Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison
Nvidia is the technology backbone of Indonesia's sovereign AI strategy, with Indosat as the primary delivery vehicle. GPU Merdeka (Nvidia-powered AI cloud) and the national AI CoE position Indosat as Indonesia's AI infrastructure leader, transforming its telecom model.
Led Indonesia's sovereign AI initiative Sahabat-AI using Nvidia NeMo; co-building Indonesia AI Center of Excellence with Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, and GPU Merdeka cloud service
Notes
sovereign-ai/telecom subtype. Sahabat-AI (Nvidia NeMo, Llama 3 fine-tuned for Bahasa Indonesian) launched November 2024 with Jensen Huang present. AI CoE with full-stack Nvidia Blackwell infrastructure launched July 2025. Indosat is named as primary telecom/sovereign partner.
Milestones
- Indosat and Nvidia launch Sahabat-AI, Indonesia's first sovereign AI platform
Indosat and Nvidia launch Sahabat-AI at Indonesia AI Day 2024 — a Bahasa Indonesian-optimized LLM built on NVIDIA NeMo and fine-tuned from Llama 3, with Jensen Huang personally attending the announcement.
→ blogs.nvidia.com - Indonesia AI Center of Excellence launched with full-stack Nvidia Blackwell infrastructure
Indosat, Cisco, and Nvidia establish Indonesia's national AI Center of Excellence with full-stack NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, and GPU Merdeka sovereign AI cloud service reaching 28 ISVs and startups.
→ blogs.nvidia.com