UM to roll out hostel project housing 40,000 students, meeting B40 families’ needs, says Zambry

Universiti Malaya (UM) is set to address student accommodation needs by launching the Student Residential Hostel Project, anticipated to house over 40,000 students.

The initiative, supported by Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Zambry Abdul Kadir, prioritizes students from low-income backgrounds.

Alongside this, UM has introduced ILMUcode, an AI-based coding platform developed with YTL AI Labs, to enhance advanced coding capabilities for students and developers.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 — Universiti Malaya (UM) will provide accommodation for more than 40,000 students through the Student Residential Hostel Project, which is expected to be launched by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Oct 15.

Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said the project was among the models being developed by the government to accelerate the provision of student accommodation at public universities, amid growing demand for housing.

“At UM, as I understand it, the residential hostel will eventually meet the needs of more than 40,000 students. It will be built in stages, but the immediate basic needs must also be addressed,” he said after launching the ILMUcode platform by YTL AI Labs here yesterday.

Zambry said priority for the accommodation would be given to students from low-income families, particularly those from the B40 group, including those who come from faraway places and cannot afford to secure accommodation on their own.

He stressed that the project was not intended solely to generate income but to help address students’ accommodation needs, particularly those from low-income families.

Meanwhile, UM vice-chancellor Datuk Seri Prof Dr Noor Azuan Abu Osman said the project would be implemented in two phases, with the first providing accommodation for 10,000 students and the second for 30,000.

In another development, Noor Azuan said ILMUcode was the first artificial intelligence (AI)-based coding platform introduced at UM, enabling developers and students to access advanced coding capabilities at a lower cost.

He said the platform, developed in collaboration with YTL AI Labs, combines an agentic AI coding assistant with the ILMU-GLM-5.3 model to help users understand, write and modify code, as well as resolve software development problems more quickly.

“We are proud that Universiti Malaya is the first university in Malaysia to give our computer science students access to next-generation advanced AI coding through ILMUcode.

“Through ILMUcode, we can equip the next generation of Malaysian technology developers and strengthen the local AI talent pipeline,” he said. — Bernama

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马来亚大学（UM）将启动学生宿舍项目，以满足学生的住宿需求，预计将容纳超过 40,000 名学生。

这项由高等教育部长拿督斯里赞布里·阿卜杜勒·卡迪尔博士支持的计划，优先考虑来自低收入家庭的学生。

与此同时，马来亚大学还推出了 ILMUcode，这是一个与杨忠礼人工智能实验室合作开发的基于人工智能的编码平台，旨在增强学生和开发人员的高级编码能力。

吉隆坡，10 月 2 日讯——马来亚大学（UM）将通过学生宿舍项目为超过 40,000 名学生提供住宿，该项目预计将于 10 月 15 日由首相拿督斯里安华·易卜拉欣启动。

高等教育部长拿督斯里赞布里·阿卜杜勒·卡迪尔博士表示，该项目是政府为加快公立大学学生宿舍建设而正在开发的模式之一，以应对日益增长的住房需求。

“据我了解，马来亚大学的宿舍最终将满足超过4万名学生的需求。宿舍将分阶段建设，但眼前的基本需求也必须得到满足，”他在昨天于此地启动YTL AI Labs的ILMUcode平台后说道。

Zambry表示，住宿将优先提供给低收入家庭的学生，特别是B40群体的学生，包括那些来自偏远地区且无法自行承担住宿费用的学生。

他强调，该项目的目的不仅仅是为了创收，而是为了帮助解决学生的住宿需求，特别是来自低收入家庭的学生的住宿需求。

与此同时，马来亚大学副校长拿督斯里诺阿祖安·阿布·奥斯曼教授表示，该项目将分两个阶段实施，第一阶段为 10,000 名学生提供住宿，第二阶段为 30,000 名学生提供住宿。

努尔·阿祖安表示，ILMUcode 是马来亚大学推出的第一个基于人工智能 (AI) 的编码平台，使开发人员和学生能够以更低的成本获得高级编码功能。

他表示，该平台是与杨忠礼人工智能实验室合作开发的，它将智能AI编码助手与ILMU-GLM-5.3模型相结合，可以帮助用户理解、编写和修改代码，并更快地解决软件开发问题。

“我们很自豪，马来亚大学是马来西亚第一所通过 ILMUcode 为计算机科学专业的学生提供下一代先进人工智能编码的大学。

“通过ILMUcode，我们可以培养下一代马来西亚技术开发人员，并加强本地人工智能人才储备，”他说道。——马新社

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