Sahabat-AI
Indonesia's open-source LLM for Bahasa Indonesia and regional languages
Overview
Sahabat-AI is an open-source Indonesian LLM developed by GoTo and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, with a 70-billion-parameter model offering multilingual chat. It covers Bahasa Indonesia plus Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese and Bataknese, with all data and GPU infrastructure kept within Indonesia. A free chat service is available via the website and the GoPay app, and weights are published on Hugging Face.
Pricing
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ASEAN Perspective
Sahabat-AI in Southeast Asia
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Sahabat-AI is a flagship Indonesian sovereign-AI effort, notable for genuinely open weights, in-country infrastructure and coverage of several regional languages beyond Bahasa Indonesia. For Indonesian-language applications and data-residency-sensitive deployments it is a strong, free option.
As a young national model its general capability trails global frontier LLMs, and there is no polished commercial API beyond the free chat and open weights. Its ASEAN, specifically Indonesian, relevance is excellent.
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