University, Indosat and Nvidia launch Indonesian AI center

Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada have launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center in Yogyakarta. The partners describe it as Indonesia's first university-based AI technology center under the country's AI Center of Excellence initiative. The center gives UGM researchers and students access to NVIDIA's AI platform, software, models, development frameworks and mentorship through Indosat's GPU Merdeka GPU-as-a-service platform. Its initial projects cover tuberculosis screening, precision agriculture and disaster-response tools using satellite and sensor data.