Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) yesterday promoted Kaohsiung's Smart Lighthouse Project on the sidelines of the Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, California, highlighting its potential for partnerships with international tech firms.
As demand for computing power surges amid a shift toward generative artificial intelligence (AI) inference and "AI factory" development, the project is aimed at applying a "sovereign AI" approach to city governance, Chen told reporters at Nvidia GTC.
Sovereign AI refers to a country or region's ability to develop AI using its own infrastructure, data, workforce and industry networks.
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Under the initiative, Kaohsiung plans to work with Nvidia and Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, to establish centers using Nvidia’s compute unified device architecture to support demand for computing power and for software development, Chen said.
The city has met with foreign entities such as Amazon Web Services and AT&T to explore ways to integrate telecom services with Nvidia's vision-language model training results to address urban challenges such as traffic, flood prevention and environmental monitoring, Chen said.
He said that Kaohsiung also hopes to work with Nvidia to develop what he described as the world's largest city-scale large language model with local features.
Chen also spoke with Foxconn chairman Young Liu (劉揚偉) during a keynote speech delivered by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) and met with representatives from Taiwanese and US companies attending the event.
Chen is scheduled to meet academics at Stanford University to expand academic and technological exchanges after completing his visit to Nvidia GTC.
The event began yesterday and ends on Thursday.
Chen, who departed for the US on Wednesday last week, is scheduled to return to Taiwan on Friday.
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