Malaysia Focus
21 articles in this section
AI Adoption Among Malaysian SMEs
AI adoption among Malaysian small and medium enterprises is a national policy priority, driven by MDEC programmes, financing platforms and industry committees aimed at productivity.
AI in Malaysian Aviation
The adoption of artificial intelligence across Malaysia's aviation sector — from airline fuel optimisation and airport biometrics to drone regulation and the emerging low-altitude economy.
AI in Malaysian Construction
AI in Malaysian construction spans building information modelling, AI-assisted safety monitoring, drone surveys and digital twins, backed by CIDB digitalisation programmes and adopted by contractors such as Gamuda and Sunway Construction.
AI in Malaysian Tourism
AI in Malaysian tourism covers the use of artificial intelligence across travel promotion, hospitality and aviation, including AI-powered marketing for Visit Malaysia 2026, trip-planning assistants and multilingual visitor services.
AI Parks in Malaysia
AI parks in Malaysia are designated research, commercialisation and infrastructure sites created or proposed to concentrate artificial intelligence development, from MRANTI's AI Park to national roadmap proposals.
AI Regulation in Malaysia
An overview of the Malaysian regulatory landscape governing artificial intelligence — covering PDPA, sectoral guidelines, national AI policy, and Malaysia's approach to the global AI governance debate.
AI Untuk Rakyat
AI Untuk Rakyat is Malaysia's free national AI literacy programme, launched in January 2024, which has introduced artificial intelligence fundamentals to over a million participants.
Artificial Intelligence in China
Artificial intelligence in China is a state-directed ecosystem of world-scale model developers, a domestic semiconductor supply chain built up under US export controls, and the world's largest base of generative AI users, guided by a policy programme known as AI Plus.
Artificial Intelligence in India
Artificial intelligence in India spans a fast-growing ecosystem of research institutions, IT services firms and startups, anchored by the IndiaAI Mission's subsidised compute programme, the country's DPDP data-protection framework and the 2026 AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.
Artificial Intelligence in Indonesia
Artificial intelligence in Indonesia is guided by the National AI Strategy 2020-2045 and a 2025-2029 roadmap, alongside major data centre investment and the Personal Data Protection Law.
Artificial Intelligence in Japan
Artificial intelligence in Japan combines a promotion-oriented AI Act, the Society 5.0 vision, leading robotics and semiconductor programmes, and sovereign-AI partnerships such as the SoftBank and OpenAI joint venture.
Artificial Intelligence in South Korea
Artificial intelligence in South Korea combines the world's leading memory-chip industry, a sovereign AI infrastructure build-out measured in hundreds of billions of dollars, and Asia's first comprehensive AI statute, the AI Basic Act in force since January 2026.
Artificial Intelligence in the Philippines
AI in the Philippines is governed by the National AI Strategy (NAIS-PH), the Data Privacy Act and sectoral regulator guidance, with no comprehensive AI statute enacted as of 2026.
AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
The AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region is the first cloud region operated by Amazon Web Services in Malaysia, launched on 21 August 2024 with three availability zones and a planned US$6.2 billion investment.
Digital Nasional Berhad
Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) is Malaysia's government-owned special purpose vehicle that built and operates the country's single wholesale 5G network, now operating alongside a second network under the national dual-network model.
Johor Data Centres
Johor data centres are the hyperscale computing facilities built in Malaysia's southern state of Johor, now Southeast Asia's largest concentration of AI data centres, driven by spillover from Singapore and the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone.
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is Malaysia's statutory regulator for the communications and multimedia industry, responsible for licensing, spectrum and online safety, and a central institution in the country's response to AI-generated harms such as deepfakes.
MDEC — Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation
MDEC (Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation) is the Malaysian government agency tasked with driving the country's digital economy — including AI adoption, digital talent development, and tech-sector FDI.
Mesolitica
Mesolitica is a Malaysian artificial intelligence company that develops the MaLLaM family of open-source Malay language models, together with Malaysian speech and multimodal AI tools.
Penang's Semiconductor and AI Ecosystem
Penang hosts one of Southeast Asia's most concentrated semiconductor clusters — an ecosystem of more than 350 multinationals built since 1972 around assembly, testing and advanced packaging, now repositioning for AI hardware demand.
Ryt Bank
Ryt Bank is a Malaysian digital bank backed by YTL Group and Sea Limited, launched in 2025 and marketed as the world's first AI-powered bank, built around its Ryt AI assistant and Malaysia's homegrown ILMU language model.