Fluent Isn’t the Same as Understood How GoTo taught AI to think in Indonesian, not just speak it, building upon AI Singapore’s SEA-LION embedding models AI Singapore × GoTo Group Basic language capability can handle grammar just fine, but true linguistic fluency is what gets the meaning right, and not all AI models can make…
Imagine being able to search and ask questions across your documents in English, Malay, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino, and more—all from a simple browser interface. The SEA‑LION Embedding Demo makes this possible. It’s a simple Docker‑based app that utilizes the SEA-LION embedding models to demonstrate: Under the hood, the app combines: This guide is for…
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,…
OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant you run on your own devices. A growing user community configures their OpenClaw assistants to perform autonomous tasks. However, running OpenClaw with commercial API models can incur significant costs. SEA-LION provides free, capable models via the SEA-LION API, making it a good fit for: These steps assume you already…
AI Town presents a fascinating microcosm, a virtual environment where AI-driven characters live, chat and socialise. South East Asian Languages in One Network (SEA-LION) is a family of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) that better understands Southeast Asia’s (SEA) diverse contexts, languages, and cultures. This post describes the installation of AI Town, and how SEA-LION…
In our earlier post, we have shown how to leverage on Amazon Bedrock‘s Custom Model Import to deploy SEA-LION on the cloud. After importing the SEA-LION models, you can build applications with the AWS SDK. This article describes an alternative method to build the applications with OpenAI-compatible APIs served by the Bedrock Access Gateway. Prerequisites…
The SEA-LION models are open source and freely available for research and commercial use. A common question we receive from developers is how to host and configure SEA-LION for model inference in their own environments. When it comes to deploying our models, organizations have several hosting options available to them. One such approach involves using…
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the ability to communicate across languages is more important than ever. Whether you’re building a customer service bot, an AI assistant, or any other type of interactive application, ensuring your chatbot can handle multiple languages is a step toward reaching a global audience. Enter SEA-LION — a multilingual large…