MyRepublic’s AI Automation Box helps keep costs low for SMBs to onboard the AI wagon
With industry partners like Dreamcore and ASUS Singapore, they bring focus to address the needs of local industries.
It’s no secret that the number of businesses winding up is increasing year-on-year, as reported on CNA and Straits Times. Common themes that bind their troubles typically include rising operational costs and rental, difficulty in getting manpower, or failure to adopt new technologies and insights that can better meet the evolving needs of customers.
What’s also echoing loud and clear almost every other day is the wonders of AI to tackle all the mundane tasks, fast-track paperwork, content creation chores and much more, which all point to potential uplifts in either performance, cost savings or both. While numerous reports indicate that both the everyday worker and businesses are optimistic about the prospects, there are also numerous concerns (as referenced from Salesforce, Alteryx and Kaspersky, among others), such as business data security, poor integration with existing infrastructure, and the high upfront costs associated with implementing AI.
MyRepublic’s Answer - The AI Automation Box
At MyRepublic’s launch event for their all-new AI Automation Box, we spoke to Imran Nazi (Head of MyRepublic’s ICT and Enterprise), and the founders of Dreamcore (Eugene Lim and Wei Zhong). All three shared that the number one problem they hear from customers is about the cost of implementation to bring AI-powered services to their businesses while preserving customer and business intelligence data in-house.
This spurred the combined interests of MyRepublic (as a platform and service connector) and Dreamcore (as the hardware solutions partner) to help serve a market segment that has high interest but is unable to fork out the high costs for the relevant hardware, or has not dabbled enough to justify the costs.
Breaking down cost, the telco way
Just like a telco plan contract, you can now sign-up for ‘AI startup’ solution to uplift your current business.
If there’s one thing that telco and internet service providers do best, it's to break down the cost of adoption through their ability to dissect the costs across a longer period of time (multi-year contracts), thereby enabling the masses to get top-end gear without the penalty of eating into their savings. This is precisely what MyRepublic’s AI Automation Box brings to the table from just S$278 per month, through a 36-month contract. You don’t only get the hardware, but a complete ‘starter package’ to get small business owners off the ground running:-
- Self-hosting of a large language model (LLM) of your choice
- No code database
- No-code/Low-code automation tools
- Automated, ready-to-use templates and workflows to train your data
- Comes with consultancy and training
Hardware, LLMs, pre-defined automated workflows, consultation and training -- An all-in-one package.
Know your boxes
The AI Automation Box comes in two configurations, where the Basic box is powered by Dreamcore, and ASUS comes in to supply the Pro box that’s designed for rack-oriented use and is extensible as your needs scale.
The Basic box comes with some of the top-of-the-line professional consumer hardware that’s ideal for creators with the likes of an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (16-core) processor under the hood and a GeForce RTX 5090 32GB that’s rated to crunch 3352 AI TOPS. This powerful configuration, no doubt, is also familiar to gamers, and it currently represents the best hardware enthusiasts can buy. Our own reviews are testimony to that.
On the Pro box that’s catered for larger SMEs who’ve up to 200 people in the organisation or simply need much more brute processing power, you get an AMD EPYC 16-core server-class processor, enterprise-class PCIe NVMe Gen.5 storage in U.2 form factor, and an NVIDIA L4 that’s expressly designed for inferencing workloads. Supporting AI-powered DLSS 3, NVIDIA positions the L4 as the ideal server accelerator for AI video workloads. Find out even more about the NVIDIA L4 in our earlier story here.
If you’re a small business owner or CTO, check out the MyRepublic’s brand new and the first of its kind all-inclusive AI starter box here that’s tailored for local businesses and powered by Singapore businesses who know and understand the local scene.