📋 Tender Overview
Since 2022, the program has attracted more than 750 solutions from over 20 countries and territories each year. The 2025 program focuses on the ViGen Project with an effort to create a high-quality open-source Vietnamese dataset to train, evaluate and thereby improve the efficiency of large language models (LLMs), helping AI models better understand culture, context and expressions in Vietnamese.
The project is expected to enhance the presence of Vietnamese in the AI ??development process, while contributing to the rapid and sustainable development of the digital economy.
ViGen originated from a tripartite cooperation between Meta Group, NIC and the organization "AI for Vietnam". In which, NIC plays the role of the managing, coordinating and ensuring the project is consistent with Vietnam's national goals.
AI for Vietnam is the project implementation partner with technical and financial support from Meta Group. Strategic partners include NVIDIA, Viettel, and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. The mission of VIC 2025 - ViGen project is to make AI models support Vietnamese naturally and comprehensively from the core to unlock the potential of AI applications in Vietnam. ViGen will build large-scale, high-quality open-source Vietnamese datasets to train and evaluate the capabilities of AI models.
The ViGen project also contributes to ensuring that AI development in Vietnam is consistent with Vietnamese cultural values ??and ethical standards, aiming to build a locally relevant and responsible open-source AI ecosystem.
Sharing about the Program's objectives, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung said that the Vietnam Innovation Challenge is a strategic program to seek innovative solutions worldwide to address important national challenges, towards a prosperous and sustainable Vietnam.
"For the program to be successful, it requires cooperation between the public sector, the private sector, and domestic and foreign partners to join hands in forming, testing, and implementing innovative initiatives for a prosperous Vietnam," the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized.
To support the project, Meta will contribute open-source datasets from its AI and Data for Public Good program, including insights on mobility and social connectivity, as well as training data from AI-powered population maps.
Professor Yann LeCun, Vice President, Chief AI Architect of Meta Group, who is known as one of the fathers of AI, commented: "The ViGen project and the Vietnam Innovation Challenge are not only about advancing technology, but also about building an inclusive AI future that honors and integrates Vietnam's unique cultural and linguistic heritage."
At the event, in addition to the ViGen Project, Meta and Deloitte also released a handbook for the public sector titled "Innovating in the Asia-Pacific Public Sector with Open Source AI: Unlocking Disruptive Potential with Llama".
This handbook will provide a roadmap for government agencies to effectively integrate open source AI technology. The combination of these initiatives aims to build a coherent AI strategy in Vietnam, benefiting both the public and private sectors.
