Vietnam sovereign AI programme

Vietnam’s AI infrastructure includes Viettel’s DGX B200 system at Hoa Lac and FPT’s commercial H100/H200 services.

National AI Strategy, 2025–2027; the record also covers NVIDIA Partnership

Funding

Funding components

National Data Development Fund: VND 1T initial state capital for broad data developmentGovernment
Economy-wide proposed AI and data-centre investments; no programme aggregatePrivate

The National Data Development Fund has VND 1T in initial state capital for data technologies and services, including AI. A dated exchange-rate source has not been established for a USD conversion.

The programme

The science ministry reported Viettel’s system entering operation in February 2026; FPT’s $200M AI Factory investment plan dates to April 2024. Decree 160/2025 established the National Data Development Fund with VND 1T in initial state capital for data technologies and services, including AI. A proposed National AI Development Fund is a different institution. Reports of more than $7B in proposed AI and data-centre investments describe the wider market, without a common programme budget.

Money on record

The government’s documents state no budget for the programme.

Chips and rules

US export rules: Vietnam is in Country Group D:1, where exporting advanced AI chips needs a licence from the US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, 29 Oct 2026
Scrutica’s rating: Scrutica rates the programme’s dependence on NVIDIA hardware and on US technology high, on a scale of none, low, medium and high.A qualitative assessment of the programme’s chips, partners and supplier relationships, as none, low, medium or high

Partners

2 partners by procurement stage and 3 more named in the programme’s sources.

In service, 2: Viettel Group, FPT Corporation
Named in sources: NVIDIA, Ministry of Science and Technology, Vietnam National Innovation Center

Government spending

No paid figure stated in the government’s documents

No Vietnamese government document read states an amount for the National AI Strategy or reports money spent on it: the 2026 strategy (Decision 1671/QĐ-TTg, which replaced Decision 127/QĐ-TTg of 2021) sets only a target that state-budget investment in AI reach about 0.6% of annual state spending, and the December 2024 NVIDIA agreement carries no state budget. The National Data Development Fund, whose first listed objective is AI, has VND 1,000 billion of state capital set by Decree 160/2025/NĐ-CP, with no transfer or spending figure found; a VND 30,000 billion National AI Development Fund exists only in a draft decree.

National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence to 2030, vision to 2045 (Decision 1671/QĐ-TTg), financed from state-budget allocations for science, technology, innovation and digital transformation

The whole programme. The programme record is the national AI strategy plus the NVIDIA partnership. Decision 1671/QĐ-TTg (28 August 2026, effective on signature) replaced the 2021 strategy (Decision 127/QĐ-TTg). Its funding section (V. Kinh phí thực hiện) channels money through the general state-budget allocations for science, technology, innovation and digital transformation and the existing national S&T and technology-innovation funds, and states no amount; its input targets are ratios (total AI investment 1-1.5% of GDP a year; state-budget investment in AI about 0.6% of annual state-budget spending) and a compute target (about 560 EFLOPS BF16 or 1,100 EFLOPS FP8 and about 500 MW, from state, domestic and foreign investment). The government's 5 December 2024 agreement with NVIDIA, as the Government's e-newspaper reports it, concerns NVIDIA's own R&D centre and a Viettel AI data centre; no state budget line is attached to it in the documents read.

National Data Development Fund (off-budget state financial fund managed by the Ministry of Public Security)

A budget covering more than the AI programme. Decree 160/2025/NĐ-CP sets up the fund to support data development; the first objective listed (Article 4.1) is supporting the development and application of AI, big data, machine learning, cloud, blockchain and IoT technologies, so AI is one purpose among several. The state capital is set in a government decree (secondary legislation), not a parliamentary appropriation, and the decree gives it no end date: the fund is to be topped up each year to hold VND 1,000 billion at the start of each fiscal year. No document read reports the capital being transferred or the fund spending it.

