HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nestled along the bustling Ton Duc Thang Street, Le Méridien Saigon boasts a prime location in the heart of the financial district, making it one of the most prominent thoroughfares in the city. With over 50% of its rooms offering stunning views of the Saigon River and the iconic Ba Son Bridge, Le Méridien Saigon is undoubtedly a premier destination for luxurious relaxation and culinary experiences, especially with Tet Binh Ngo just around the corner.

A Destination for an Elevated Getaway at Le Méridien Saigon’s Suite Collection

The hotel features a total of 344 meticulously designed accommodations, more than half of which provide breathtaking views of the Saigon River and the vibrant urban life, ensuring that every moment of your stay is extraordinary. The river-facing rooms are thoughtfully crafted to enhance the beauty of each scenic vista, offering guests a relaxing ambiance and stunning views both day and night. This truly is the perfect piece that elevates your relaxation experience!

Le Méridien Saigon proudly showcases over 51 luxurious suites, ranging from 55 to 68 square meters, featuring modern and elegant designs. The standout Presidential Suite, sprawling across 200 square meters, offers a unique experience for those who appreciate the finer things in life. This suite has become a preferred choice for many luxury brands for private events, thanks to its opulence, absolute privacy, and ability to meet the stringent standards of top-tier brands.

An Essential Experience for a Wonderful Tet Getaway

At Le Méridien Saigon, guests will not only enjoy luxurious accommodation but will also experience one of the few 5-star hotels with all restaurants and bars recognized for their high-profile accolades within the culinary industry. This Tet Binh Ngo, Le Méridien Saigon proudly continues its “Waves of Flavor” event series at the Latest Recipe buffet restaurant, providing diners with an impressive space and distinctive ingredients.

This year’s festive culinary narrative will revolve around the unique Goi Phat Tai (Yusheng) made from salmon, offering a meaningful and delightful experience for the spring celebration. Notably, Goi Phat Tai will be an essential dish during this Tet, ensuring guests enjoy a perfect welcoming of the new year.

Additionally, the BARSON cocktail bar & lounge will ring in the new year with Episode 6 of the series “Nights of the Best” – an exceptional event series featuring guest bartenders from Asia’s 50 Best Bars. This initiative not only brings success but has also helped BARSON earn prestigious awards such as Tatler’s Top 20 Best Bar and a spot on Men’s Folio’s DrinkIn Hot List.

Celebrating the New Year with Fireworks Views

Experience the delight of a buffet featuring spectacular fireworks views during the New Year’s Eve celebration at Latest Recipe, located on the hotel’s 9th floor.

Join us at Le Méridien Saigon to savor a perfect blend of elegance in accommodation and cultural depth in gastronomy, where every vacation is elevated into a memorable journey.

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Story highlights

• AI Singapore and Dell Technologies are bringing the SEA-LION model to AI PCs and edge devices
• The collaboration enhances Southeast Asian language models for efficient performance on lightweight infrastructure
• Running models locally empowers organisations with offline capabilities, enhanced privacy and lower costs
• Optimised infrastructure democratises access to culturally relevant AI innovation across the region

SINGAPORE, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AI Singapore (AISG) is working with Dell Technologies to enhance its SEA-LION (Southeast Asian Languages in One Network) family of open-source large language models (LLMs). The organisations are testing and validating SEA-LION models across various Dell AI PCs and edge infrastructure, supporting AISG’s efforts towards building models that are resource-efficient and deployable on lightweight setups.

Why it matters

Global language models often prioritise English, leaving gaps in their ability to address the linguistic and cultural nuances of Southeast Asia. SEA-LION bridges this gap by training open-source models on a vast, high-quality corpus of region-specific data. This approach embeds local linguistic characteristics, enabling hyper-local multilingualism and fostering innovation tailored to the region. As an open-source initiative, SEA-LION also democratises AI by reducing the high costs associated with foundational model training. Its permissive licensing encourages community contributions, supports regional control and provides an accessible alternative to proprietary systems.

Dell leverages its specialised expertise in infrastructure optimisation to help AISG ensure quantised models, like SEA-LION, can be deployed on edge devices. Dell’s powerful, resource-efficient AI PCs deliver seamless performance even in resource-constrained environments.

Demonstrating real-world applications

AISG’s Voice Transcriber for Southeast Asian Languages is integrated with OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, powered by the SEA-LION model and deployed on Dell AI PCs. This Voice Transcriber provides real-time transcription of Southeast Asian languages for chatbots, reporting apps and multilingual communication tools, addressing growing demand. The technology enables customers to run LLMs directly on their devices, operating fully offline to ensure privacy, speed and reliability for enterprise applications. 

Future aspirations

AISG aims to continue advancing SEA-LION by expanding its modalities to include robust audio and speech understanding, improving its linguistic accuracy and enhancing resource efficiency for deployment on a wider range of infrastructure. The work also lays a foundation to support the development of agentic AI capabilities, enabling advanced AI agents to perform complex, cross-sector tasks across Southeast Asian languages and contexts.

