Machined for Malaysia: This AI startup is putting local flavour into large language models

As generative artificial intelligence becomes a global sensation, startups are infusing it with local data to give it a Malaysian flavour. — Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik

Big names such as OpenAI’s GPT models (including the well-known ChatGPT) and, to a lesser extent, Meta’s LLaMa and Google’s PaLM have made their mark on the large language model (LLM) field, but this doesn’t fully depict the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape in Malaysia.

Since the AI boom of last year, the world has found itself in what appears to be an arms race to develop progressively sophisticated models, and Malaysia is no exception.