Malaysia’s Deputy Communications Minister Teo Nie Ching had reportedly said the country was using Huawei chips and servers for a groundbreaking AI project.

Malaysia declared it’ll build a first-of-its-kind AI system powered by Huawei Technologies Co. chips, only to distance itself from that statement a day later, underscoring the Asian nation’s delicate position in the US-Chinese AI race.

Malaysia’s government has reversed its plan to launch a nationwide AI system powered by Huawei chips only a day after touting the project.

Huawei has launched the Watch Fit 4 series and Watch 5 smartwatches in Malaysia. The Watch Fit 4 is priced from RM599.

Just one day after announcing plans to deploy 3,000 Huawei Ascend-powered AI servers by 2026, Malaysia's Deputy Communications Minister Teo Nie Ching abruptly retracted the statement on May 20. The reversal,

The chips, which would have been used in Malaysian servers to deliver AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) and GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), were to be provided by 2026. Malaysian AI infrastructu

KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday that the United States has pledged to “sympathetically” review Malaysia’s appeal for lower export tariffs, even as Putrajaya forges closer ties with China.

Malaysia's government did not develop, coordinate or endorse an artificial intelligence project involving a local company and Huawei Technologies, its trade ministry said in a statement on Wednesday,

The recent launch of an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure initiative, involving Skyvast Corporation and Huawei Technologies, was not developed, endorsed, or coordinated by the government, says the Investment,