Alibaba powers AI Singapore's latest large language model

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, announced on Tuesday its support for the latest version of a large language model developed by AI Singapore (AISG), in what is a significant expansion of China's open-source AI models on the global stage.

The newly launched LLM Qwen-SEA-LION-v4 is based on Alibaba's Qwen3-32B foundation model, and, according to Alibaba Cloud, its launch is a major step in AISG's efforts to deliver increasingly capable and accessible AI solutions for the region.

The model boasts advanced reasoning, multilingual support, and long-context understanding tailored for Southeast Asian languages, addressing linguistic, cultural and commercial needs in the region.

Alibaba Cloud said the base Qwen3-32B model has been further trained on over 100 billion Southeast Asian language tokens to enhance its ability to interpret local expressions, conversational nuances and regional knowledge domains.

AI Singapore is a program launched by the National Research Foundation of Singapore to catalyze, synergize and boost the country's capacity to power its digital economy through AI.

As part of the collaboration, Alibaba provided the Qwen3-32B foundation model and technical support for advanced post-training, while AI Singapore contributed their open-source region-specific data curation, optimization and evaluation across Southeast Asian language tasks.

By combining the model's multilingual and reasoning strengths with AI Singapore's deep regional expertise, Qwen-SEA-LION-v4 demonstrates how open collaboration can make advanced AI more inclusive and locally relevant, said Choong Hon Keat, general manager of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Singapore.

"We look forward to enabling more developers, enterprises and public-sector partners to build applications that truly understand the languages and cultures of this region," he added.