Singtel and Weka, a global AI data and memory infrastructure provider, have signed a memorandum of understanding to build and deliver sovereign AI infrastructure solutions across Singapore and the broader Asean region. The partnership will create a comprehensive foundation to drive the adoption of artificial intelligence across critical infrastructure sectors.

The collaboration combines Singtel’s RE:AI sovereign AI cloud infrastructure, Paragon network orchestration platform and end-to-end managed services, with Weka’s NeuralMesh, a high-performance, software-defined storage system that ensures graphics processing units ( GPUs ) are continuously supplied with data to optimize their productivity and performance.

A sovereign AI cloud ensures that absolute jurisdictional, operational, and data control is maintained within a specific nation or region, unlike in standard public clouds where data and computing power often cross borders.

By removing storage bottlenecks and minimizing idle GPU time, NeuralMesh helps organizations maximize infrastructure efficiency, accelerate AI workloads and innovation while maintaining full control over their data.

Built to perform at scale 

Singtel will also integrate NeuralMesh as the high-performance data foundation for its GPU-as-a-Service. This provides governments and enterprises with a robust platform to develop, deploy and scale production-grade AI applications more rapidly, efficiently and securely.

“As sovereign AI adoption accelerates across Asean, governments and enterprises require infrastructure that is secure, compliant and built to perform at scale,” says  Singtel Digital InfraCo chief executive officer Bill Chang. “Modern AI is no longer limited by compute power alone. The real bottleneck is how quickly data can reach GPUs, making high-speed data architecture just as critical as the GPUs themselves.

“By partnering with Weka, we are addressing this challenge and strengthening our sovereign AI platform by bringing together trusted cloud infrastructure, advanced data capabilities and network intelligence, so that customers can deploy complex AI workloads with confidence.”

Across the region, demand is growing for AI environments that meet data residency requirements, regulatory alignment, and operational autonomy. Agentic and reasoning-based models are fuelling this demand, requiring microsecond latency, faster, more reliable access to large datasets, and consistent throughput that traditional storage architectures struggle to provide.

Future-ready infrastructure

Weka co-founder ad CEO Liran Zvibel adds: “Sovereign AI in the Asean region is not simply about where data is stored. It's about developing future-ready infrastructure that can support exascale AI innovation across the entire ecosystem. Singtel brings unmatched geographical reach, network capabilities, and operational trust to this partnership. Together, Weka and Singtel are delivering the secure AI infrastructure foundation that empowers Asean’s public and private sectors to build what’s next.”

Under the collaboration, Singtel and Weka will offer a Sovereign AI Factory as a managed service to governments and enterprises across Singapore and Asean. The service addresses a broad range of use cases, including national digital services, financial risk management, healthcare diagnostics, public safety, and smart transport and utilities operations.

Customers can choose from three flexible models: the Dedicated Sovereign Pod for single-tenant environments supporting highly sensitive workloads; the Regulated Multi-Tenant Sovereign Zone, which provides isolated, shared environments for regulated industries; and the Hybrid Sovereign Model, which integrates on-premises systems with sovereign cloud capacity.

This flexibility allows organizations to meet performance, regulatory and cost requirements while expanding their AI capabilities efficiently, say Singtel and Weka.