Indonesia’s technology leaders have launched an initiative to bring sovereign AI to the nation’s more than 277 million Indonesian speakers.
The collaboration is grounded in a broad public-private partnership that reflects the nation’s concept of “gotong royong,” a term describing a spirit of mutual assistance and community collaboration.
Sahabat-AI is a collection of open-source Indonesian large language models (LLMs) that local industries, government agencies, universities and research centers can use to create generative AI applications.
Built with NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA NIM microservices, the models were launched today at Indonesia AI Day.
Artificial intelligence will democratize technology. It is the great equalizer,” said Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO.
NVIDIA subsidiary Lintasarta built the high-performance AI cloud within three months, bolstered by the NVIDIA Cloud Partner program.
IOH is developing applications for industry-specific use cases based on its new AI cloud, Sahabat-AI and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.
Hippocratic AI is using the models, the NVIDIA AI platform and IOH’s sovereign AI cloud to develop digital agents that can have humanlike conversations, exhibit empathic qualities, and build rapport and trust with patients across Indonesia.
Indonesia’s leading on-demand transport services, GoTo, is adopting and enhancing the new Sahabat-AI models to integrate with its AI voice assistant, called Dira.
Beyond Indonesia, NVIDIA NIM microservices are bolstering sovereign AI models that support local languages in India, Japan, Taiwan and many other countries and regions.