Au Lac AI Alliance brings together 20 leading technology companies and institutes in Vietnam

In the context of the Prime Minister 's Decision 1131/QD-TTg recently issued, identifying artificial intelligence (AI) as the country's number 1 strategic technology, the Au Lac AI Alliance was launched, marking an important turning point in Vietnam's AI development journey.

The Alliance was established with the goal of developing Vietnamese large language models (LLMs), building an open AI community and promoting responsible AI applications, contributing to the realization of national AI sovereignty .

More than 20 first members of the Au Lac AI Alliance at the launching ceremony on June 20 in Hanoi. — More than 20 first members of the Au Lac AI Alliance at the launching ceremony on June 20 in Hanoi .

The first members to join the Alliance are leading technology units and startups such as MobiFone, VNPT, FPT, CMC, BKAV, Misa, MoMo, VNPAY, Zalo, AI For Vietnam, AI Hay, N2TP, Finhay, along with leading institutes and universities such as Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Academy of Posts and Telecommunications Technology, Academy of Cryptography Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, FPT University.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang, Politburo member, Director of Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council spoke at the launching ceremony of the Au Lac AI Alliance.

At the launching ceremony of the Au Lac AI Alliance, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang, Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council shared: “I clearly feel a spirit of determination and a historic vision in the birth of the Au Lac AI Alliance.

This name not only reminds us of the early days of building and defending the country, but also expresses the aspiration to build a Vietnamese-style artificial intelligence model, in the Vietnamese language, to serve the prosperous development and happiness of the nation.

In this new era, we must act now – now or never. To stand on the shoulders of giants, we must stand on our own feet. Vietnam has intelligence, creativity, and an overseas Vietnamese community that always wants to contribute to the development of the Fatherland.

We need to connect, create a strong enough innovation ecosystem, and at the same time perfect and build institutions, where AI is not just a technology, but a strategic tool for decision-making, governance, and serving people. I believe in Vietnamese intelligence, and believe that we will succeed – not just succeed, but succeed sooner and more strongly.”

Challenges for the Au Lac AI Alliance

Speaking at the launch event, Mr. Truong Gia Binh, Chairman of FPT Board of Directors and initiator of the Au Lac AI Alliance, emphasized three major challenges that Vietnam is facing in the AI era: protecting technological sovereignty, realizing the goal of becoming an advanced country by the 100th year of independence, and lacking investment resources compared to major powers.

FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh is the initiator of the establishment of the Au Lac AI Alliance.

The Alliance will be built on three principles: Consensus – Respect – Open Community. It will focus on three main areas:

Research and development: Members will jointly develop large language models (LLMs) capable of processing Vietnamese accurately, naturally, and in accordance with Vietnamese culture and identity. At the same time, build an open, transparent AI community where all individuals, organizations, and businesses can freely access and use public assets (source code, data, models) including for commercial purposes, to promote AI innovation and application in Vietnam.

Developing AI standards and policies: The Alliance will contribute to the development of AI-related policies, standards and codes of practice to ensure that AI products are safe, responsible, and compliant with Vietnamese ethical standards and laws.

Training: The Alliance will organize activities, training programs, and competitions to raise awareness, knowledge, and skills about AI for the community.

Strong commitment from members

At the panel discussion, the founding members of the Alliance made strong commitments to creating an AI technology platform with strong national identity.

Mr. Nguyen Van Khoa, CEO of FPT Corporation, committed to opening up all of FPT's core technology platforms, from LLM to Cloud AI, for members to develop together. FPT will also invest in open AI, support small businesses, research institutes, and schools to access data and tools, and accompany the Steering Committee of Resolution 57 to propose breakthrough policies, such as sandboxes for AI.

Meanwhile, Mr. Nguyen Tu Quang, Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director of BKAV Joint Stock Company, emphasized that AI is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Vietnam to rise to the group of leading technology countries. BKAV believes that Vietnam can achieve AGI (artificial general intelligence) if there is a connection of strength and assignment according to the strengths of each unit.

Mr. Nguyen Minh Tu, Zalo Technology Director, committed to contributing his experience in successfully building a pure Vietnamese AI model, system architecture and VMLU Vietnamese proficiency assessment set with more than 10,000 questions, supporting the AI Mastery Alliance and affirming Vietnam's technological position.

Au Lac AI Alliance was officially launched with the goal of contributing to the realization of national AI sovereignty.

VietGPT – Virtual assistant exclusively for Vietnamese people

Right at the launching ceremony of Au Lac AI Alliance, the Alliance proposed to develop a large Vietnamese language model - Au Lac LLM as a foundation for building AI applications for end users.

FPT has also announced plans to develop the VietGPT product - a virtual assistant dedicated to every Vietnamese person based on this language model.

VietGPT is a virtual assistant that deeply understands Vietnamese culture, society, language and thinking, meeting the needs of learning, exploring and improving productivity and work quality of Vietnamese people at a reasonable cost. At the same time, through interaction with users, products like VietGPT will help optimize and improve model capacity as well as share models, data and experiences with the community.

Mr. Le Hong Viet, General Director of FPT Smart Cloud shares about VietGPT.

Mr. Le Hong Viet, General Director of FPT Smart Cloud, FPT Corporation emphasized that in order for AI technology to become a core national strength, Vietnam needs to both participate in the global open source community and build its own open source community, thereby mastering technology and language.

FPT will connect domestic systems, opening a platform for Vietnamese enterprises to contribute and exploit VietGPT. This will be implemented this year.

Manh Hung

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