Set by law: the National Data Development Fund’s ₫1 trillion state capital. Printed as “1.000 tỷ đồng”. About $40M at the reference rate of 28 Jun 2025. Điều 8. Ngân sách hoạt động của Quỹ 1. Ngân sách nhà nước cấp vốn cho Quỹ là 1.000 tỷ đồng. Căn cứ khả năng cân đối ngân sách, Quỹ được hỗ trợ kinh phí hằng năm để bảo đảm duy trì mức 1.000 tỷ đồng tại thời điểm đầu các năm tài chính. (Article 8. The Fund's operating budget. 1. The state budget provides capital of VND 1,000 billion to the Fund. Depending on the budget's balancing capacity, the Fund receives annual support to keep VND 1,000 billion at the start of each fiscal year.) Chính phủ (Government of Viet Nam); Công báo, Văn phòng Chính phủ, Nghị định số 160/2025/NĐ-CP ngày 29/6/2025 quy định về Quỹ Phát triển dữ liệu quốc gia (Công báo số 863 + 864, ngày 10/7/2025), Article 8.1, PDF page 5 (Công báo p. 7); objectives Article 4.1, PDF page 2; effective date Article 53.1, PDF page 32, 10 Jul 2025

National AI Development Fund under the Law on Artificial Intelligence (No. 134/2025/QH15), as proposed in the science ministry's draft decree

A part of the programme. The AI Law (passed 10 December 2025, in force 1 March 2026) provides for the fund; the Ministry of Science and Technology's draft decree, put out for comment from 12 April to 12 May 2026, proposes VND 30,000 billion of state capital in tranches. No adopted decree was found; the press (doanhnghiephoinhap.vn, tier 3, not a government document) reported that at a meeting on 17 June 2026 Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung agreed with the proposal not to set up an additional National AI Development Fund and asked the ministry to fold AI tasks into existing funds. The figure is a proposal, recorded as announced, never as a budget.

Announced: ₫30 trillion, 12 Apr 2026. Printed as “30.000 tỷ đồng”. Proposed total state capital in the draft decree's Article 35.1(a)(a1), first tranche VND 1,000 billion; a draft for consultation, not an approved outlay. a1) Quỹ được ngân sách nhà nước cấp vốn với tổng quy mô là 30.000 tỷ đồng (lần đầu là 1.000 tỷ đồng), được bố trí nhiều lần phù hợp với khả năng cân đối ngân sách nhà nước và yêu cầu triển khai các nhiệm vụ của Quỹ (a1) The Fund receives state-budget capital with a total scale of VND 30,000 billion (the first tranche VND 1,000 billion), allocated in several tranches according to the state budget's balancing capacity and the Fund's task needs) Bộ Khoa học và Công nghệ (Ministry of Science and Technology), Dự thảo Nghị định quy định về Quỹ Phát triển trí tuệ nhân tạo quốc gia (Ver7), posted at mst.gov.vn/van-ban-phap-luat/du-thao/2419.htm, Article 35 (Nguồn tài chính và cơ chế tài chính đặc thù của Quỹ), point a1, 12 Apr 2026

Searched, 6 places

Official Gazette (congbao.chinhphu.vn): Decision 1671/QĐ-TTg of 28 Aug 2026 approving the National AI Strategy to 2030, vision 2045 (Công báo No. 507, 12 Sep 2026, 64 pages); Decree 160/2025/NĐ-CP on the National Data Development Fund (Công báo No. 863+864, 10 Jul 2025); listing for Law No. 134/2025/QH15 on AI. Decision 1671 states no amount: funding section V lists state-budget S&T/innovation/digital-transformation allocations and existing funds; targets are 0.6% of annual state spending on AI and about 560 EFLOPS BF16 / 500 MW. Decree 160 Article 8.1 sets VND 1,000 billion state capital for the data fund. Official Gazette (congbao.chinhphu.vn), 2 Nov 2026

Government legal documents portal (vanban.chinhphu.vn): Decision 127/QĐ-TTg of 26 Jan 2021 (2021 AI strategy, signed PDF). Image-only PDF with no text layer (no Vietnamese OCR on this machine), so its funding clause was not machine-read; Decision 1671 replaced it on 28 Aug 2026. Government legal documents portal (vanban.chinhphu.vn), 2 Nov 2026

