Singtel has officially launched RE:AI, a new AI cloud service designed to make AI more scalable, accessible and affordable to enterprises and the public sector. Through this AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) offering, Singtel is reducing the high costs and complexity associated with AI. Leveraging Singtel’s patented 5G MEC orchestration platform, RE:AI allows customers to deploy, manage, and scale AI applications with ease, further streamlining AI adoption.
At the launch, officiated by Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry, Gan Kim Yong, Singtel signed five Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with strategic partners, signaling its commitment to advancing AI adoption across sectors. These partnerships focus on key areas such as research and development (R&D), advanced manufacturing, AI ecosystem development, tech incubation, and workforce training, providing GPU access and a skilled talent pipeline.
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“Singtel’s AI cloud service is a turnkey platform that provides access to compute infrastructure on a developmental workspace. This will, in turn, support our National AI Strategy 2.0 strategy,” said Yong. “As a small resource-constrained country facing an aging population, our economic growth rests on our ability to overcome our labor and productivity challenges, and, in this regard, we believe that AI has the potential to unlock these constraints and drive the next wave of economic growth for Singapore.”
Singtel’s RE:AI focuses on rethinking, reimagining, and reinventing AI. It aims to empower startups, global enterprises, research agencies, governments, and AI developers to work smarter, innovate faster, and create greater impact.
“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,” said Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel's Digital InfraCo.
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Growing the AI Ecosystem through Strategic Partnerships
One of the MoUs signed involves a partnership with four companies, namely AlphaSense, H2O.ai, Hippocratic.AI, and Hive. These partnerships enable Singtel to deliver AI-driven solutions tailored for enterprises and government entities that require sovereign AI for sensitive data.
For example, Hive’s enterprise-grade AI models are designed to detect deepfakes, generative AI and other harmful content, providing best-in-class recognition technology. Through this partnership, Hive leverages Singtel and NVIDIA chips to enable customers to access its detection models.
Additionally, Hippocratic.AI offers an AI-powered virtual nurse designed to check on patients. By remembering all interactions with patients, the virtual nurse is capable of recalling past conversations and relevant details about each patient, facilitating a greater level of care.
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In the area of research and academia, Singtel has partnered with the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) and AI Singapore. In the advanced manufacturing sector, Singtel will be establishing an AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Advanced Manufacturing, driven by the goal of supporting 150 companies in their respective AI transformation journeys over the next three years.
Additionally, Singtel is launching an AI Acceleration Academy, in collaboration with AI Singapore, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and the National University of Singapore (NUS), to train over 10,000 employees in AI skills and prepare for an AI-driven future.
These partnerships align with Singapore’s National AI Strategy 2.0, which aims to enhance the country's position as a leader in AI innovation and deployment. Under this initiative, the government will invest over USD 1 billion in the next five years.
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