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The service claims to make AI adoption easier and more affordable for businesses
Singaporean telco Singtel has launched RE:AI, a new cloud-based service designed to make artificial intelligence (AI) easier for businesses and public sector organisations to access and use.
Launched yesterday, the service provides affordable AI solutions without the need for companies to invest in expensive infrastructure or specialist skills.
The AI cloud solution offers customers access to high-performance computing, data storage, and AI tools, all managed through Singtel’s Paragon platform. This, combined with Singtel’s network infrastructure, including 5G and quantum safe networks, allows enterprises to manage and scale AI applications across their organisation.
“With the launch of RE:AI, we’re significantly reducing entry barriers, making AI easily accessible to enterprises, government agencies, research communities and academia – the more people have access to AI, the more innovation is bound to emerge, which in turn fuels growth,” said Singtel’s CEO Bill Chang in a press release.
“RE:AI will foster a dynamic ecosystem of partners with distinctive capabilities and platforms to accelerate AI adoption to drive innovation and growth in Singapore and the region, sustainably,” he continued.
The launch fits with Singtel’s broader plans for digital transformation. Back in August, the company announced a strategic partnership to bring its GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offerings to business across Southeast Asia. Regional telcos AIS, Maxid and Telkomsel are the first to take up the offering.
Singtel is also expanding its AI infrastructure through global partnerships, and is developing new AI-ready data centres via its Nxera arm. In June this year, Singtel became a founding member of the Global Telco AI Alliance, along with Deutsche Telekom, SK Telecom, e&, and SoftBank. The joint venture will develop multi lingual Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically designed to meet telco needs, in areas such as improving customer interactions via digital assistants and chatbots. The LLMs will be tailored to the needs of the five companies in their respective markets, allowing them to reach a combined customer base of around 1.3 billion people in 50 countries.
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