On November 25, 2025, Singapore's National Artificial Intelligence Initiative (AISG) made a strategic adjustment, opting to abandon the Meta model in its latest Southeast Asian language large-scale model project and instead adopting Alibaba's Tongyi QianWen Qwen open-source architecture. The launched "Qwen-SEA-LION-v4" model quickly topped the open-source rankings for Southeast Asian language capabilities. This move aims to address the previous model's poor performance in handling regional languages.
