The roadmap’s six strategies were the theory. The eleven National AI Use Cases were the practice — the concrete, fundable projects that were supposed to prove AI’s value in domains that matter to Malaysians, and to seed industries around them. They were the most tangible promises the AI-Rmap made.
So what became of them? The honest answer is the same one that recurs throughout this review: with the AI-Catalyst and its consortia never becoming the operating structure, and no central body reporting outcomes, the fate of the eleven projects was largely never made public. Below is the full set, with the priority areas the roadmap assigned them, and an honest status for each.
“Outcome not publicly reported” does not mean a project never happened — some elements may have progressed inside ministries or universities. It means no public reporting ties a delivered result back to the roadmap’s use-case programme. The absence of a project-level scorecard is itself the finding.
The eleven use cases, by priority area
Seven were assigned to the three priority areas (agriculture, healthcare, smart cities & transport); four to education and public services.
A pattern, not a coincidence
The use cases were structurally dependent on Strategy 6: each was meant to be delivered by an AI Catalyst Consortium, funded partly through the Malaysia Grand Challenge Fund and government-industry matching grants. When the consortium model did not take hold, the delivery vehicle for all eleven projects effectively went with it.
This is why a project-by-project verdict is impossible from the outside — and why that impossibility is the point. A government that delivers eleven flagship AI projects has eleven launch events, eleven case studies, eleven sets of results to publicise. Malaysia’s AI story from 2024 onward is told instead through the National AI Office and the data-centre boom — not through these projects.
The eleven use cases and their priority-area assignments are from Strategy 6 of the National AI Roadmap 2021–2025 (MOSTI; archived here). Statuses reflect the absence of public outcome reporting tied to the roadmap’s use-case programme as of 2026; they are not determinations that individual projects failed.
Full sources: airmap.my/sources. Independent of MOSTI, the Ministry of Digital and NAIO.