Ministry of Science and Technology (mst.gov.vn): Draft decree on the National AI Development Fund (Ver7) and its submission to the Government (consultation 12 Apr-12 May 2026); release of 29 Mar 2026 on the fund under Decision 367/QĐ-TTg; release of 9 Feb 2026 on Viettel's DGX B200 system. Draft proposes VND 30,000 billion state capital (first tranche 1,000 billion); no adopted decree, appropriation or disbursement found. The Viettel release names no state funding. Ministry of Science and Technology (mst.gov.vn), 2 Nov 2026

Ministry of Finance budget-disclosure portal (ckns.mof.gov.vn) and 2026 budget acts: Located via search: 2026 state-budget estimate forms, National Assembly Resolutions 245/2025/QH15 and 246/2025/QH15, Decisions 2660-2661/QĐ-TTg (5 Dec 2025); forms not opened. Not opened; no AI programme line surfaced in the search results, which describe allocations by ministry and by the science-technology-innovation-digital-transformation sector. Ministry of Finance budget-disclosure portal (ckns.mof.gov.vn) and 2026 budget acts, 2 Nov 2026

Government e-newspaper (baochinhphu.vn) and former Ministry of Planning and Investment site (mpi.gov.vn): Report of the 5 Dec 2024 Government-NVIDIA agreement; the MPI announcement of 9 Dec 2024 in the programme record. The agreement covers NVIDIA's AI R&D centre and Viettel's AI data centre using NVIDIA technology; no amount and no state budget. mpi.gov.vn did not connect (curl status 000). Government e-newspaper (baochinhphu.vn) and former Ministry of Planning and Investment site (mpi.gov.vn), 2 Nov 2026

State Audit Office of Viet Nam (kiemtoannhanuoc.gov.vn, sav.gov.vn): Intended: audit reports on 2025 state-budget settlement and the data fund. kiemtoannhanuoc.gov.vn did not connect; sav.gov.vn redirected and was not searched further. Nothing read. State Audit Office of Viet Nam (kiemtoannhanuoc.gov.vn, sav.gov.vn), 2 Nov 2026

Still open

Whether the state budget has transferred the VND 1,000 billion capital to the National Data Development Fund, and what the fund has disbursed: no Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Public Security or fund report was found.

Whether the Government has formally decided not to set up the National AI Development Fund (press report of a 17 June 2026 meeting) or adopted the draft decree: no government document confirming either was found.

Whether any 2026 state-budget estimate form on ckns.mof.gov.vn or the Ministry of Science and Technology's budget disclosure carries an AI-specific line (the strategy's 0.6% target implies tracking): not opened.

Open Sovereign AI funding

Sources

12 sources

Source	Date
Vietnam’s investment ministry announcement of its December 2024 NVIDIA research-centre partnership.
FPT’s July 16, 2025 discussion of its AI Factory business and $200M investment plan.	28 Mar 2026
NVIDIA’s September 25, 2025 account of Vietnamese AI infrastructure, including FPT’s H100/H200 services.	28 Mar 2026
Official Decree 160/2025/NĐ-CP, June 29, 2025: data-development fund mandate (Articles 3–4) and VND 1T initial state capital (Article 8).	8 Sep 2026
Science ministry’s February 9, 2026 report on Viettel’s DGX B200 system entering operation at Hoa Lac; 1.5 EFLOPS stated at FP8.	8 Sep 2026
FPT’s April 23, 2024 announcement of a $200M AI Factory investment plan with NVIDIA.	8 Sep 2026
FPT’s March 25, 2026 announcement of planned HGX B300 availability alongside existing H100/H200 services.	8 Sep 2026
NVIDIA’s December 5, 2024 announcement of a Vietnam R&D centre focused on AI software.	8 Sep 2026
Lexology legal analysis of Vietnam’s AI legislation.
VietnamPlus reporting on the proposed National AI Development Fund, distinct from the existing data-development fund.	28 Mar 2026
VietnamPlus’s March 19, 2026 report of 22 operating DGX B200 systems at Viettel.	8 Sep 2026
TNGlobal’s July 20, 2026 report on BMI’s aggregate of proposed AI and data-centre investments in Vietnam.	8 Sep 2026

