Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and GoTo Gojek Tokopedia rolled out Sahabat-AI, a large language model, tailored to the Indonesian languages. This move will help Indonesians in creating AI-powered services and applications in Bahasa Indonesia and other local languages.
AI Singapore and India's Tech Mahindra sponsor the Sahabat-AI project. These partners trained and enhanced language models using the Nvidia AI Enterprise software’s, Nvidia NeMo platform. This means that Sahabat-AI has a richer language understanding while fulfilling Indonesian users’ local requirements.
Sahabat-AI will be released in two versions, an 8 billion and a 9 billion parameter model. This will ensure robust natural language processing capabilities, catering to local Indonesian language demands. The first phase of this project is expected to improve the interaction between AI and local language users greatly.
Further enriching the development of Sahabat-AI is the contribution coming from universities and media organizations within Indonesia. The input ensures that the language model of Sahabat-AI is fine-tuned towards the cultural and contextual aspects of Indonesia.
Sahabat-AI's launch is an unprecedented first step for Indonesia in the AI ecosystem. IT giants like Microsoft are investing more in the country, building data centers.
Sahabat-AI, launched today helps Indonesia become one of the many emerging tech hubs in Southeast Asia. It opens the door to domestic innovation, business, and developer opportunities.