PM Anwar announced RM2 billion sovereign AI cloud investment to ensure Malaysia is not just a consumer but a leader in AI technology. Data must remain in-country. Huawei opened its first AI incubation centre outside China at TRX (13,638 sq ft). Earlier controversy around 3,000 Ascend chips was disavowed by MITI as not government-endorsed.
Deputy Minister Teo Nie Ching announced 3,000 Huawei Ascend AI chips for sovereign AIaaS/GPUaaS. Retracted within days after White House AI czar David Sacks commented 'the full Chinese stack is here.' Huawei denied selling Ascend chips in Malaysia. Meanwhile, Huawei opened first AI industrial incubation base outside China in KL. PM Anwar: 'Technology from anywhere, rules made in Malaysia.'
Gamuda Technologies unveiled Wira on May 20, 2026, a proprietary multimodal LLM built for Malaysian enterprise and government workloads. Wira scored 89.20% average on MalayMMLU (24,213 questions across 22 subjects), processes Bahasa Melayu plus 100+ languages, and was developed end-to-end by Malaysian talent from the Gamuda AI Academy. It deploys on Gamuda DNeX Cloud with air-gapped and connected options for high-security government environments.