Daphne Yow · · 1 min readTokopedia, NCS among companies in pilot run of AI language model for SEA
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Indonesian ecommerce platform Tokopedia and Singapore IT player NCS are among the companies that are testing an AI large language model (LLM) being developed in Singapore.
The LLM is being developed by AI Singapore, a national AI program. LLMs are AI models that can understand and generate human-like speech or conversation.
Dubbed Sea-Lion – short for Southeast Asian Languages in One Network – it will be trained to understand and generate output that incorporates the region’s diverse languages and cultures.
The model’s use cases currently include ecommerce, legal, IT, and customer-service functions, said Leslie Teo, senior director of AI products at AI Singapore, during a media briefing today.
Tokopedia, for example, uses Sea-Lion to generate product descriptions in other Southeast Asian languages.
NCS uses the model to translate content used in its legal compliance process into Bahasa Indonesia and Thai. The AI models it had been using were built on LLMs in English, said Teo.
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This story was republished with permission from The Business Times. It was moderately edited to reflect Tech in Asia’s editorial guidelines.
Editing by Miguel Cordon and Dhania Putri Sarahtika
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