Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia, with an area of 311,699 square kilometres (120,348 square miles) has a population of over 97 million and if you ever visit this beautiful country,you will soon appreciate that there are also over 65 million registered motorbikes, with many families having a motorbike for each family member. This article summarizes a number of research sources to give a sense of where Vietnam's leadership is in the field of AI – and all indications are its status is evolving and blossoming. Where is Vietnam in terms of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) companies, and how are they evolving their AI leadership position? According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, the revenue of the ICT industry in 2021 was $136,153 million USD, a solid increase compared to $124,678 million USD in 2020. It is also estimated that the ratio of Vietnam's value in ICT revenue reached 24.65%, a significant increase compared to previous years.

Identified as the key for further enhancing competitiveness and workforce reinforcement, AI has the potential to be included in various operation processes. One such field, AI in visual inspection – with computer vision and machine learning on the rise – has been becoming more popular thanks to the engagement of top players across industries. In the recent online sharing, experts from FPT Corporation, FPT Software, Landing AI, and Schaeffler discussed their visions for the future of'AI in Real-time Quality Inspection'. All parties emphasised on the use of data-centric approach to shorten AI training duration in machine learning and addressed critical issues faced by brownfields factories. Until just recently, factory owners were equipped with rule-based vision inspection, which required IT experts to write pages of rules for the algorithm to detect product defects.

Southeast Asia's leading IT firm FPT Software on Wednesday gave a public demonstration of autonomous driving technologies at Ecopark, an urban township located 20km east of Hanoi. The demo was carried out as the company had pledged earlier in April. The Yamaha electric golf car, after having been upgraded with FPT Software's latest autonomous technologies, completed a full journey of 4 kilometers around Ecopark without human interaction. The route was designed with five bus stops and various cross-sections to form a slightly challenging environment for the vehicle. As users booked the trip via a mobile app, the vehicle automatically calculated the most optimal route and priorized passengers in a chronological order.