H2O.ai, the leader in open-source generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has announced a strategic partnership with Singtel's Digital InfraCo to bring GenAI-as-a-Service (GenAIaaS) to organisations across Asia Pacific (APAC). This partnership brings together H2O.ai's best-in-class GenAI and Predictive AI with Singtel AI cloud's powerful and secure graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure to deliver a sovereign GenAI platform for private and public sector organisations with strict data protection needs. 'With our open source community, partnership ecosystem and unique mindset of co-creation with customers we are transforming large banks, telcos and public sector by leveraging their data, upskilling their people, and building custom GenAI and Predictive AI for solving problems and bettering life of citizens globally,' said H2O.ai Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Sri Ambati in a statement. Meanwhile, Singtel Digital InfraCo CEO, Bill Chang said: 'As organisations move toward AI-driven solu tions, our partnership with H2O.ai ensures that they have access to state-of-the-art GenAI solutions developed on RE:AI's cloud platform. 'Together, we are enabling businesses to innovate faster, enhance customer experiences, and optimise internal operations with the power of AI.' H2O.ai GenAI software suite will be integrated with Singtel's Paragon platform that powers Singtel AI Cloud, to enable customers to reduce time to develop and deploy AI use cases with optimal total cost of ownership (TCO). An existing customer of H2O.ai, Singtel is expanding to offer H2O.ai full stack AI service to be integrated with Singtel Paragon platform to offer an 'AI as a service' offering on Singtel GPU cloud. The unified AI as a service solution that bundles the needed GPU infrastructure will offer customers a cost-efficient full stack AI platform for GenAI and Predictive AI to address a wide range of robust Document AI business use cases. This collaboration between H2O.ai and Digital InfraCo marks a major step forward in bringing secure, scalable GenAIaaS to organisations across APAC while ensuring data sovereignty and compliance. c Source: BERNAMA News Agency