Decision 1131/QD-TTg recently issued by the Prime Minister has identified 11 strategic technology groups, strongly impacting competitiveness and national technological autonomy. In which, AI is prioritized to be ranked No. 1.
On June 20, 2025, more than 20 state agencies, businesses and universities coordinated to establish the Au Lac AI Alliance.
The Au Lac AI Alliance was established with the aim of developing large language models (LLM) capable of processing Vietnamese accurately and naturally, in accordance with Vietnamese culture and identity, thereby improving people's knowledge and promoting national economic development.
In addition, the Alliance aims to build an open and transparent AI community where all individuals, organizations, and businesses can freely access and use the Alliance's public assets, including source code, data, and models, including for commercial purposes, to arouse creativity, widespread AI application, and realize national AI sovereignty.
At the launching ceremony of the Au Lac AI Alliance, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang - Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council - emphasized: "The name Au Lac AI Alliance not only reminds us of the early days of building and defending the country, but also expresses the aspiration to build a unique artificial intelligence model of Vietnam, in the Vietnamese language, serving the prosperous and happy development of the nation. In the new era, we must act now - now or never."
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang said that to stand on a giant's shoulder, one's feet must be firm. In addition, Vietnam is intellectual, creative, and has a Korean community that always wishes to contribute to the development of the country.
"We need to connect and create a strong enough innovation ecosystem, while perfecting and creating institutions, where AI is not only a technology, but a strategic tool for policy making, governance, and serving people. I believe in Vietnamese intelligence and believe that we will succeed - not only succeed, but also succeed earlier and more strongly" - Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang said.
Mr. Truong Gia Binh - Chairman of the Board of Directors of FPT, who initiated the founding of the Au Lac AI Alliance - said: "The world is entering the AI era and Vietnam is also facing a great opportunity to rise up. But we are facing three big challenges."
According to Mr. Binh, the challenges include: Protecting technological sovereignty; Realizing the goal of becoming an advanced country by the year of 100 years of independence; Lack of investment resources, the superpowers invest hundreds, thousands of billions of USD each year in AI, Vietnam does not have equivalent resources.
"Therefore, the Au Lac AI Alliance was born as a solution to these challenges. The AI Alliance is not just an initiative, but a call for help" - FPT Chairman emphasized.
