Singapore's national AI project abandons Meta and turns to Alibaba's Qwen model

PANews, November 25 - According to the Shanghai Securities News, the Artificial Intelligence Singapore Agency (AISG) has abandoned the Meta Llama model in its latest Southeast Asian Language Large Model Project, opting instead for Alibaba's Tongyi Qwen architecture. As of now, the global downloads of the Qwen series have exceeded 600 million. It is reported that the “Qwen-SEA-LION-v4” released by AISG on November 25 ranks first in the Southeast Asian language capability leaderboard. Previously, open-source models represented by Meta's Llama series performed poorly when handling regional languages such as Indonesian, Thai, and Malay, severely limiting the development efficiency and performance of localized AI applications.