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Indosat cooperates with Nvidia delivering AI infrastructure

AuthorBTW Editorial

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PublishedMarch 1, 2024

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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH)，a company empowers people of Indonesia by providing leading digital telecommunication services, has taken a significant step towards positioning Indonesia at the forefront of the AI revolution by signing an agreement with Nvidia to adopt its full-stack AI platform. This strategic partnership, announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, underscores IOH’s commitment to driving innovation and technological advancement in the country. By leveraging its data centers, IOH aims to establish a sovereign AI platform that will serve as a catalyst for transformative change across various sectors. The collaboration with Nvidia is poised to provide Indonesia with access to cutting-edge GPU technologies, essential for building next-generation digital services and AI capabilities.

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Analysis

Through this collaboration, IOH subsidiary Lintasarta will play a pivotal role in delivering critical sovereign AI infrastructure and scalable AI cloud services based on Nvidia’s reference architectures. Additionally, Lintasarta will introduce GPU-as-a-service ( Deka GPU) to offer customers powerful AI capabilities tailored for high-demand computing tasks, further enhancing the technological landscape in Indonesia. Also read: Chipmaker Groq and a former AMP VP accuse Nvidia of unfair practises Bayu Hanantasena, CEO of Lintasarta , expressed his optimism about the collaboration, stating that it will empower the nation with state-of-the-art AI technologies and cloud services, driving economic growth, job creation, and technological innovation. IOH’s partnership with Nvidia is complemented by another significant collaboration announced at the Mobile World Congress. The operator has also signed a memorandum of understanding with Huawei, focusing on harnessing AI to optimize public cloud applications and fostering the development of AI talents.

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IOH and Nvidia aims to establish a sovereign AI platform, which provides Indonesia with access to cutting-edge GPU technologies.
Lintasarta will introduce GPU-as-a-service (Deka GPU) to offer customers powerful AI capabilities tailored for high-demand computing tasks, further enhancing the technological landscape in Indonesia.