Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) · Singapore

Alibaba Cloud partnered with Singapore's national AI programme AI Singapore to build the regional multilingual model Qwen-SEA-LION-v4 (released November 2025) based on Tongyi Qwen3-32B: post-trained on more than 100 billion tokens of Southeast Asian language data, covering Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Filipino, Tamil, and other languages; it offers 4-bit/8-bit quantised versions that can run on consumer-grade laptops, is freely available via Hugging Face, and has topped the SEA-HELM leaderboard among open-source models of the same class.

A regional adaptation paradigm of joint post-training with the host country's national AI institution, led by local-language corpora; the shift of the SEA-LION v4 foundation model from a Western model to China's Qwen is seen as a landmark regional win for China's open-source ecosystem

Structured fields

Host country

Singapore

Region

Southeast Asia

AI segment

Large Models / Generative AI

Entry mode

Technology Licensing / Open-source Release

Entry year

2025

Deployment status

Landed

Capital direction

China->host (outbound deployment)

Company group

Alibaba

Local partner

Not disclosed (released open-source and free of charge; partnership details disclosed by the company)

Sources & notes

Record note: Additional note: source_date is precisely 2025-11-24; entry_year = 2025 refers to the year of this project, not the year Alibaba Cloud entered Singapore (Alibaba Cloud's Singapore business and international headquarters predate 2025 by a considerable margin). When cross-referencing with the Alibaba Cloud Singapore AIGCC entry, please do not double-count this as the market-entry year. ⚠ 2026-09-13 全库回扫处置：回扫裁定：SELF_ATTESTED_ONLY（仅企业自证），处置为 NEEDS-NEW-SOURCE。复核员用带浏览器 UA 的 curl 重抓三条来源并逐字比对：source_url 是阿里云自家新闻室 2025-11-24 通稿（署名 Alibaba Cloud、Media Contact 邮箱为 @alibaba-inc.com），属当事中方企业自发材料；TechNode/TNGlobal 一文标题与全部数据同通稿逐字一致、meta author 实测为 TNGlobal Staff、正文自陈 The firm said in a statement，判为逐字转载通稿，非独立；SCMP 正文自陈 Alibaba Group Holding owns the South China Morning Post，股权同源与事实同源双重失败。三条 URL 回溯到同一份通稿，真实事实源头数为 1，原 reliability=High 建立在「三个渠道」的错觉上。本次改动：reliability 由 High 降为 Medium（复核员明确要求立即执行、不设三个月观察期），n_sources 由 3 改为 1（按事实源头数计）。deployment_status 维持 Landed：复核员认定问题出在来源独立性而非状态夸大，不接受改为 Announced-concrete。恢复 High 需补入非当事方的独立来源，如 Hugging Face 平台侧建仓/下载量/第三方派生仓记录、SEA-HELM 之外的第三方评测、或有署名记者的独立采写；AISG 自家网站与 aisingapore 的 HF 账号属交易对手方自发材料，不计入独立源。展示层应标注「仅企业自证」，并注明 SEA-HELM 榜单由交易对手方 AI Singapore 自办。

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