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Indosat to launch Indonesian-language model for AI in July
The model would allow artificial intelligence (AI) technology, such as ChatGPT, to understand interactions in the local language, the company said.
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Indosat's office in Jakarta is pictured in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Indosat)
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ublicly listed telco firm Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison will launch a large language model (LLM) for the Indonesian language called Garuda in July, according to the company on Tuesday.
The model will allow artificial intelligence technology, such as ChatGPT, to understand interactions in the local language, the company said.
“Today, when you [interact] with ChatGPT, you get results in English. Just imagine a machine talking in Indonesian. A lot of people would benefit and it would happen through NVIDIA’s graphics processing units [GPUs],” Indosat’s CEO Vikram Sinha said in a press briefing on Tuesday.
Indosat signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian developer Tech Mahindra to develop the Garuda language model during the Mobile World Congress in February.
It will be built on the principles of LLM Project Indus, a foundational model designed to converse in Indic languages and dialects.
At the same tech conference, Indosat also announced that it would collaborate with tech giant NVIDIA to allow the telco firm to access NVIDIA’s technology and enable the development of local AI infrastructure in Indonesia.
Indosat will offer AI cloud services to public and private enterprises in the country, through its subsidiary Lintasarta, with the first batch of 1,000 NVIDIA GPUs arriving in July.
