As part of the Vietnam New Economy Forum 2025, co-chaired by Head of the Central Economic Commission Nguyen Thanh Nghi and Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc, CMC Corporation was honored with the “Top 10 Vietnamese Brands Reaching New Heights 2025” award on October 2, 2025, in Hanoi.

At the same event, Nguyen Trung Chinh – Chairman of the Board and Executive Chairman of CMC, the leader who laid the foundation for the open technology ecosystem C-OpenAI – was named among the “Top 10 Outstanding Entrepreneurs 2025”.

From a small company to a leading brand

Founded in 1993 with just two co-founders, CMC has steadily evolved into a leading technology corporation with nearly 6,000 employees. The company operates across four core pillars: Digital Infrastructure, Technology & Solutions, Global Business, and Research & Education.

The “Top 10 Vietnamese Brands Reaching New Heights 2025” award is reserved for enterprises that make significant contributions in strategic sectors, demonstrating strong international integration and sustainable impact.

With more than 32 years of development, CMC is now ranked among the Top 2 listed technology companies in Vietnam, according to Forbes Vietnam (2024–2025), and has established itself as a pioneer in AI transformation and global expansion.

CMC has made its mark through key strategic efforts:

It has developed a network of Hyperscale Data Centers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, serving as the backbone for digital and AI transformation in Vietnam and the wider region.

It has built CMC Cloud, Vietnam’s leading domestic cloud computing platform, meeting international standards and boosting the country’s digital capacity.

It launched the “AI Made in Vietnam” C-OpenAI ecosystem, inheriting the C.Ope2n platform (2019) and the AI-X strategy (2024), laying a technological foundation for Vietnam’s AI transformation era.

It has gained global recognition for AI products and solutions. CIVAMS.Face ranked among the top 12 globally (NIST FRVT 2023), CATI-VLM secured a top 12 spot in the Robust Reading Competition 2025, and solutions like C-Health and C-Contract have proven CMC’s capabilities in both R&D and commercialization.

This award not only celebrates internal strength but also affirms the ability to “reach new heights” – bringing Vietnamese intelligence to the world.

A visionary entrepreneur – Nguyen Trung Chinh

If CMC is a pioneering brand, Nguyen Trung Chinh is the visionary behind it.

Since the early 2000s, Chinh has consistently pursued an “Open” philosophy – from localizing Linux to launching the open technology ecosystem C.Ope2n in 2019, initiating the AI-X strategy in 2024, and now shaping the C-OpenAI ecosystem in 2025.

Chinh once remarked: “More than 11 years ago, we began research with the principle of leveraging Vietnamese intelligence, Vietnamese data, and Vietnamese knowledge to build the C-OpenAI ecosystem.”

His long-term vision has elevated CMC from a domestic IT company to a strategic partner of the Government in national digital transformation projects – from e-Government to Digital Government.

He currently serves on several national and Hanoi-based advisory councils for science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation, contributing to the development of macro-level policy.

To many experts, Nguyen Trung Chinh is not just a successful businessman but a visionary entrepreneur – someone who aligns business goals with national aspirations.

As Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat, Chairman of the Council at the National Economics University, noted: “CMC is one of the pioneering enterprises proving that Vietnam not only consumes technology but can also produce, master, and lead in technology.”

Vietnam’s aspiration on the global tech map

At the award ceremony, Nguyen Trung Chinh shared his heartfelt sentiments: “This award is not only for CMC or myself, but for the aspiration of Vietnam to master technology. We will remain steadfast in our journey of ‘Make in Vietnam – Go Global’, so that when the world speaks of global technology, they will think of Vietnam.”

With the goal of becoming a billion-dollar global technology corporation with over 10,000 employees by 2028, CMC is turning its vision into reality through its core technologies, national digital transformation projects, and long-term strategy.

The simultaneous recognition of CMC as one of the “Top 10 Vietnamese Brands Reaching New Heights 2025” and Nguyen Trung Chinh as one of the “Top 10 Outstanding Entrepreneurs 2025” is a milestone that affirms not only the company’s strength but also the stature of its leadership.

It represents more than a corporate success story – it is a testament to the potential of Vietnamese private enterprises to rise to global prominence when they dare to dream big, act boldly, and carry the national aspiration to shape the digital future.

Thuy Nga