G3 Global partners with China firms to build AI park

BEIJING: G3 Global Bhd has entered into a strategic collaboration with two Chinese companies to establish the first artificial intelligence (AI) park in Malaysia.

The collaboration between G3 Global Bhd and China’s SenseTime Group and China Harbour Engineering Co (CHEC) was agreed upon during Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s visit to SenseTime’s office, here, yesterday.

“The park will serve as the platform for the development of AI solutions in the areas of computer vision, speech recognition, natural language and humanoid/robotics.

“Ultimately, the park will be the regional epicentre for the development of technology and talent, data management, research and development and commercial ecosystem,” said SenseTime in a statement released after the prime minister’s visit.

Under the collaboration, G3 Global will, among others, be involved in facilitating and coordinating the establishment of the AI park, while SenseTime would build the supercomputing and AI platforms for research and cloud services.

Meanwhile, CHEC would provide its expertise in infrastructure engineering and construction services.

SenseTime founder Professor Xiao’ou Tang said the company was looking forward to working with the Malaysian government, academia and business sector to bring its technological expertise and experience to the country.

G3 Global executive chairman Wan Khalik Wan Muhammad said with the establishment of the AI park, Malaysia would be a step closer in realising the vision to be within the top 30 of the Global Innovation Index by 2025.