelligence to speed up AI research and application in various fields such as Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Digital Twin, and Robotics. By joining NVIDIA's global partner network, Viettel has achieved an important milestone in implementing the national AI strategy, which will help bring Viettel's AI solutions to the international market. — VNS