Singtel unveiled its fourth partnership in the last three weeks to expand the reach of its GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) offering, striking a deal with US-based GMI Cloud. The two companies aim to combine their respective GPU resources and infrastructure to extend their footprint into previously untapped markets. Separately, Singtel has signed an agreement with Norway-based Nscale to share their respective data centre resources to run enterprise customers’ AI workloads. Singtel also recently forged deals with Hitachi and the Bridge Alliance covering GPU cloud services.
The increasing adoption of demanding applications such as AI among enterprises has led to growing demand for GPUaaS, and operators are forming partnerships to gain their share of this emerging pie. SK Telecom, another operator in the Asia Pacific region, recently announced a partnership agreement with Lambda, a GPU cloud company founded by AI engineers. The two companies agreed to establish a large-scale Nvidia GPU cluster to support AI cloud business opportunities in South Korea.