Tagged for OEG Connect: MERaLiON

What’s of interest? MERaLiON

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The vision is to develop multimodal LLMs tailored for Singapore and Southeast Asia, with a unique ability to understand context, values, and the region’s diverse cultures and languages.

MERaLiON is a multimodal large language model developed by ASTAR Institute for Infocomm Research (ASTAR I2R). This research is supported by the National Research Foundation, Singapore and Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore under its National Large Language Models Funding Initiative.

Where is it?: https://www.meralion.ai/


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Thanks, Alan! This is really interesting — MERaLiON sounds like an inspiring regional model. It’s great to see such initiatives that value cultural and linguistic diversity. :clap:

At Almayzab Digital Library, we also value and support multilingual and open knowledge initiatives that strengthen collaboration and understanding across regions. :books::sparkles:

Wisal Alim
Almayzab Digital Library
Sudan :sudan: