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SEA-LION

Open-source family of LLMs trained for Southeast Asian languages

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About SEA-LION

SEA-LION (Southeast Asian Languages In One Network) is an open-source LLM family built by AI Singapore under the National Multimodal LLM Programme. Trained on regional data spanning Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Malay, Burmese, Khmer, Lao, and more. Released free under permissive licenses, with SEA-LION v4 adding multimodal (image + text) support and 256K context.

Key Features

Open weights (MIT-leaning) on Hugging Face
Trained on 11+ SEA languages
Multimodal v4 with image + text input
256K native context window
SEA-Guard safety models for the region
SEA-LION-Embedding for regional retrieval

Best For

SEA-language chatbots and agentsRegional document understandingSelf-hosted AI for compliance-sensitive teamsResearchers and AI startups in ASEAN

Pricing

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Details

CategoryAI Assistant
LanguagesEN, ID, TH
Updated2026-05-06