Today, we are announcing the SEA-LION embedding suite. It’s the BEST embedding for Southeast Asian use. Proven on SEA-BED To ensure these models actually perform where it matters, we evaluated them on SEA-BED (Southeast Asia Embedding Benchmark). Unlike global benchmarks that rely on machine translation, SEA-BED uses human-curated data across 10 regional languages, including Tetum,…
AI is poised to transform the world, and to ensure this transformation benefits everyone, it must be inclusive of all languages and cultures. This is particularly crucial in regions like Southeast Asia, where a wealth of local languages and deep cultural nuances are often overlooked by today’s global Large Language Models (LLMs) despite being home…
At AI Singapore, we are deeply committed to the principle that AI must be a force for good, enhancing the well-being of all communities that form the backbone of our society. In Singapore, migrant workers play a vital role in society – from building our homes and infrastructure to caring for our families and loved…
We are expanding the SEA-LION v4 family to include small, efficient, fully open model as well as regionally-aware Vision-Language (VL) model. Today, the SEA-LION v4 family expands with two of our newest small models: Gemma-SEA-LION-v4-4B-VL (The Small but Mighty) Built on Google’s Gemma 3, this 4B model further builds on the existing multilingual capabilities to…
As AI systems become more deeply embedded in products, services, and public-facing applications across Southeast Asia, safety cannot be an afterthought. What is SEA-Guard? We are excited to announce, SEA-Guard, our new collection of safety-focused Large Language Models (LLMs) built upon the SEA-LION family. These models are specifically fine-tuned to detect, moderate, and handle content…
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are changing how AI perceives and describes the world—but does your AI see and explain the real Southeast Asia? Adding to our family of models from Llama, Gemma and Qwen, we are proud to announce the release of small but powerful multilingual and multicultural text models. Like Gemma, these models also support…
AISG brings together developers, industry leaders, and regional partners to showcase how open, localised AI is solving real-world challenges across Southeast Asia. AI Singapore (AISG) hosted the inaugural SEA-LION Summit: Powering Southeast Asia’s AI Future at AIMX Singapore, bringing together policymakers, developers, researchers, and organisations from across the region for an afternoon of knowledge sharing,…
We are proud to introduce Qwen-SEA-LION-v4-32B-IT, a new iteration of our powerful multilingual model series specifically trained for Southeast Asia. This initial experimental version represents a significant architectural evolution, transitioning from a sentence-piece tokenizer to a more modern byte-pair encoding (BPE) for superior text handling. Built upon the powerful Qwen3-32B foundation model, Qwen-SEA-LION-v4-32B-IT inherits long-context…
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Gemma-SEA-LION-v4-27B-VL, a cutting-edge, instruction-tuned vision-text model designed specifically for the unique and diverse landscape of Southeast Asia. This release is the result of a powerful collaboration between the Products Pillar at AI Singapore and SEACrowd, with funding from the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF). A Multimodal Model…
As large language models (LLMs) become part of our everyday digital lives, ensuring their outputs are safe, ethical, and compliant is more important than ever. That’s where SEA-Guard comes in — a specialized model built to act as a protective layer around foundation models, keeping both user inputs and AI outputs within safe boundaries. What…