Thailand sovereign AI programme

Vendor: NVIDIA

Count: 704

Status: Operational

Scope: Physical hardware

ThaiSC / NSTDA (LANTA, deployed Nov 2022)

LANTA’s A100 partition: 176 nodes with four GPUs each. Primary source

A part of the programme. The instrument closest to the programme record: the committee that drives the National AI Action Plan (2565-2570, i.e. 2022-2027) approved this framework for the plan's National AI Program in the plan's last two fiscal years, alongside nine centres of excellence that include the ThaiLLM Consortium and a Government AI Computing Center. It covers two of the plan's six fiscal years, hence component. The approving body is the National AI Committee, chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Economy and Society, not the Cabinet; the figure is a floor ("not less than") for budgets across agencies, not an appropriation, and no document read maps Budget Act lines to it. The action plan itself (the version approved by the Cabinet on 26 July 2022) states no consolidated budget.

Approved by the government: the National AI Committee’s at least 15 billion THB budget framework for fiscal years 2569-2570, October 2025 to September 2027. Printed as “ไม่ต่ำกว่า 15,000 ล้านบาท”. About $459M at the reference rate of 30 Jul 2025. ที่ประชุมได้เห็นชอบกรอบงบประมาณสำหรับขับเคลื่อนตามกรอบการพัฒนาปัญญาประดิษฐ์แห่งชาติประจำปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2569 – 2570 ไม่ต่ำกว่า 15,000 ล้านบาท เพื่อสร้างระบบนิเวศ AI (The meeting approved a budget framework of not less than 15,000 million baht for driving the national AI development framework [National AI Program] in fiscal years 2569-2570 [1 October 2025 to 30 September 2027], to build an AI ecosystem.) สำนักงานพัฒนาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีแห่งชาติ (NSTDA, National Science and Technology Development Agency), รัฐบาลเดินหน้าขับเคลื่อนกรอบการพัฒนาปัญญาประดิษฐ์แห่งชาติ (National AI Program) [The government drives the National AI Program forward]: NSTDA release on meeting 2/2568 of the National AI Committee, 30 July 2025, second paragraph of the release (the meeting's decisions)

A part of the programme. NSTDA's FY2569 budget-plan line for its Battle-group programme on the national AI ecosystem, whose outputs in the report are the AI service platform (AI FOR THAI), AI benchmark datasets and a biometrics research centre. The budget is NSTDA's own action and budget plan as approved by its board (กวทช.), not a Budget Act appropriation; the report does not say how much of it is government subsidy.

In a budget estimate: NSTDA’s 94 million THB FY2569 plan for its National AI Ecosystem programme, October 2025 to September 2026. Printed as “94,022,590 บาท”. About $3M at the reference rate of 25 Aug 2025. งบประมาณ : 94,022,590 บาท* ระยะเวลาการดำเนินงาน : ปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2569 เริ่มตั้งแต่ 1 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2568 ถึง 30 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2569 ... หมายเหตุ * : อ้างอิงจากแผนปฏิบัติการและแผนงบประมาณ ปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2569 ที่ได้รับอนุมัติจากที่ประชุม กวทช. ครั้งที่ 8/2568 เมื่อวันพุธที่ 25 สิงหาคม 2568 (Budget: 94,022,590 baht* Implementation period: fiscal year 2569, from 1 October 2568 [2025] to 30 September 2569 [2026] ... Note *: from the FY2569 action plan and budget plan approved by NSTDA board meeting 8/2568 on Wednesday 25 August 2568 [2025].) สำนักงานพัฒนาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีแห่งชาติ (NSTDA, National Science and Technology Development Agency), รายงานผลการดำเนินงานของ สวทช. ไตรมาสที่ 3 ปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2569 (1 ตุลาคม 2568 – 30 มิถุนายน 2569) [NSTDA performance report, third quarter of fiscal year 2569, 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026; cover dated สิงหาคม 2569 (August 2026)], section 6.2.1.1 (programmes in the Battle group), item 1.1.11 "National AI Ecosystem": heading on page 54, budget block on page 55 (PDF page numbers equal the printed ones); the measure is defined in section 8.2, page 156, 17 Aug 2026

Committed: 37.6 million THB, 30 Jun 2026. Printed as “37,557,741.01 บาท”. Printed as ผลการใช้จ่ายงบประมาณ ("budget spending result"). Section 8.2 (page 156) reports NSTDA's budget used as commitments (purchase requests, purchase orders, advances, non-procurement expenses and budget reservations) plus actual spending, and the report's 41 programme figures add up, strategy by strategy, to that combined column (Strategy 1: 1,117.87 million baht) rather than to the actual-spending column (774.22 million baht). The report does not split this programme's figure, so no part of it is recorded as paid. งบประมาณ : 94,022,590 บาท* ... ผลการใช้จ่ายงบประมาณ : 37,557,741.01 บาท (Budget: 94,022,590 baht* ... Budget spending result: 37,557,741.01 baht) สำนักงานพัฒนาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีแห่งชาติ (NSTDA, National Science and Technology Development Agency), รายงานผลการดำเนินงานของ สวทช. ไตรมาสที่ 3 ปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2569 (1 ตุลาคม 2568 – 30 มิถุนายน 2569) [NSTDA performance report, third quarter of fiscal year 2569, 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026; cover dated สิงหาคม 2569 (August 2026)], section 6.2.1.1 (programmes in the Battle group), item 1.1.11 "National AI Ecosystem": heading on page 54, budget block on page 55 (PDF page numbers equal the printed ones); the measure is defined in section 8.2, page 156, 17 Aug 2026

