Today, the State Government of Selangor, announced the launch of Teraju AI Selangor. It is a joint initiative to help state government agencies in Selangor build and implement custom AI solutions through the Selangor Technical Skills Development Center (STDC) and Google Cloud. This initiative is aimed at real-world challenges to benefit citizens and communities.
Teraju AI Selangor is funded by the State Government of Selangor, which will enable state agencies to potentially enhance public services in areas like citizen communications, education, healthcare, transportation, and physical infrastructure maintenance, and advance projects that boost tourism and agricultural output. Under the project, the government has also invested in an AI innovation sandbox, a first of its kind in Malaysia's public sector.
Established by STDC and Google Cloud, the sandbox will provide participating agencies with funded access to Google Cloud’s fully integrated AI technology stack for up to six weeks. With access to these capabilities via a dedicated and secure Google Cloud environment, agencies can rapidly build their own gen AI and agentic AI solutions. This includes:
- Fully managed, AI-optimized infrastructure that offers a faster, more energy-efficient, and cost-effective way for organizations to train and serve complex AI models at scale, by combining specialized, high-performance hardware like Google Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) with open source-based orchestration software like Google Kubernetes Engine;
- Vertex AI, an all-in-one AI development platform that makes it easy for organizations to customize AI models and integrate them into applications. This includes an interface for users without programming expertise to create and deploy AI agents. With more than 160 available model types and sizes in its Model Garden—including Google’s Gemini 2.0 models, Anthropic’s Claude models, and Meta’s Llama models—Vertex AI gives organizations the flexibility to choose the model that is best suited for their needs and tune the model using content filters and features like grounding to ensure it delivers safe and trustworthy responses;
- BigQuery, a unified data management and analytics platform that makes it easier for organizations to organize and govern multimodal data—such as information captured in databases, images, documents, and videos—that is needed for training and grounding AI models;
- Gemini Code Assist, an AI-powered tool that developers can converse with for personalized coding suggestions and guidance, accelerating their development of digital applications.
Agencies participating in Teraju AI Selangor will be enrolled in a full-day workshop sponsored and conducted by STDC and Google Cloud. During this workshop, agencies’ AI practitioners and developers will receive tailored, hands-on training, enabling them to identify strategic use cases that can be addressed using AI and build at least one AI solution prototype.
After six weeks, the agencies will be required to demonstrate working solutions to a panel from the State Government of Selangor, STDC, and Google Cloud, who will evaluate these solutions’ functionality and readiness for implementation. Solutions with the highest potential to benefit Selangor’s citizens and economy will be showcased at the Teraju AI Selangor graduation ceremony later this year. Further funding may also be provided by the State Government of Selangor to facilitate their full-scale implementation.
Teraju AI Selangor aims to drive the development and implementation of AI-driven digital solutions across various aspects of the Selangor State Government administration. It will also involve key agencies like Media Selangor and Air Selangor.
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