Vietnam’s investment ministry announcement of its December 2024 NVIDIA research-centre partnership.: https://www.mpi.gov.vn/en/Pages/2024-12-9/Vietnam-partner-with-NVIDIA-to-establish-an-AI-Resv6lq3b.aspx
FPT’s July 16, 2025 discussion of its AI Factory business and $200M investment plan.: https://fptcloud.com/en/fpt-ai-factory-200-million-bold-bet-on-sovereign-ai/
NVIDIA’s September 25, 2025 account of Vietnamese AI infrastructure, including FPT’s H100/H200 services.: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-day-ho-chi-minh-city/
Official Decree 160/2025/NĐ-CP, June 29, 2025: data-development fund mandate (Articles 3–4) and VND 1T initial state capital (Article 8).: https://congbao.chinhphu.vn/van-ban/nghi-dinh-so-160-2025-nd-cp-45315/57222.htm
Science ministry’s February 9, 2026 report on Viettel’s DGX B200 system entering operation at Hoa Lac; 1.5 EFLOPS stated at FP8.: https://mst.gov.vn/van-hanh-he-thong-sieu-may-tinh-nvidia-dgx-b200-dau-tien-do-viet-nam-so-huu-197260209085410804.htm
FPT’s April 23, 2024 announcement of a $200M AI Factory investment plan with NVIDIA.: https://fpt.com/en/news/fpt-to-shape-the-future-of-ai-and-cloud-on-a-global-scale-in-collaboration-with-nvidia
FPT’s March 25, 2026 announcement of planned HGX B300 availability alongside existing H100/H200 services.: https://factory.fpt.ai/news/fpt-ai-factory-accelerates-ai-reasoning-capabilities-across-southeast-asia-and-japan-with-nvidia
NVIDIA’s December 5, 2024 announcement of a Vietnam R&D centre focused on AI software.: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-open-vietnam-r-d-center-to-bolster-ai-development
Lexology legal analysis of Vietnam’s AI legislation.: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=b8c22aba-ceee-4aca-a19a-2e59db720989
VietnamPlus reporting on the proposed National AI Development Fund, distinct from the existing data-development fund.: https://en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnam-to-establish-national-ai-development-fund-post338685.vnp
VietnamPlus’s March 19, 2026 report of 22 operating DGX B200 systems at Viettel.: https://en.vietnamplus.vn/viettel-partners-with-nvidia-to-build-sovereign-ai-ecosystem-post339518.vnp
TNGlobal’s July 20, 2026 report on BMI’s aggregate of proposed AI and data-centre investments in Vietnam.: https://technode.global/2026/07/20/vietnam-emerges-as-seas-next-data-center-contender-amid-regional-capacity-shift-bmi/

Data

This programme

Evidence trail (RSS)

Derivation chain (JSON)

All programmes

CSV

JSON with provenance

How the figures were made

Announcement recorded. No commitment or disbursement recorded. The stage is assigned from reported hardware status, disbursements and commitments.

Other caveats on this record, 4

The separately proposed National AI Development Fund has no amount in the cited VietnamPlus report.
TNGlobal’s July 2026 report attributes the more-than-$7B figure to BMI’s aggregate of announced and proposed AI and data-centre investments. It is not a government allocation or a programme total.
VietnamPlus reports 22 DGX B200 systems at Viettel. This is a system count; the record does not convert it into an inferred GPU count.
FPT’s March 2026 announcement describes HGX B300 as a forthcoming service. The operating H100/H200 services and proposed B300 expansion have different delivery stages.

Identifiers

Scrutica ID: sovereign-vn
Country code: VN
Name in the record: Vietnam: National AI Strategy & NVIDIA Partnership