Indosat and GoTo launch the Indonesian AI language model
Sahabat-AI will enable local developers to create culturally relevant applications.
Indonesia‘s top telecom company, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, and tech giant GoTo Gojek Tokopedia launched Sahabat-AI, a new large language model ecosystem designed to support AI-based services in Indonesian languages. This initiative aims to empower local developers to create applications that reflect Indonesia’s diverse languages and cultural nuances.
The Sahabat-AI project is supported by AI Singapore and India’s Tech Mahindra, using Nvidia’s AI Enterprise software and the Nvidia NeMo platform for robust language processing capabilities. Contributions from universities and media groups will further tailor the model to Indonesia’s unique context.
In its initial phase, Sahabat-AI will offer 8-billion and 9-billion parameter models, highlighting Indonesia’s growing AI sector, which has already drawn significant investment interest, including a recent data centre pledge from Microsoft.
