17 MAY 2024, SHAH ALAM – OCK Group Berhad(“OCK” or the “Group”), Malaysia's largest telecommunications network solutions provider, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary OCK Digital Sdn. Bhd. (“OCK Digital”), has entered into a strategic partnership with SenseTime (“SenseTime”), a leading AI software company. This collaboration aims to leverage SenseTime’s market-leading artificial intelligence (“AI”) platform to accelerate growth, enhance customer service, and drive significant efficiencies for OCK’s customers in Malaysia and beyond.

This strategic alliance will capitalise on OCK’s market-leading connectivity, managed services, and renewable energy business to bolster its customers’ digital transformation initiatives. The partnership will harness SenseTime’s cutting-edge technologies such as generative AI, facial authentication, behavioural analytics, and smart city AI. By tapping on SenseTime’s deep AI expertise and robust learning capabilities, OCK continuously innovates new AI digital solutions and services for its existing and new customers.

By leveraging the brands, investments, scale, strengths, and expertise of both companies, the strategic partnership will build on over a decade of high-performance expansion and empower OCK’s continuous expansion by creating new platforms and services that will enable its strategy to focus on customers, simplicity, and growth. The partnership commits to delivering best-in-class service levels and innovation to OCK’s customers and partners through a long-term agreement, demonstrating the deep partnership commitment between OCK and SenseTime through the comprehensive services portfolio.

OCK group managing director Datuk Wira Sam Ooi Chin Khoon commented, “We are incredibly excited to embark on this strategic partnership with SenseTime. The transformative power of AI is being increasingly acknowledged across industries, driving efficiency and opening up new avenues for revenue generation. Moreover, countries are striving to enhance their technological capabilities in line with adoption of the 5G network. By synergising the unique strengths of both companies, we are poised to develop innovative platforms and services that will catalyse our sustained growth and shape the future of digital transformation.”

OCK Digital chief executive officer Chong Kai Wooi commented, “Today’s announcement marks a significant milestone for OCK Digital as it enhances its engagement with customers to support its transformation, driving its growth and efficiencies. The partnership with SenseTime presents new opportunities for our company and our people to actively participate in realizing the goals of the government’s digital economy journey. We are excited about the potential of our new digital AI platform and services, and the opportunity to serve not only OCK’s own markets but its telco partners across the industry.”

SenseTime Malaysia country manager Wang Ming commented, “SenseTime is excited to partner OCK Digital as we continue to grow and strengthen Malaysia’s digital ecosystem, in line with the Malaysian Digital Economy Blueprint. Rooted in our ethos of creating a better tomorrow with AI, we are committed to empowering businesses and helping them to drive sustainable productivity growth through the integration of our robust AI technologies with OCK Digital’s cutting-edge solutions. We believe that the synergy with OCK Digital will spark further collaborations and we look forward to closely working together to uplift the local communities.”