The 2025 AIHPCcon supercomputing conference continued the theme of "Driving AI Development with Computing Power". The morning session was hosted by Taiwan AI Cloud and the Administration for Digital Industries, moda. It was the final event of this year's "AI International Technology Day" series, focusing on computing power infrastructure, model performance and urban applications, echoing the implementation of the new ten major construction projects for AI.
The afternoon session, co-hosted by Taiwan AI Cloud and the Tainan City Government, was themed "AI City," showcasing city-level AI initiatives. Through keynote speeches and the forum "AI City: Building a City-Level AI Innovation Ecosystem," the session comprehensively demonstrated Taiwan's strengths in AI computing power, model training, and AI Foundry, further empowering cross-domain integration of cities and ecosystems, accelerating the implementation of applications in transportation, healthcare, disaster prevention, and other fields, and forming a replicable and exportable Taiwanese AI development model.
Su Chen-kang, Executive Vice Chairman of the National Science and Technology Council, stated that the "Greater Southern New Silicon Valley Project" is accelerating the development of the AI semiconductor ecosystem through a three-pronged approach: building computing power, cultivating talent, and linking industrial fields. It also promotes the widespread adoption of computing power through the AI RAP generative AI application development platform. Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che, focusing on practical needs, pointed out that the surge in demand for disaster damage reporting and the 1999 service hotline during peak hours puts pressure on the administrative system. AI intervention can improve administrative efficiency, service quality, and municipal resilience. Hu Shu-bin, Co-CEO of ASUS and Chairman of the Taiwan Smart City Industry Alliance, proposed a "Three-Tier AI City Model," encompassing computing power platforms, municipal services, and industrial upgrading, aiming to help Tainan develop into a replicable and exportable model city.