Kuok Group Singapore wins at SBR Technology Excellence Awards 2025

The company was recognised for launching Enterprise Private GPT to boost productivity and operational efficiency.

Kuok Group Singapore was honoured at the SBR Technology Excellence Awards 2025 in the AI - Conglomerates category, highlighting the efficiency of its Enterprise Private GPT.

Enterprise Private GPT is an AI initiative that consist two powerful AI tools, KuokSG-GPT and Vessel Document RAG. This improves productivity and operational efficiency in the organisation whilst ensuring data privacy and security.

At the heart of this initiative is KuokSG-GPT, a secure and private AI tool that helps employees with tasks like summarising documents, drafting proposals, analysing data, and generating insights. KuokSG-GPT is hosted on a private cloud, and provides a safe environment for the entire workforce to work more efficiently.

Complementing KuokSG-GPT is Vessel Document RAG, a specialised AI tool built for maritime operations that focusses on digitising vessel manuals and preserving important technical knowledge. This helps maritime staff access vital information quickly and accurately.

The combination of these tools streamlines everyday tasks and provides specialised support for maritime operations, all whilst maintaining strict data privacy and security standards.

Enterprise Private GPT sets itself apart from public AI tools by offering a secure and controlled environment. Unlike public AI models that can pose risks of data leakage, this initiative ensures that sensitive information is handled with the highest level of security. Vessel Document RAG also incorporates advanced technologies like Intelligent Document Processing and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to enhance productivity in maritime operations.

Enterprise Private GPT aims to increase the adoption of KuokSG-GPT in the organisation, and digitise and centralise vessel manuals and maintenance histories through Vessel Document RAG.

Since its introduction, KuokSG-GPT has quickly become a valuable tool, as it has been used by over 30% of targeted employees daily. Training sessions and workshops have helped employees to use AI as a tool, enabling them to embrace the new technology confidently.

Vessel Document RAG has proven especially effective in the maritime sector as well. By retaining critical knowledge, Vessel Document RAG helps to shorten time to retrieve critical vessel asset information and reduce mistakes in getting wrong information to improve our maintenance regime.

With a flexible and scalable architecture, Enterprise Private GPT has the potential for future growth. The company plans on integrating it with other systems like agentic AI, adding multilingual support, enhancing collaboration tools, and expanding the use of RAG capabilities to improve efficiency across various departments.

The SBR Technology Excellence Awards recognises technological innovations and companies in Singapore that are leading the digital journeys of their respective industries. The awards programme commends companies that pioneered groundbreaking IT products and solutions, and organisations from different industries that made an impact with their innovative technology.

The SBR Technology Excellence Awards is presented by Singapore Business Review Magazine. To view the full list of winners, click here. If you want to join the 2026 awards programme and be acclaimed for your company's outstanding contributions in pursuit of technological innovation, please contact Jane Patiag at [email protected].