Perspectives

“SEA-LION’s transformative understanding of 11 Southeast Asian languages and cultural nuances requires practical application,” said Andy Sim, vice president and managing director, Singapore, Dell Technologies. “This collaboration demonstrates that this sophisticated, culturally intelligent AI can run efficiently on laptops and edge devices. Together, we are democratising AI in Southeast Asia and are fostering a future where advanced AI is accessible to all.”

“This collaboration is a key step in realising our vision for SEA-LION – models that are not only local and culturally relevant but also resource-efficient enough to be deployed on the edge,” said Dr. Leslie Teo, senior director, AI Products, AI Singapore. “By running fully featured LLMs directly on Dell devices, we provide enterprises with privacy and lower cost alternatives while remaining responsive and reliable.”

About Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) helps organisations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the AI era.

About AI Singapore
AI Singapore (AISG) is a national programme launched by the National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore, to catalyse, synergise and boost Singapore’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to power our future digital economy. AISG will bring together all Singapore-based research institutions and the vibrant ecosystem of AI start-ups and companies developing AI products, to perform use-inspired research, grow the knowledge, create the tools, and develop the talent to power Singapore’s AI efforts. AISG is driven by a government-wide partnership comprising NRF, Smart Nation Group (SNG), Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Economic Development Board (EDB), Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG), amongst others.
For more information on AI Singapore, please visit https://www.aisingapore.org.

About SEA-LION
SEA-LION is one of two national LLMs under Singapore’s S$70M National Multimodal Large Language Model Programme (NMLP), supported by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore. More information on SEA-LION is available here: https://sea-lion.ai/

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HONG KONG, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The AI boom continues to gain momentum. As institutions predicted that 2026 will be a pivotal year for AI applications transitioning from “technical verification” to “commercial promotion.”

According to China Fortune Securities, this shift is primarily driven by three key turning points: First, the gradual maturation of technology, with many large-scale models now equipped with capabilities such as robust tool invocation, multi-modal understanding, and autonomous planning. Second, continuous policy support, as the government advocates for the “AI+” initiative, emphasizing the formation of commercial applications. Third, resonance in market demand, spanning from cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the business sector to widespread adoption in the consumer market^[1].

Against this backdrop, many Chinese companies are turning their attention to overseas markets, exporting China’s AI capabilities to establish a differentiated competitive advantage against international rivals. Fushi Tech is one such example.

Fushi Tech, an ecosystem company under the Hong Kong-listed firm YEAHKA(9923.HK), positions itself as a global AI service provider to merchants. It’s currently serving clients across Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, etc., offering services including store operations, membership management, and payment management to merchants worldwide.

Johnson Tan, Vice President of Fushi Tech, previously noted in an interview that the company began increasing its AI R&D investments in 2023, leveraging AI innovations to empower business decision-making and enhance operational efficiency.

In 2025, Fushi Tech’s AI products began to materialize. In March of that year, the company announced the launch of an AI Agent for the F&B industry in Southeast Asia, followed by another AI Agent product called AI SHOP.

Currently, Fushi Tech’s core product portfolio includes AI CRM and AI SHOP. AI CRM aggregates massive merchant and membership data, unlocking significant commercial value. Upcoming innovative features include natural language interaction for generating customer acquisition pages. For instance, merchants can simply describe their products, services, and conversion goals, and the system will leverage AI technologies like natural language processing to automatically create and deploy customer acquisition pages for direct marketing use. This represents not just a tool upgrade but also an Agent-powered solution that helps merchants respond agilely to market demands, shortening the distance from insight to business growth.

AI SHOP, on the other hand, dynamically generates product categories based on user descriptions in familiar languages, creating a personalized shopping experience. The entire process allows seamless switching between category scenarios, anticipates consumer needs in advance based on customer preferences and behavioral data, and proactively recommends optimal shopping combinations to enhance sales conversion rates.

It has become a consensus among many industry insiders that 2026 is a critical year for agents to “create economic value.” Tang Jie, a professor at Tsinghua University and founder of ZhiPu, recently highlighted three factors that will determine the future trajectory of agents: value rigidity, cost control, and development speed. He emphasized that the primary factor is whether Agents can address genuinely high-value human needs. Secondly, implementation costs must be controllable to ensure commercial viability. Lastly, in an era of rapid iteration for large-scale models, “competing on speed and time” is crucial, as companies need to quickly validate and capture market opportunities within limited time windows^[2].

In terms of results, Fushi Tech currently serves over 220 brands, more than 34,000 merchants, and over 40 million customers. With the support of AI, the merchant retention rate exceeds 90%, far surpassing the customer retention rates achieved through traditional marketing methods.

Public information indicates that Fushi Tech has completed multiple rounds of financing, with investors including SF SoFast and Cowin Capital, among other well-known domestic investment institutions ^{[3, 4]}. It is reported that Fushi Tech has invited Mr. Zeng Zijian to join the company and lead its financial management, financing, and capital market operations. Previously, Zeng worked at Goldman Sachs and RedNote.

In terms of market strategy, Fushi Tech will continue to delve deeper into the application scenarios of AI technology, both internally and externally, to further solidify its AI R&D achievements and rapidly expand its overseas business scale.