SEA-LION v1 7B
Singapore's from-scratch 7B model for Southeast Asian languages.
About
SEA-LION v1 7B is AI Singapore's December 2023 flagship: a 7 billion parameter decoder model trained from scratch on 980 billion tokens covering English and ten Southeast Asian languages, including Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino, Tamil, Burmese, Khmer, and Lao.
Built on the MPT architecture with a custom 256K-tokenizer for the region, the base model is released under the MIT license, with an instruct-tuned variant available. It anchored Singapore's sovereign AI push and saw adoption across Southeast Asian enterprises.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 131; Trending score 80/100 from researcher assessment.