Taiwan widens AI support with expanded access and investment

台灣擴大人工智慧支援力度，增加投資

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan plans to widen access to AI computing resources, with more than 300 companies expected to benefit as the government expands its shared infrastructure.

The Ministry of Digital Affairs said it will increase its computing pool to 140 GPUs while building on earlier results that saw 242 project uses across 186 firms, leading to 266 AI models and services, per UDN. Among those efforts, 80 companies have already turned their AI work into commercial products.

A separate investment program backed by the National Development Fund and open to application since last year has set aside NT$10 billion (about US$310 million) over 10 years. So far, 36 companies have been paired with investors, with six approved deals totaling about NT$75.56 million and drawing roughly NT$300 million in private capital, per the report.

To attract more funding, officials are pursuing tax incentives now under review and have designated AI computing centers as a strategic industry to encourage participation from institutional investors.

Alongside hardware and funding, the government has launched a traditional Chinese-language training database, now exceeding 1.1 billion tokens across more than 3,000 datasets from over 200 agencies, aimed at improving how AI systems handle Taiwan-specific contexts.