A part of the programme. NSTDA's FY2569 budget-plan line for ThaiSC, which operates LANTA, the programme record's compute asset; the report's indicators are CPU-hours and GPU-hours served and active users. The budget is NSTDA's own action and budget plan as approved by its board, not a Budget Act appropriation. LANTA itself was funded from the Science, Research and Innovation Promotion Fund's FY2564 budget, for which no amount appears in any document read.

In a budget estimate: NSTDA’s 15 million THB FY2569 plan for ThaiSC, October 2025 to September 2026. Printed as “15,000,000 บาท”. About $462K at the reference rate of 25 Aug 2025. งบประมาณ : 15,000,000 บาท* ระยะเวลาการดำเนินงาน : ปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2569 เริ่มตั้งแต่ 1 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2568 ถึง 30 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2569 ... หมายเหตุ * : อ้างอิงจากแผนปฏิบัติการและแผนงบประมาณ ปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2569 ที่ได้รับอนุมัติจากที่ประชุม กวทช. ครั้งที่ 8/2568 (Budget: 15,000,000 baht* Implementation period: fiscal year 2569, from 1 October 2568 [2025] to 30 September 2569 [2026] ... Note *: from the FY2569 action plan and budget plan approved by NSTDA board meeting 8/2568.) สำนักงานพัฒนาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีแห่งชาติ (NSTDA, National Science and Technology Development Agency), รายงานผลการดำเนินงานของ สวทช. ไตรมาสที่ 3 ปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2569 (1 ตุลาคม 2568 – 30 มิถุนายน 2569) [NSTDA performance report, third quarter of fiscal year 2569, 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026; cover dated สิงหาคม 2569 (August 2026)], section 6.2.3.1.4 (ThaiSC programme): heading on page 112, budget block on page 114; the measure is defined in section 8.2, page 156, 17 Aug 2026

Committed: 7.58 million THB, 30 Jun 2026. Printed as “7,582,389.32 บาท”. Printed as ผลการใช้จ่ายงบประมาณ ("budget spending result"). Section 8.2 (page 156) reports NSTDA's budget used as commitments (purchase requests, purchase orders, advances, non-procurement expenses and budget reservations) plus actual spending, and the report's 41 programme figures add up, strategy by strategy, to that combined column (Strategy 3: 451.93 million baht) rather than to the actual-spending column (350.62 million baht). The report does not split this programme's figure, so no part of it is recorded as paid. งบประมาณ : 15,000,000 บาท* ... ผลการใช้จ่ายงบประมาณ : 7,582,389.32 บาท (Budget: 15,000,000 baht* ... Budget spending result: 7,582,389.32 baht) สำนักงานพัฒนาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีแห่งชาติ (NSTDA, National Science and Technology Development Agency), รายงานผลการดำเนินงานของ สวทช. ไตรมาสที่ 3 ปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2569 (1 ตุลาคม 2568 – 30 มิถุนายน 2569) [NSTDA performance report, third quarter of fiscal year 2569, 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026; cover dated สิงหาคม 2569 (August 2026)], section 6.2.3.1.4 (ThaiSC programme): heading on page 112, budget block on page 114; the measure is defined in section 8.2, page 156, 17 Aug 2026

National AI Action Plan (ai.in.th): แผนปฏิบัติการด้านปัญญาประดิษฐ์แห่งชาติเพื่อการพัฒนาประเทศไทย ระยะ ๖ ปี (พ.ศ. ๒๕๖๕ – ๒๕๗๐), the version approved by the Cabinet on 26 July 2022 (251 pages), read in full.. No consolidated budget, and no budget column in the project tables. The only budget provision is a recommendation that public AI projects of 1 million baht or more set aside 1 per cent for studies of ethics and social impact. National AI Action Plan (ai.in.th), 2 Nov 2026

NSTDA and MHESI news releases (nstda.or.th, mhesi.go.th): NSTDA releases of 15 Nov 2022 (LANTA ranked 70th in the TOP500), 28 Aug 2023 (the plan's first year), 25 Oct 2024 (its first two years), 30 Jul 2025 (National AI Committee meeting 2/2568), 26 Feb 2026 (ThaiSC services) and 1 Apr 2026 (ThaiLLM, English site); the MHESI minister's release of 15 Nov 2022 on LANTA; NSTDA's one-page ThaiSC showcase for ministers (PDF created May 2026).. The 30 July 2025 release states the committee's FY2569-2570 budget framework of not less than 15,000 million baht (the primary line). LANTA was funded from the Science, Research and Innovation Promotion Fund's FY2564 budget (no amount); ThaiLLM is supported by the Digital Economy and Society Development Fund (no amount); the 2023 release counts AI R&D projects worth 1,290 million baht in research funds (project value, not spending); the February 2026 release gives LANTA an impact value of over 6,900 million baht. No spending figure in any of them. NSTDA and MHESI news releases (nstda.or.th, mhesi.go.th), 2 Nov 2026

