Treasure Global Inc. is planning to develop and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) cloud infrastructure in Malaysia.
The Malaysian technology company revealed its plans on March 24, and aims to develop a platform capable of supporting AI models up to one trillion parameters.
Development of the platform has already commenced and will see a phased deployment throughout 2025.
The data centers in which the GPU cloud offering will be hosted have not been provided. DCD has reached out for more information.
This will include the deployment of GPUs and will be optimized for large-scale, multi-modal AI workloads and be built on DeepSeek's technology. The GPUs the company plans to deploy have not been shared, but DeepSeek's R1 LLM was said to have been trained more cheaply than equivalent models on the Nvidia H800 AI GPUs, with inferencing done on Huawei's 910C AI chip, both of which are less powerful than the GPUs being used and deployed by US companies.
The cloud AI infrastructure deployment is being supported by a $16 million service agreement with V Gallant Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian AI provider, which was signed in 2024. According to Treasure Global, a large portion of this agreement will be directed to the platform. The service agreement runs until December 2025.
"The shift toward AI-native enterprises is accelerating, and the company is committed to enabling this transformation by building world-class infrastructure. This initiative not only expands our technological footprint but also unlocks new opportunities to create long-term value for our customers and shareholders,” said Carlson Thow, CEO of Treasure Global Inc.
V Gallant is a subsidiary of VCI Global Ltd and provides GPUs and software platforms for training LLMs, developing AI agents, and advancing machine learning and data analytics. In December 2024, the company was selected to provide AI hardware to a data center being developed by Hexatoff Group.
Malaysia has seen its data center market grow significantly over the last few years, taking overspill from capacity-constrained Singapore. The biggest markets are in Kuala Lumpur, Cyberjaya, and Johor Bahru. Operators in the country include EdgeConnex, NextDC, NTT, Bridge Data Centers, and Vantage, among others.
