SEA-LION | Empowering Open Multilingual AI for Southeast Asia
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SEA-LION | Empowering Open Multilingual AI for Southeast Asia
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Catalysing AI Innovation for
Southeast Asia
SEA-LION is a family of efficient, open-source, multilingual, multimodal language models designed to understand Southeast Asia’s diverse languages, cultures, and contexts.
SEA-LION Telegram
SEA-LION Playground
Latest Announcements
SEA-LION Insights
Stay up to date with the latest developments from SEA-LION. Our blog features updates on model releases, research breakthroughs, datasets, benchmarks, and stories from the growing Southeast Asian AI community.
Recently published:
Explore Multilingual Search and RAG with the SEA‑LION Embedding Demo
March 19, 2026
Read More
Bridging the Semantic Gap: Announcing the SEA-LION Embedding Suite
March 16, 2026
Read More
Project Aquarium: Mapping Language Data for a More Inclusive AI Future, From Southeast Asia to the World
March 13, 2026
Read More
Model Catalogue
Explore our family of models and see our latest release.
Explore Model
Aquarium Data Platform
Join our community-driven open data platform for Southeast Asia. Contribute and explore datasets powering future models.
Explore Aquarium
SEA-HELM Leaderboard
Track model performance and gain insights with SEA-HELM, assessing large language models across Southeast Asian languages, chat, instruction-following, regional tasks, and English capabilities.
View Leaderboard
Capabilities
Powering linguistic and cultural understanding across Southeast Asia
SEA-LION is designed to capture the intricate linguistic and cultural nuances of under-represented population groups and low resource languages across Southeast Asian communities.
Open & Collaborative
Fully open-source and community-driven
Framework-agnostic for research and commercial use
Regional Excellence
Complements existing models and benefits from SOTA models & fine-tuned on SEA data
Purpose-built to understand SEA cultures and contexts
Resource Efficient
High performance even on low infrastructure
Quantised models deployable on lightweight setups, like laptops
Multimodal
Supports both image and text inputs (audio soon)
Enables document comprehension, visual Q&A, and reasoning
Multilingual & Multicultural
Performant in over 11 Southeast Asian languages
Produces culturally aligned and context-aware outputs
Safe & Secure
Safety-tuned for SEA contexts
Aligned with human-curated data for reliable results
SEA-LION’s Guiding Principles
Choice
Users have the freedom to choose how to interact:
Closed vs Open
Build vs Buy
East vs West
Model
Independence
Open
Users have visibility on how it is being built:
Data
Models
Evaluations
Code Checkpoints
Responsible
Users understand the ethical reasoning behind how our models are:
Built
Aligned
Deployed
Inclusive
Users have a model that is relevant for their demographics:
Representative
Aligned
Collaborative
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Skip to content
Catalysing AI Innovation for
Southeast Asia
SEA-LION is a family of efficient, open-source, multilingual, multimodal language models designed to understand Southeast Asia’s diverse languages, cultures, and contexts.
SEA-LION Telegram
SEA-LION Playground
Latest Announcements
SEA-LION Insights
Stay up to date with the latest developments from SEA-LION. Our blog features updates on model releases, research breakthroughs, datasets, benchmarks, and stories from the growing Southeast Asian AI community.
Recently published:
Explore Multilingual Search and RAG with the SEA‑LION Embedding Demo
March 19, 2026
Read More
Bridging the Semantic Gap: Announcing the SEA-LION Embedding Suite
March 16, 2026
Read More
Project Aquarium: Mapping Language Data for a More Inclusive AI Future, From Southeast Asia to the World
March 13, 2026
Read More
Model Catalogue
Explore our family of models and see our latest release.
Explore Model
Aquarium Data Platform
Join our community-driven open data platform for Southeast Asia. Contribute and explore datasets powering future models.
Explore Aquarium
SEA-HELM Leaderboard
Track model performance and gain insights with SEA-HELM, assessing large language models across Southeast Asian languages, chat, instruction-following, regional tasks, and English capabilities.
View Leaderboard
Capabilities
Powering linguistic and cultural understanding across Southeast Asia
SEA-LION is designed to capture the intricate linguistic and cultural nuances of under-represented population groups and low resource languages across Southeast Asian communities.
Open & Collaborative
Fully open-source and community-driven
Framework-agnostic for research and commercial use
Regional Excellence
Complements existing models and benefits from SOTA models & fine-tuned on SEA data
Purpose-built to understand SEA cultures and contexts
Resource Efficient
High performance even on low infrastructure
Quantised models deployable on lightweight setups, like laptops
Multimodal
Supports both image and text inputs (audio soon)
Enables document comprehension, visual Q&A, and reasoning
Multilingual & Multicultural
Performant in over 11 Southeast Asian languages
Produces culturally aligned and context-aware outputs
Safe & Secure
Safety-tuned for SEA contexts
Aligned with human-curated data for reliable results
SEA-LION’s Guiding Principles
Choice
Users have the freedom to choose how to interact:
Closed vs Open
Build vs Buy
East vs West
Model
Independence
Open
Users have visibility on how it is being built:
Data
Models
Evaluations
Code Checkpoints
Responsible
Users understand the ethical reasoning behind how our models are:
Built
Aligned
Deployed
Inclusive
Users have a model that is relevant for their demographics:
Representative
Aligned
Collaborative
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