IBM và NUS công bố kế hoạch thành lập trung tâm nghiên cứu đổi mới AI mới

At the annual IBM Think Singapore 2024, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) announced an intention to engage in a strategic collaboration to establish a new AI research and innovation centre. The centre would aim to accelerate scientific research leveraging IBM’s full-stack AI infrastructure and a selection of open-source models, including IBM’s flagship series of Granite models. Based at the NUS School of Computing, the two envision that the centre will feature the first such full-stack AI infrastructure system installed on a university campus in Asia-Pacific by IBM.

(From left to right): Priya Nagpurkar, Vice President, Hybrid Cloud and AI Platform, IBM Research; Prof Liu Bin, Deputy President (Research & Technology), NUS; Catherine Lian, General Manager and Technology Leader, IBM ASEAN. Photo: IBM

The intention to work together demonstrates the strong commitment by Singapore’s research and innovation ecosystem to collaborate with industry leaders, such as IBM, to realise Singapore’s National AI Strategy. Equipped with full AI infrastructure and supported by the strong research expertise of NUS and IBM, the centre will aim to serve as an innovation platform for Singapore agencies, academic and research institutions, as well as companies to jointly conduct cutting-edge AI research with significant translational potential.

The parties envision that a cornerstone of the centre will be to advance a sustainability focused “open innovation” approach to developing AI technologies across the stack, to have a much broader potential to improve the quality and pace of adoption of new AI technologies. Additionally, the parties hope to work together to develop tools and methodologies that help build trust in AI.

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IBM and NUS propose to install a full-stack AI-optimised computing infrastructure at NUS that will include IBM AIU accelerators that are optimised for the efficient inferencing of AI workloads. The AI-optimised computing infrastructure would operate on the IBM watsonx data and AI platform and Red Hat hybrid cloud platform. The proposed collaboration would leverage NUS’ expertise to drive technological progress in AI, enabling more powerful, efficient, and versatile AI systems that can tackle increasingly complex tasks.

Priya Nagpurkar, Vice President, Hybrid Cloud and AI Platform, IBM Research, said, “We are pleased to take this first step toward collaboration with NUS to power breakthrough AI research. IBM and NUS share a common goal to enable innovations in AI and sustainable computing, and we look forward to furthering this collaboration.”

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