Industry Findings: National strategic commitments to sovereign capability and domestic AI infrastructure have made sovereignty and local model development a core procurement lens; Vietnam’s public and private roadmap activity around AI infrastructure and “sovereign AI” themes (reflected in national events and policy statements across 2024) signals that buyers will prefer suppliers who can deliver on-shore training, language tuning and data governance assurances.
Industry Progression: Industry investments are turning planning into capability: a high-profile consortium led by FPT commenced work on a large AI centre in southern Vietnam (reported Aug-2024), and NVIDIA announced the opening of a Vietnam R&D centre (Dec-2024). Those two developments materially broaden local R&D, training and model-engineering capacity and reduce friction for enterprises and research labs to run larger, language-tuned experiments and pilot production systems in-country. Dec-2024.
Industry Player Insights: Domestic provider moves and platform launches are expanding Vietnam’s supplier options: FPT’s consortium beginning construction of a large AI centre (Aug-2024) and FPT’s continued platform and sovereign-AI activity (announcements through 2024–2025) give local integrators and ISVs tangible compute and product platforms to build on. These in-market company developments enable Vietnamese buyers to access locally-tuned models and managed MLOps with residency and compliance guarantees — speeding enterprise adoption in finance, manufacturing and government projects.