UAE's Presight to boost applied AI and digital transformation initiatives in Vietnam

The signing ceremony took place in Dubai on October 28 during Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's working session with businesses from the two countries.

As part of the agreement, Presight and Viettel AI will enhance collaboration to leverage technology, data, and innovative approaches to address challenges related to transportation, safety, and environmental impacts. Key areas of collaboration include digital development initiatives, enterprise and GenAI development, customer and industry-tailored big data analytics solutions, deployment of AI-powered solutions for enterprises and smart cities, and collaboration on the AI workforce.

At the meeting, Chinh said that Vietnam and the UAE are increasingly strengthening connections via telecommunications and fibre optic cables and may soon connect more closely through AI.

Thomas Pramotedham, CEO of Presight, said, "We are excited to embark on this strategic collaboration with Viettel AI. By combining our expertise and resources in Applied AI, we aim to drive significant advancements in digital transformation initiatives. Viettel AI excels in various aspects of data analytics and NLP, and I am grateful that Presight, together with Viettel, has the opportunity to contribute to Vietnam's progress towards digital transformation."

Nguyen Manh Quy, CEO of Viettel AI, said, "With Viettel AI's research capabilities in the fields of AI, big data, robotics and digital twin, and our experience in deploying many national AI platforms and projects of Viettel, combined with Presight's market understanding and advanced technology, we are confident that we will create breakthroughs in AI. In particular, focusing on developing products and services using native languages will help us bring better experiences to users in each country."

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