Indonesia puts local spin on generative AI with culture, languages

GoTo and Indosat team up to complement models rooted in Western values

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Indonesia's Universitas Terbuka developed an AI assistant for students powered by Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service. (Photo by Aiko Munakata)

AIKO MUNAKATA, Nikkei staff writer

JAKARTA -- Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population, is developing generative AI systems centered on its own culture and languages as a complement to Western-focused models.

GoTo, a unit of GoTo Gojek Tokopedia, in November, unveiled Sahabat-AI, a large language model developed in partnership with wireless carrier Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison that has been trained mainly on texts in Bahasa Indonesia and other local languages such as Javanese.

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