New MERaLiON update boosts multilingual processing, emotional intelligence

The model now also supports Malay, Tamil, Thai, Indonesian, and Vietnamese languages.

Singapore has updated its large language model, Multimodal Empathetic Reasoning and Learning in One Network (MERaLiON), with new enhanced multilingual processing and emotional intelligence.

Developed by the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research with support from the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the model now handles languages such as Malay, Tamil, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, and Vietnamese, in addition to English, Mandarin, and Singlish.

To accelerate adoption, the MERaLiON Consortium has been launched to develop practical AI applications, from multilingual customer support to health and emotional insight detection and agentic decision-making systems.

This consortium brings together local and global industry players and institutions like HTX, the MOH Office for Healthcare, NCS, the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore, SPH Media, and ST Engineering.

It also includes technology companies such as Axiom IT Solutions, BytePlus, CommonTown, DBS Bank, Grab, and Microsoft Singapore.

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