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On June 1, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam National Innovation Center (NIC), Google Cloud, Ho Chi Minh City Creative Startup Center (SIHUB), Singapore Business Development Agency (EnterpriseSG) and Indonesias Ministry of Communications and Digital Affairs (Komdigi) announced the expansion of cooperation, establishing an innovation corridor for AI startups in Southeast Asia, while connecting the region with the Valley. Silicon. The program features an in-person bootcamp in California, where founders will participate in technical immersion sessions at leading technology hubs, including Googles Mountain View and San Francisco campuses, and connect directly with venture capital clusters in the Sand Hill Road and Palo Alto areas. This in-depth experience helps startups validate their product capabilities and optimize their solutions to global standards, while building collaborative relationships with peer founders and establishing connections with key organizations - factors that play a key role in scaling internationally. The program provides qualifying startups with many distinct advantages, designed to accelerate high-level product development capabilities and create market impact right from the early stages. Download the AI Startup Innovation Corridor that will help founders receive training at leading technology centers. Startups will have access to Google Clouds unique comprehensive AI ecosystem, including Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), Agentic Data Cloud, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Google Antigravity. At the same time, through the Google for Startups Cloud Program, startups can receive up to 350,000 USD in cloud credits to support the entire process of training, tuning and operating safe AI agents with an authentic database. In addition, through in-depth hands-on training courses held at Google Developer Space, NICs Hoa Lac campus and Hanoi branch, SIHUB headquarters and Garuda Spark Innovation Hub (GSIH), the The founder and his team will be equipped with advanced skills in important areas such as agent programming, context engineering for AI, operating large language models and coordinating multi-agent systems. Mr. Vu Quoc Huy, Director of the National Innovation Center (NIC), said: The AI for the Future initiative launched by NIC and Google has supported more than 500 Vietnamese startups. Following these results, Google for Startups Accelerator: Dong South Asia will act as a bridge between pioneering technology startups in Vietnams priority fields and partners in Singapore and Silicon Valley. By promoting cooperation in advanced technology areas such as agentic AI and embodied AI, we are contributing to transforming research achievements into a new generation of solutions for business and industry, thereby enhancing national competitiveness and promoting market productivity growth. school./.Minh Ngoc
