AI-native innovations to power Singapore’s industries

In line with Singapore’s aspirations to drive artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and deployment, Huawei Cloud launched the Huawei Cloud Singapore AI Pioneer Partner Ecosystem Alliance.

The initiative aimed to accelerate AI innovation “in Singapore, for Singapore” across several industries, such as public services, retail, education, fintech, transport and enterprise.

This would strengthen Singapore’s position as a leader in global AI adoption, creating a future-ready AI landscape where businesses and customers across every industry thrive.

This would be supported by Huawei Cloud and leading AI companies like YITU Technology, Weaver Network International, Sunline Holding, TrustDecision, Udesk, iFLYTEK, Neuxnet, Sefonsoft, and AiMall.

The announcement was made at the Huawei Cloud & AI Partner Summit Singapore 2025 held on November 27.

The event showcased Huawei Cloud’s investment in delivering a dynamic cloud experience for businesses in Singapore, as over 70 per cent of companies have actively adopted AI.

“Singapore’s digital landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation. Huawei Cloud is fully prepared to navigate this transformation alongside the nation and jointly shape an intelligent future for Singapore,” said Huawei Cloud Singapore’s Managing Director, Gigi Hu.

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Enabling digital transformation for businesses

The Huawei Cloud Singapore AI Pioneer Partner Ecosystem Alliance was developed to help businesses reduce workloads, improve efficiency, and accelerate digital transformation, enabled by AI.

As a member of the alliance, YITU’s Head of Global Solutions Sales, Zach Tang, shared that YITU would provide computer vision domain leadership and expertise in the Vision-Centric Multimodal Large Model.

This technology enabled high-precision, cost-effective intelligence to process data from cameras to advance solutions for public safety and smart city, noted Tang.

Another member, Weaver Network International’s Managing Director Ken Wei, shared the company’s key capabilities, including AI-powered agents, intelligent chatbots, and compliance tools, that help to automate workflows, streamline contract and invoice management, and enhance data analysis.

Toward financial modernisation

Since the alliance aims to target diverse industries, the financial sector was also considered by integrating companies that support financial management solutions.

Sunline’s Solution VP, Liang Yansui, highlighted the company’s AI-powered data platform, DataMind, enabled banks to unify and govern data, which was essential for financial modernisation and digital banking.

In terms of financial security, TrustDecision offered AI-powered risk intelligence, built with Huawei Cloud infrastructure, which helped to solve issues from legacy fraud detection systems in modern banking, shared TrustDecision’s Regional Sales Director, Lee Man Paul.

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Supporting cross-border enterprises

Udesk’s Global Business Director, Bruce Ke, pointed out that cross-border enterprises faced three core pain points: language barriers, fragmented channels, and compliance risks.

As a partner in the alliance, Udesk tackled these issues with AI, providing intelligent customer service and massive practical data.

Ke noted that the Udesk AI Agent leveraged Huawei Cloud’s computing strength, ecosystem resources, and language support, delivering full-stack intelligent service capabilities.

The AI agent supports over 120 million users and is trusted by more than 50,000 customers worldwide, shared Ke.

Another cross-border enterprise, with over 8 million developer teams worldwide, iFLYTEK provides mature multilingual capabilities across speech recognition, text-to-speech, and translation.

This allows for real-time multilingual subtitles for media, said iFLYTEK Group’s Country Manager, Jeffery Wang.

He noted that the company’s digital staff framework “allowed organisations to build agents that read documents, execute tasks and automate workflows such as tender evaluation”.

Wang added that such AI capabilities are already deployed in real projects globally and iFLYTEK aims to bring them into practical use cases in Singapore.  

For a better customer experience

The summit also featured presentations where alliance partners showcased their solutions and value for local enterprises.

Neuxnet’s Sales Director, Sean Wei, shared how Neuxnet enables intelligent automation and procurement workflows. The solutions, powered by Huawei Cloud, helped businesses optimise processes and enhance customer experience.

In another session, AiMall’s Founder and CEO, Chris Yang,  shared about the use of AiMall’s Phygital AI in the retail sector, which archived multimodal data from the physical world; analysed people, products, and places; triggered real-time digital alerts to frontline staff and automated physical-world responses.

Yang noted that this solution helped to reduce staff training costs by 70 per cent and cut shrinkage by over 60 per cent, as well as recaptured lost sales, which ultimately helped to improve the customer experience.

Sefonsoft’s Overseas Solution Presale Manager, Sunny Qin, also shared that its platform provides intelligent data query, analytics, and reporting, alongside tools for assistant card design, smart dispatch, and knowledge Q&A functions.

Qin noted that this solution helped support clients in obtaining trends and enabling fast decision making.

Seeing an AI-powered future

“To drive the next wave of Generative AI adoption, success will be defined by real-world business applications,” said Huawei Cloud APAC’s Chief Technology Officer, Wu Shiwei.

He added that Huawei Cloud’s AI-native infrastructure helped to support and accelerate this shift by “offering a complete, ecosystem-driven solution… [enabling] companies to rapidly deploy and scale impactful GenAI use cases”.

During his keynote, Wu highlighted Huawei Cloud’s plans to deepen its industry focus and drive innovation cloud architecture, methodologies, and tools, with the aim to “empower [its] customers to become pioneers of intelligence in their respective fields”.