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Indonesia to build AI chatbot modeled on China’s DeepSeek: Luhut
Built by young local developers, the AI model will be cost-effective, Luhut noted, since DeepSeek was open source.
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This illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone on Jan. 28, 2025, in Hong Kong. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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ndonesia is set to have its own large language model (LLM), similar to China's DeepSeek, a suite of artificial intelligence models and chatbot apps, according to a senior presidential advisor.
National Economic Council (DEN) head Luhut Pandjaitan said on Tuesday that the initiative is part of a broader digitalization push to improve efficiency in the country.
An early version was expected to be presented soon to President Prabowo Subianto alongside the launch of Danantara, the country’s new sovereign wealth fund, he added.
“The President asked, ‘How successful is this?’ I told him, ‘If we don’t try, how will we ever know?’,” Luhut said during a panel discussion at the Indonesia Economic Summit hosted by the Indonesia Business Council at the Shangri-La hotel in Jakarta.
Read also: Tech leaders call DeepSeek ‘game changer’, but will it help RI catch up?
AI chatbots are computer programs designed to mimic human-style conversation.
Users can ask the bot questions and it then generates responses based on information it has been trained on and what it can access from the internet.
