BIG DATA Co., Ltd. (BIG DATA), Taiwan's leading data technology company, has again earned international and domestic recognition for its AI technology and enterprise deployment results. The company announced today that KEYLM, its enterprise knowledge AI agent platform, has won The WITSA Global Award for AI Entrepreneurship at the WITSA Global AI Awards 2026, while AI Insight Partner, its human-AI co-intelligence insight assistant, has received the inaugural Taiwan AI Excellence Award (臺灣 AI 卓越獎) in the “AI Enterprise Transformation Pioneer: Excellence” category.
BIG DATA General Manager Mark Wen (温紹郁) and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Sam Meng (孟令三) represented the company at the 2026 Taiwan AI Excellence Award ceremony and the WITSA Global AI Summit gala dinner, where they received the two awards from Minister of Digital Affairs Yi-Jing Lin (林宜敬), WITSA Chairman Dato' Dr. Sean Seah, and Chinese Software Guild Chairman Shen Bo-Yen (沈柏延), respectively. Dr. Sam Meng also demonstrated KEYLM at the WITSA Global AI Award international press conference, showing how the platform addresses real-world pain points in enterprise AI adoption by starting with an organization's internal knowledge.
“The next stage of enterprise AI adoption isn't about pursuing more powerful models. It's about how AI can truly understand a company's own data, knowledge, and workflows,” said Mark Wen. “These two awards, spanning on-premise enterprise AI and AI-driven workflow transformation, reflect BIG DATA's ability to turn data, models, and enterprise knowledge into real business value, and to move AI development from research into industry-wide deployment. We will continue deepening the collaboration between AI and enterprise knowledge, data, and human expertise, helping more companies bring AI into their everyday operations and decision-making.”
On-Premise Enterprise AI Wins International Recognition: KEYLM Takes Home a WITSA Global AI Awards
The World Innovation, Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) has long recognized innovative and influential organizations across the global ICT industry. This year marked the inaugural WITSA Global AI Awards, honoring companies and applications with global impact, scalability, and innovation in artificial intelligence. BIG DATA's KEYLM enterprise knowledge AI agent platform won The WITSA Global Award for AI Entrepreneurship, demonstrating how Taiwan's AI capabilities, built on local data advantages and enterprise knowledge applications, can scale across industries worldwide.
According to Fortune Business Insights, the global sovereign cloud market is projected to grow from USD 195.35 billion in 2026 to USD 1.32 trillion by 2034, a compound annual growth rate of 27%, as enterprise demand for data localization and AI sovereignty continues to rise. Built on more than a decade of BIG DATA's Chinese-language data assets and its proprietary domain language model, BIG10, KEYLM draws on the KEYDATA cloud, which has accumulated over 6.5 billion data records and processes more than 200 billion Chinese-language data points each month. Integrated with the NVIDIA NeMo framework, KEYLM helps enterprises convert internal documents, SOPs, technical materials, and legacy systems into enterprise knowledge that AI agents can understand and apply, while supporting on-premise, private cloud, and hybrid cloud deployment to meet enterprise requirements for data security and sovereignty.
BIG DATA has now served more than 1,000 enterprises and organizations, with its technology extending into manufacturing, government, healthcare, and cultural IP applications. Through a “single core, multiple applications” strategy, the company rapidly deploys the same core model and platform architecture across different industries and use cases, and is progressively expanding into Japanese- and English-language markets, demonstrating its ability to scale from core technology to commercial applications.
From 20 Days to One: AI Insight Partner Wins Inaugural Taiwan AI Excellence Award
Alongside KEYLM, BIG DATA's AI Insight Partner, a human-AI co-intelligence insight assistant developed from the company's own operational results, won the “AI Enterprise Transformation Pioneer: Excellence” category at the inaugural Taiwan AI Excellence Award. By deeply embedding AI into its data insight workflow, BIG DATA demonstrated how AI can move beyond improving efficiency to driving genuine transformation in organizational and service models. The award, organized by the Taiwan Information Software and Service Industry Association (TISSA), recognizes outstanding examples of applying AI to public service optimization and industry transformation.
Before adopting AI, BIG DATA's analytics team relied on its KEYPO public opinion analysis software to manually filter noise, compile data, generate insights, and prepare presentations, a process that took more than 20 working days to produce a complete insight report. After optimizing its workflow and introducing AI collaboration, the team cut that timeline to within a single working day, reducing overall report production time by 80% and time spent on basic data preparation by nearly 80%, while increasing the share of high-value strategic insight work by 50%. The team also established a standardized five-step process: keyword setup, prompt refinement, AI-generated drafting, human-AI collaborative review, and final report delivery.
This model has since expanded beyond the analytics team to the brand marketing team's ESG brand risk management work, validating its feasibility across departments and use cases. It has now been productized as AI Insight Partner, a new service model that pairs human-AI co-intelligence with expert guidance: AI handles the bulk of data organization, analysis, and initial drafting, while professional analysts focus on validation, interpretation, and strategic recommendations. Through this offering, BIG DATA is bringing its own AI transformation experience to enterprise clients, positioning AI not just as a tool for efficiency, but as a partner that amplifies both human expertise and organizational decision-making.
