Singtel has signed a deal with GMI Cloud for its GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering.
GMI Cloud, is a company already offering GPUaaS from data centers in Asia Pacific. The two companies have formed a "strategic collaboration" that will see them combining their GPU resources and infrastructure.
GMI Cloud currently has five data center locations including two in Taiwan and one in Thailand. Its GPU platform will be integrated with Singtel's Paragon platform, enabling access to Singtel's Nvidia H100 GPU capacity in Singapore.
Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel’s Digital InfraCo and Nxera, said: “We've been developing next-generation digital infrastructure and partnerships to support the growing demand for scalable, efficient, and cost-effective solutions across industries for compute-intensive workloads. Collaborating with GMI Cloud expands capacity and availability zones in Asia Pacific, complementing our own GPUaaS points of presence. This will give enterprises the flexibility and scalability they need as they harness supercomputing power to accelerate innovation.”
Alex Yeh, CEO of GMI Cloud, added: "Our collaboration with Singtel marks a significant milestone in democratizing AI infrastructure across Asia Pacific. GMI Cloud's expertise in providing scalable, telecom-optimized GPU solutions complements Singtel's robust network perfectly. Our flexible deployment models and experience with high-volume, low-latency workloads position us uniquely to support the telecommunications industry's AI initiatives."
Singtel first revealed plans for its GPUaaS offering in March 2024, stating at the time that it would be powered by Nvidia H100 GPU-powered clusters that are operated in existing upgraded data centers in Singapore. The company partnered with Nvidia in January 2024 to bring artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to an undisclosed number of its Nxera data centers.
In addition, Singtel will be “among the world's first“ to deploy GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips.
Since then, it has signed agreements with the likes of Nscale, Bridge Alliance, and Vultr to expand its GPUaaS offering.
The Nscale partnership is set to see Nscale gain access to Singtel's GPU capacity, while Singtel will provide data center capacity to Nscale and will have access to Nscale's AMD and Nvidia accelerators in Europe.
The agreement with Bridge Alliance will see it bring its member operators to the Singtel GPUaaS, helping them with their go-to-market strategies.
Singtel and Vultr made a deal in March 2024 to support the development of AI factories for model training and inference using Vultr’s cloud GPU platform, powered by Nvidia, which will integrate with Singtel’s Paragon platform to leverage Singtel’s Nvidia H100 GPU capacity in Singapore for Vultr’s customer workloads.
