Ramachandran Singapore Singapore city Singapore innovations Gap Waves Provident Citizens Strategy Enterprise Ramachandran Singapore Singapore city Singapore

Singapore Sets $52 Million AI Initiative to Develop Southeast Asian Large Language Models

Reading now: 546
variety.com

Naman Ramachandran Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) is teaming with AI Singapore and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research to launch the S$70 million ($52.3 million) National Multimodal LLM Program (NMLP).

The initiative, funded by Singapore’s National Research Foundation, will develop the country’s research and engineering capabilities in multi-modal large language (LLM) models.

It will help to plug a critical gap because current LLM models are heavily Western originated. Singapore’s NMLP is designed to develop the Southeast Asian ecosystem and cater to the region’s diverse culture and languages.

A base model with regional context that can understand Singapore’s and the region’s unique linguistic characteristics and multi-lingual environment, will be developed. “This effort will enhance the nation’s capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) research and innovation, leveraging high-performance computing resources by the National Supercomputing Centre.

Read more on variety.com
The website starsalert.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA