Singtel Launches RE:AI, New AI Cloud to Democratise AI for Enterprises

Singtel has announced the launch of RE:AI, the company’s new Artificial Intelligence Cloud Service (AI Cloud) offering aimed at democratising AI to make it widely available to organisations. This gives enterprises and public sector customers affordable access to AI technologies that can seamlessly transform their operations without needing to invest or maintain in-house infrastructure and supporting resources.

The turnkey AI development and deployment platform will combine state-of-the-art AI compute infrastructure like, graphics processing units (GPUs) and storage and AI workspaces and tools, with diverse networks such as, 5G, and fixed or quantum safe networks. These will be delivered through Singtel’s patented orchestration platform, Paragon.

RE:AI will enable customers to deploy, manage, and scale their AI applications without having to worry about the overheads of complex infrastructure, thereby allowing them to innovate and take their productivity to next level.

Democratising AI with RE:AI

Singtel aims to democratise AI by working with strategic partners in five ways:

1. Creation of a research and development AI Cloud platform.
2. Facilitation of AI adoption for the advanced manufacturing sector.
3. Ecosystem development to accelerate the deployment of AI solutions.
4. Curation of tech incubation and acceleration programme for promising tech companies
5. AI skills training to empower the workforce.

Five Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) were signed with these partners in these areas, at the launch of RE:AI, which was officiated by Guest-of-Honour, Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry.

Bill Chang, CEO at Singtel’s Digital InfraCo, said, “Many enterprises and public sector customers have shown keen interest to bring AI into their operations. However, the high costs and long lead times for GPUs, the need for special environments to host them due to their intense energy utilisation, the complexity of AI technology and the lack of talent are key friction points in their respective journeys.”

He added: “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. 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. As we build on this ecosystem, we will attract global AI tech companies here to expand into the region with our market access. This is key to positioning Singapore as a regional AI.”

Supporting Growing Demand for AI

Singtel has been scaling its next-generation digital infrastructure and partnerships to support the growing demand for efficient, scalable and cost-effective AI solutions across industries. RE:AI will provide AI capabilities and tools through cloud-based platforms powered by Paragon.

Enterprises can access ready-made solutions at their fingertips to develop customised AI environments and workspaces for any industry within minutes with a few clicks. Enterprises can deploy AI at scale and speed, with models, tools and applications orchestrated and delivered over 5G, fixed or even quantum-safe networks for a multitude of use cases.

The launch of RE:AI and partnerships are part of Singtel’s strategy to accelerate digital transformation for enterprises, starting with digital infrastructure and scalable AI solutions. One of the early initiatives include the development of a new generation of sustainable, hyper-connected AI-ready data centres through its Nxera data centre arm. Nxera is on track to becoming one of the world’s largest independent data centre players with advanced liquid cooling capabilities and support for next-generation GPUs.

There have also been recent tie ups with global and local ecosystem partnerships such as Hitachi Group in Japan, the establishment of a GPU cloud alliance with Vultr and GMI Cloud in the US and Nscale in Europe as well as collaborations with Bridge Alliance, AIS, Telkom Group and Maxis to bring Singtel’s AI Cloud offerings to enterprises in the region.