ACE Malaysia 2026 Highlights Local AI for Businesses

ACE Malaysia 2026: Agentic Computing at the Edge brought together Malaysian businesses and developers at Asia School of Business in Kuala Lumpur on 17 October to explore practical local AI applications. The event featured contributions from GIGABYTE, NVIDIA, EMARQUE, and Developer Kaki, covering everything from AI agent development to real-world deployment across industries including healthcare, legal services, and robotics.

On-site commercial activity was notably strong, with 18 units of the GIGABYTE AI TOP ATOM sold during the event, reflecting tangible market demand for local AI infrastructure among Malaysian organizations, the event organizer said.

ACE Malaysia 2026 Recap

ACE Malaysia 2026 Showcases Local AI Applications For Businesses And Developers

Developer Kaki opened the seminar by addressing why agentic AI is generating interest in local computing environments. The session highlighted that AI agents making repeated model calls and interacting with sensitive company systems make data control and usage costs critical considerations for deployment decisions. NVIDIA followed with a presentation on local AI agent development using the NVIDIA DGX Spark, covering tools for building agents, approaches to securing system access, and methods for scaling workloads across multiple machines.

GIGABYTE presented its AI TOP portfolio and how different systems support varying business and development needs, followed by a live demonstration of local AI in action; EMARQUE and Developer Kaki then guided attendees through integrating local AI into everyday business operations, covering use cases such as internal knowledge search, management reporting, financial document processing, and coding assistance.

The seminar also demonstrated how to build a distributed large language model (LLM) environment across multiple AI TOP ATOM systems, covering cluster setup, deployment considerations, and workload assessment for multi-system configurations. Practical applications showcased at the event included an AI assistant integrated with AutoCount accounting software and a robot-arm simulation project from Australia’s Queensland University of Technology, both powered by GIGABYTE AI TOP ATOM and NVIDIA Isaac Lab.

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The afternoon program shifted to hands-on development, with 50 participants taking part in the ACE Malaysia Mini Hackathon. Teams were challenged to build working applications addressing real-world problems using AI inference running locally on GIGABYTE AI TOP ATOM systems. Participants were encouraged to explore AI agents, document retrieval, vision, speech, and automation.

Omega Vision claimed first place with Clinic Scribe, an application that automatically documents conversations between doctors and patients to improve healthcare efficiency and reduce errors. Hackathon King(s) took second place with Sentry, a human-in-the-loop incident-response agent that uses existing cameras to detect, verify, and escalate potential incidents for human review.