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NVIDIA releases SEA-LION-v4.8 models for Southeast Asian languages

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NVIDIA has released a technical report detailing the SEA-LION-v4.8 family of models, built upon the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 architecture. These models, including 30B-A3B and 120B-A12B variants, have been enhanced with Southeast Asian, reasoning, code, and multilingual datasets. The SEA-LION models show significant improvements on the SEA-HELM benchmark, particularly in instruction following, natural language reasoning, and understanding across seven Southeast Asian languages. AI

IMPACT Enhances AI capabilities for Southeast Asian languages, potentially improving accessibility and performance in the region.

RANK_REASON Technical report detailing a new family of language models with performance improvements on a specific benchmark. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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NVIDIA releases SEA-LION-v4.8 models for Southeast Asian languages

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Ahmed Mohammad Dabeer (David Wang Dawei), Ahn Jeongmi (David Wang Dawei), Anocha Sutaveephamochanon (David Wang Dawei), Antonyrex Sajeban (David Wang Dawei), Aulia Adila (David Wang Dawei), Chan Hok Teng (David Wang Dawei), Adwin (David Wang Dawei), Che… ·

    SEA-LION-v4.8: A Technical Report

    arXiv:2609.18310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Nemotron-SEA-LION-v4.8, a family of Southeast Asian Languages in One Network (SEA-LION) built upon NVIDIA Nemotron 3. The family includes 30B-A3B and 120B-A12B models, with both continued-pretrained base checkpoints and…

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