(Source: Cnet)

The Law on Artificial Intelligence 2025 is Vietnam’s first legislation dedicated solely to AI. It establishes a unified legal framework for AI development and application, ensuring safe, responsible, and human-centered advancement.

The law positions AI as a national intellectual infrastructure and a key driver of productivity, innovation, technological self-reliance, and national competitiveness. It also seeks to create a transparent, humane, and trustworthy legal environment that encourages cooperation, innovation, commercialization, and international integration in the AI sector.

The Law on Investment 2025 introduces major reforms to create a more open and transparent investment environment. It substantially reduces the list of conditional business lines, allows foreign investors to establish enterprises before having specific projects (provided market access conditions are met), and expands special investment procedures.

The law also permits adjustments to project timelines during implementation, abolishes the requirement for investment policy approval for outbound projects, and broadens the scope for project transfers.