Looking ahead, BIG DATA will continue to build on its proprietary Chinese-language data assets and AI capabilities, deepening its BIG10 domain language model, KEYPO public opinion analysis software, KEYLM enterprise knowledge AI agent platform, and AI agent technologies and products. By connecting data, models, enterprise knowledge, and real-world workflows, the company aims to build a complete AI Data Intelligence capability. BIG DATA will also continue driving cross-industry AI adoption and overseas market expansion, helping enterprises move beyond simply “adopting AI” to truly transforming it into a sustainable, scalable operational and decision-making capability.
Beyond Tokyo and Osaka: Taiwanese Travelers Enter the "Repeat Visit Era" as Fukuoka Buzz Surges Over 85% Year-on-Year
As Japan shifts from "where to go first" to "where to go next," the travel map for Taiwanese visitors to Japan is changing. BIG DATA Co., Ltd., Taiwan's leading data technology company, today (27th) released its latest report, Japan's Regional Cities Strike Back: How Emerging Travel Favorites Are Capturing Taiwanese Curiosity. Using KEYPO Big Data Intelligence, its public opinion analytics software, to track online buzz related to Taiwanese travel to Japan between January 1, 2023 and May 31, 2026, the report finds that Taiwanese travelers' interest in regional cities outside Japan's three major metropolitan areas continues to grow. In the first five months of 2026, regional cities accounted for 35% of total travel-related buzz, up markedly from 29% in 2023 — while the share held by the three major metropolitan areas has declined year over year from 51%, signaling that Taiwanese travelers' destination choices in Japan are steadily extending outward. Among regional destinations, Fukuoka Prefecture topped the growth chart with an 85.49% year-on-year increase in buzz, driven by newly launched direct flights from Taiwan, the ability to self-drive across Kyushu, and the rise of immersive local experiences. Kumamoto Prefecture and Okinawa Prefecture followed closely with growth of 46.36% and 45% respectively, emerging as the most notable "regional dark horses" on the Japan travel map. Weiwei Chiang, COO of BIG DATA, said that as Taiwanese travelers accumulate more trips to Japan, and as regional direct flight routes and self-drive/charter travel options expand, travel decisions are shifting from checking off popular landmarks to seeking in-depth local experiences. The rise of regional cities reflects more than a reshuffling of popular destination rankings — it marks Taiwanese travelers' formal entry into a "Repeat Visit Era" centered on local exploration, personal interests, and immersive experiences, sending an important signal for tourism operators, airlines, and local governments to reposition their strategies.
Accelerating Global Expansion: BIG DATA Takes the Stage at the 2026 Japan-Taiwan Innovation Summit
Following its first-ever participation in SusHi Tech Tokyo in Japan this past April and its appearance at 2026 LEAP East in Hong Kong in July, BIG DATA Co., Ltd. — Taiwan's leading data technology company — will make its debut appearance at the 2026 Japan-Taiwan Innovation Summit on August 18-19, the flagship annual international innovation event launched by Startup Island TAIWAN, the national startup brand created by Taiwan's National Development Council (NDC). The summit brings together key Taiwan-Japan representatives including NDC Minister Chun-Hsien Yeh, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, and JETRO Director Tomohiro Takashima, making it one of the highest-visibility annual exchange events for Taiwanese startups in Japan. BIG DATA will showcase two AI solutions to Japanese enterprises and industry partners: the newly upgraded “KEYPO Agent” and the “KEYLM — Private AI Platform for Enterprise Knowledge”, demonstrating Taiwan's technical capabilities in AI, data governance, and enterprise decision-making applications, while continuing to pursue local partnership opportunities to deepen its presence in the Japanese market. WeiWei Chiang, COO and Spokesperson of BIG DATA, said Japan is one of the company's key markets for overseas expansion. From participating in international exhibitions and engaging local enterprises to seeking technical and business collaboration opportunities, BIG DATA hopes that sustained, long-term market engagement will help it better understand the actual needs of Japanese enterprises and bring Taiwan's mature data and AI application experience into the Japanese market.
BIG DATA's KEYLM Intelligent Government Assistant Runs on NVIDIA's Integrated Hardware-Software Architecture
BIG DATA Co., Ltd., a leading data technology company in Taiwan, today announced the launch of KEYLM, an intelligent government assistant solution purpose-built for government decision support and legislative briefing. KEYLM brings together BIG10 (the company's proprietary domain language model trained on over 6.5 billion Traditional Chinese tokens accumulated over more than a decade) with an AI Agent platform, powered by NVIDIA DGX Spark as its on-premises compute foundation. By incorporating NVIDIA NeMo Framework and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit to strengthen model fine-tuning and Agent governance, KEYLM delivers a full-stack, single-device on-premises deployment that keeps responses traceable, processes auditable, and performance elevated. "Sovereign AI demand is accelerating globally, and public sector agencies are under growing pressure to keep data on-premises while meeting increasingly strict security and compliance requirements," said Weiwei Chiang(蔣志薇), COO and Spokesperson of BIG DATA. "KEYLM runs on NVIDIA's integrated hardware-software architecture, and at the same time fills a longstanding gap: Traditional Chinese has historically been underrepresented in international AI training data. We built KEYLM to give government agencies an AI model that genuinely understands Taiwan's linguistic and institutional context, and solves three real operational problems: fragmented institutional knowledge, slow and inconsistent manual synthesis, and the inability to move sensitive data to the cloud."