NSTDA board reports (waa.inter.nstda.or.th): Performance report for FY2566 Q4 (October 2565 to September 2566; dated December 2566; 434 pages) and for FY2569 Q3 (1 October 2568 to 30 June 2569; dated August 2569; 258 pages, with interim financial statements). The FY2567 Q1 and Q4, FY2568 Q1, FY2569 Q1 and Q2 reports and the FY2569 action plan are in the same repository and were not opened.. FY2569 Q3: 41 programme blocks print a budget and a "budget spending result"; two are AI or compute (National AI Ecosystem, 94,022,590 and 37,557,741.01 baht; ThaiSC, 15,000,000 and 7,582,389.32 baht), and section 8.2 shows that these results combine commitments with actual spending. The Budget Bureau output indicators (section 9.2) and the financial statements (expenses by nature) carry no AI money figure. FY2566 Q4: organisation-wide budget spending of 6,896.61 of 8,260.00 million baht; the AI output (2.4) reports indicators only. NSTDA board reports (waa.inter.nstda.or.th), 2 Nov 2026

Budget Bureau (bb.go.th): บันทึกวิเคราะห์สรุปสาระสำคัญร่างพระราชบัญญัติงบประมาณรายจ่ายประจำปีงบประมาณ พ.ศ. 2569 (the Budget Bureau's 9-page summary of the FY2569 draft Budget Act, March 2025), read in full; web searches for the Budget Bureau's agency budget documents (เอกสารงบประมาณ) carrying NSTDA's AI-titled output and project (bb.go.th itself answered HTTP 403).. No AI line. The nearest items are the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society's draft FY2569 total (10,223.0 million baht) and the digital-government integrated plan (6,921.7 million baht). The agency budget documents for FY2566 to FY2570 were not found. Budget Bureau (bb.go.th), 2 Nov 2026

Office of the National Digital Economy and Society Commission (datacatalog.bde.go.th): Annual performance report for FY2568 (54 pages, published 2569), searched for ThaiLLM, language models, GPUs and AI.. No ThaiLLM or Digital Economy and Society Development Fund grant figure; its AI items are ASEAN AI framework work. Office of the National Digital Economy and Society Commission (datacatalog.bde.go.th), 2 Nov 2026

Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, Government House and the Public Relations Department: MDES news on the National AI Committee's meetings and on ThaiLLM; a Cabinet document of 14 October 2025 that web search surfaced (https://www.thaigov.go.th/uploads/document/74/2025/10/pdf/20251014165623_8070.pdf); the Public Relations Department's ThaiLLM page (thailand.go.th).. Nothing read: MDES news pages and thaigov.go.th returned HTTP 403 to scripted requests, the MDES home page now serves a landing page, and thailand.go.th served a bot check. Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, Government House and the Public Relations Department, 2 Nov 2026

Parliament, State Audit Office and the Digital Economy and Society Development Fund (web search): Web searches, run on 2 November 2026, for parliamentary questions, committee records and Royal Gazette written answers on the AI plan's budget; for State Audit Office reports on LANTA or the AI plan; and for the Fund's grant to ThaiLLM. The parliament, audit office (audit.go.th) and Fund sites were not searched directly; one parliament.go.th document returned HTTP 403.. No government document with an AI budget or spending figure. Search results were press items; the 25,000 million baht figure they attribute to the 30 July 2025 meeting is not in any government document read. Parliament, State Audit Office and the Digital Economy and Society Development Fund (web search), 2 Nov 2026

No document read reports spending against the National AI Committee's FY2569-2570 framework. Whether MDES or the committee publishes progress reports is unverified: MDES news pages and thaigov.go.th refused scripted requests.

Press coverage of the same 30 July 2025 meeting gives not less than 25,000 million baht of public AI investment for FY2569, counting in-plan and off-plan budgets and state funds already invested. No government document read states it (the NSTDA release states 15,000 million baht for FY2569-2570); the two may be different quantities. Unverified.

NSTDA prints one "budget spending result" per programme that combines commitments with actual spending; the actual-only split for the National AI Ecosystem and ThaiSC programmes is not in the reports read. The FY2569 Q4 report will give full-year figures in the same form.

LANTA's grant from the Science, Research and Innovation Promotion Fund (FY2564) and ThaiLLM's support from the Digital Economy and Society Development Fund have no amount in any document read.

The Budget Bureau's agency budget documents for FY2566 to FY2570 (which would carry NSTDA's AI-titled output and project, named in the Q3 report's section 9.2) were not found, so their appropriations are not recorded.

House of Representatives records (budget scrutiny committee reports, written answers published in the Royal Gazette) and the State Audit Office's site were not searched directly.

The Government AI Computing Center, one of the nine centres of excellence approved on 30 July 2025, has no budget figure in any document read.