By Matthew Brady 
Digital infrastructure company Equinix has partnered with AiHPC (Artificial Intelligence High-Performance Computing) in Hong Kong to launch OrchAI, an open AI healthcare and life sciences platform on Platform Equinix.
Designed to eliminate technological barriers and optimise resource allocation, OrchAI aims to attract healthcare stakeholders from the Greater Bay Area and across APAC to conduct groundbreaking medical research in Hong Kong, strengthening the city’s position as a key super-connector in the region.
By integrating with Platform Equinix, research, medical, and tertiary institutions gain access to end-to-end digital services, including high-performance computing acceleration, data orchestration and manipulation, and edge solution deployment.
In addition, healthcare and life sciences institutions can seamlessly connect to cloud service providers through Equinix Internet Access and Equinix Fabric, enabling data exchange across multiple cloud environments.
After deploying OrchAI, upload times to AWS Cloud in Hong Kong or Singapore via Equinix Internet Access have been cut by over 90 per cent – up to 22 times faster than the public internet. The enhanced connectivity infrastructure improves data scalability, ensures secure and compliant data handling, and empowers healthcare organisations to drive cross-innovation in medical research and clinical trials.
