Closing the Divide: Developing Southeast Asian and Multilingual LLMs

Dr Wenxuan Zhang shares his perspective why Southeast Asian and multilingual LLMs need to be further developed, and makes a strong case for advancing AI accessibility. Find out more about Dr Zhang's active contributions to two open-source projects: Babel and SeaLLMs-Audio.Key Highlights- The LLM Divide (00:02:00)- The Large Audio-Language Model (00:08:41)- Babel: Serving over 90% of Global Speakers (00:15:36)- How can the LLM Divide be bridged? (00:21:32)- Education and the advancement of AI accessibility (00:26:20)