
Singapore-based Synvo AI, a deep-tech spin-out from NTU’s MMLab, has signed a strategic partnership with Indonesia’s Sobat Bisnis Group (SBG) to commercialize context-aware enterprise AI across Indonesia and Southeast Asia. The alliance centers on Synvo’s Contextual Memory Engine, which promises long-term memory, multimodal context and privacy-preserving deployment across cloud, private cloud and fully offline environments—features designed for regulated industries and data-sensitive workloads. SBG, which has close ties to Indonesia’s Mayapada Group, will integrate Synvo’s stack into solutions for advanced document intelligence, cross-system workflow optimization and hybrid AI systems that preserve visual-language-model context while maintaining task-level accuracy. The partners have formalized their collaboration via an MoU and pitch it as a way to close the gap between cutting-edge multimodal research and real-world enterprise rollouts, with SBG providing distribution and integration muscle on the ground. If they execute, this could become a reference deployment model for regional players that want sophisticated, memory-rich AI agents but need strong guarantees around data sovereignty and on‑premise options.