Several Southeast Asia language models have emerged in the burgeoning space of multilingual LLMs. This session from the AIMX Singapore 2024 conference brings together the open-source Southeast Asia LLM projects for a collaborative discussion on unlocking the benefits of LLMs uniquely tailored to Southeast Asia’s diverse cultural context.

Moderator

Prof Simon Chesterman, Senior Director (AI Governance) AI Singapore

Panellists

Dr Leslie Teo, Senior Director (AI Products), AI Singapore

Dr Longxu Dou, Lead Researcher, SEA AI Lab

Dr Wenxuan Zhang, former Lead Researcher, Alibaba DAMO Academy

Key Highlights

- Can local language LLMs compete with the larger English LLMs? (00:02:28)

- Are there benefits with being a smaller local language LLM? (00:06:11)

- Cultural uniqueness and inherent guardrails (00:13:41)

- Training data vs interests of local communities (00:23:49)

- Crystal-ball gazing: what will be the local conversations on LLMs? (00:37:25)