Cyberview brings Lekir Tech & Mesolitica collectively for AI innovation

[This is a sponsored article with Cyberview.]

Early this yr, startup tech corporations Mesolitica and Lekir Tech signed a Memorandum of Understanding, kickstarting a collaboration that hopes to bolster the native AI scene, and advancing Malaysia’s tech ambition of changing into a number one innovation-driven economic system by 2030.

Since then, with Mesolitica pioneering the localisation of AI language fashions and Cyberjaya-based Lekir Tech creating “AI Brokers” (AI-powered methods designed to deal with repetitive duties), the duo of corporations has made nice strides by way of this collaboration.

From “creating AI Brokers as an final customer support assistant,” to “constructing a Malaysian Language AI Agent Centric system that works throughout industries,” the businesses are striving to “create one thing that not solely understands however excels in serving Malaysians in our distinctive languages and dialects,” mentioned Azizul Othman, co-founder and CEO of Lekir Tech in a Fb submit.

Dictionary time: AI brokers are software program methods that use AI to pursue objectives and full duties on behalf of customers. They present reasoning, planning, and reminiscence and have a degree of autonomy to make selections, study, and adapt.

However who was it that performed matchmaker?

Enter Cyberview

Since their beginnings because the landowner of Cyberjaya, Cyberview has gone on to develop town as a tech ecosystem for creators and innovators, earlier than being given the mandate by the federal government to develop into a Tech Hub Developer in 2019.

An effort to develop this ecosystem included launching the Cyberview Dwelling Lab® Accelerator programme (CLLA) in 2013, with the goal of offering tech entrepreneurs with assist within the areas of human capital, funding, mentorship, infrastructure, in addition to market entry. 

As of 2025, CLLA has nurtured 129 startups, raised over RM264 million in investments, generated over RM837 million in income, and created greater than 1,500 jobs. 

Again in 2023, CLLA introduced collectively eight startups, providing them a five-month programme that supported the event, piloting, and commercialising of their merchandise and options. The purpose being to speed up these corporations into attaining a product-market-fit.

Via the programme, two of those corporations found that they held a pure synergy, and went on to raise Malaysia’s AI capabilities collectively.

Educating machines to grasp Malay

That was the inspiration that kickstarted Mesolitica’s journey in October 2018.

And so, with a RM50,000 funding from WatchTower & Associates and fairness crowdfunding, together with bootstrapping with sponsorships from NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft and Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) for cloud infrastructure, Mesolitica was born with the imaginative and prescient of constructing an AI language for Malaysia.

At present, their flagship providing is MaLLaM (Malaysia Massive Language Mannequin), a language mannequin enabled by the democratisation of core AI applied sciences through the open-source group.

Via this, Mesolitica has launched over 900 language fashions since its inception, and so they’re persevering with to reinforce MaLLaM’s linguistic capabilities throughout all Malaysian languages, be it nationwide, dialectal, ethnic, or colloquial by way of collaborations with personal information holders and governmental our bodies.

“Mesolitica’s affiliation with the Cyberview model has supplied us with enhanced credibility, thereby facilitating extra assured engagement with governmental our bodies, notably these positioned in Putrajaya.”

“Being CLLA alumni enhances our standing inside the native startup ecosystem and facilitates significant collaborations,” mentioned Khalil Nooh, the CEO and co-founder of Mesolitica.

Certainly, the programme has raised the corporate enormously, permitting for shut engagements with NVIDIA in early 2023 and AWS in mid-2024.

And naturally, their collaboration with Lekir Tech.

Making AI accessible

“Lekir Tech was based with a mission to democratise AI for companies of all sizes, particularly SMEs. Our journey started with a imaginative and prescient: to develop AI Agent Digital Employees that transcend automation and actually collaborate with people,” mentioned founders Azizul and Al Khan Abdul Gani.

With an preliminary seed capital of roughly RM250,000, primarily by way of inner founder funds and early income from consultancy companies, Lekir Tech aimed to fulfill the necessity for AI-powered digital employees able to dealing with repetitive duties throughout totally different departments. This contains information reconciliation, reporting, buyer assist, and compliance checks.

“In contrast to conventional automation instruments or easy chatbots, our platform Assistnify brings collectively a number of AI brokers that may really talk with one another, perceive advanced workflows, study out of your information, be built-in into your legacy system, and work alongside your workforce in actual time.”

It’s like hiring a digital workforce that by no means sleeps and by no means will get drained.

Though this concept might sound interesting to many enterprise homeowners, Lekir Tech’s founders added that they nonetheless confronted challenges in convincing conventional companies to depend on AI for his or her day-to-day operations.

Via CLLA, Lekir Tech was capable of additional construct their flagship providing, strengthening their AI agent platform structure and accelerating product-market match validation.

“CLLA was a game-changer for Lekir Tech. It gave us entry to mentorship, funding alternatives, and most significantly, strategic introductions inside the trade. We gained priceless market insights and constructed key partnerships, such because the one with Mesolitica, that helped us transfer to market sooner.”

Now, about six years within the recreation, the co-founders shared that Lekir Tech generates a wholesome annual income, with a month-over-month development of round 12-15%. It’s largely pushed by recurring Software program-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscriptions and AI agent challenge deployments.

And so they’re not stopping right here.

Maintaining the tempo, hand-in-hand

Trying ahead, the duo of corporations have large goals in not simply uplifting the AI scene in Malaysia, but in addition establishing the nation as a frontrunner within the regional AI trade by 2030, as deliberate within the Nationwide AI roadmap.

Based on the digital ministry, AI is projected to contribute roughly US$115 billion (RM530 billion) to Malaysia’s economic system in 5 years; so it’s no surprise that initiatives just like the Strategic Funding Fund and the Nationwide Begin-up Single Window platform have been created to assist the native AI ecosystem. 

“We’re making a supportive ecosystem for innovation, connecting analysis establishments, universities and the personal sector to speed up the event of AI applied sciences,” mentioned Science, Expertise and Innovation (MOSTI) Minister Chang Lih Kang to The Malaysian Reserve.

Certainly, Mesolitica and Lekir Tech’s tales are a reminder of the fruit that may be borne by way of significant partnerships, and so they function a testomony to the CLLA initiative and MOSTI’s dedication..

“CLLA has allowed innovators to leverage the infrastructure and amenities supplied all through town as a testbed for his or her improvements—a real-world setting for piloting rising applied sciences for Cyberjaya,” mentioned Shafinaz Salim, Head of Expertise Hub Growth, Cyberview. 

And so they’re persevering with to take action with their newest sequence of it, the Cyberview Dwelling Lab® Accelerator Cohort 20.

• Study extra about CLLA and their newest cohort right here.
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