IBM and the National University of Singapore (NUS) announced the intent to establish a strategic collaboration to establish a new AI research and innovation center. Based at the NUS School of Computing, the center aims to accelerate scientific research by leveraging IBM's full-stack AI infrastructure and open-source models. Part of the vision for the center is to feature the first such full-stack AI infrastructure system installed on a university campus in Asia-Pacific by IBM.
The future of AI research
The partnership envisions installing a full-stack AI-optimised computing infrastructure at NUS, including IBM AIU accelerators optimised for efficient inferencing AI workloads. It would operate on the IBM Watson data and AI platform and the Red Hat hybrid cloud platform.
Priya Nagpurkar, vice president of Hybrid Cloud and AI Platform at 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 AI and sustainable computing innovations, and we look forward to furthering this collaboration."
Empowering local deep-tech startups
The proposed collaboration aims to enable the deep tech entrepreneurship program, NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP), local startups, and small and medium-sized enterprises to access the AI Innovation Platform with Red Hat OpenShift AI and IBM's Watsonx platform.
