Malaysia has become the focus of artificial intelligence-related investments by global technology giants.
Last month, Google announced a $2 billion plan to build data centers and cloud centers in the Southeast Asian country.
In addition, last month, Microsoft announced an investment of US$2.2 billion in the market “to drive Malaysia’s cloud and artificial intelligence transformation.”
Now ByteDance, the parent company of China-based social video app TikTok, is investing heavily in Malaysia and focusing on its booming artificial intelligence business.
It is reported ReutersThe country’s Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz posted on social media last week that ByteDance “plans to invest in artificial intelligence to make Malaysia an artificial intelligence center in the region, with a planned investment of approximately RM10 billion.” $2.1 billion.
Aziz wrote last week that he met with TikTok vice president Helena Loesch Discuss the development of TikTok in Malaysia. He added in the post that ByteDance plans to invest an additional RM1.5 billion to expand its data center in Johor.
As CNBC points out, training and deploying artificial intelligence models requires the use of large amounts of data and computing power, and the boom in global artificial intelligence services has led to an increasing need for large centers that can accommodate all this data.
CNBC quoted DC Byte’s 2024 Global Data Center Index as reporting that Johor Bahru, Malaysia, has become the fastest growing data center market in Southeast Asia.
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The company operates the popular Doubao AI chatbot in China and operates a range of other AI-driven products, from AI video production app Capcut to flagship social video app TikTok.
TikTok’s powerful recommendation algorithm powers its “For You feed”—“one of the platform’s defining features,” according to TikTok.
The algorithm is so valuable to ByteDance that it would reportedly prefer to shut down TikTok in the U.S. rather than sell the app if its legal challenge to U.S. “stripping or banning” laws fails.
Especially when it comes to music, Byte Beat has conducted extensive research through its artificial intelligence-generated music. Speech, Audio and Music Intelligence (SAMI) team.
As MBW reported in two well-publicized articles published in March, ByteDance has locked up several patent and trademark applications related to artificial intelligence music in the United States. Some of the topics covered include “Data Exploration” and “Music Generation”.
ByteDance also launched a machine learning-powered music production app called Moff over the past few years, and ripple – An AI-powered music-making app that turns hummed melodies into songs.
recent, Tik Tok It has been testing an AI song feature that uses a large language model to support lyrics generation.
Meanwhile, in Malaysia, TikTok’s parent company is about to inject more than $2 billion into artificial intelligence centers in the market, with the government’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) hoping to make Malaysia a key player in the global artificial intelligence market.
In April this year, it launched the AI Sandbox 2024 pilot program to create 900 Artificial Intelligence startups by 2026.
The initiative is backed by Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, which has become a key player in the training of artificial intelligence models through the artificial intelligence chips it makes. In December last year, Nvidia also reached a US$4.3 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure development agreement in the Malaysian market.
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