- Updated: November 25, 2025
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Singapore Switches National AI Program from Meta to Alibaba’s Qwen Model
Subscribe to the TechNode Briefing Newsletter Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up Subscribe to TechNode Briefing Newsletter Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign in with Google Or Subscribe Sign in to an existing account By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy.Thank you for registering! An account was already registered with this email.Please check your inbox for an authentication link. Support Us Your support helps TechNode continue to provide credible, on-the-ground journalism and industry insights about the Chinese tech industry. One-time Monthly Annually One-time $60 $120 $365 Other Donation amount $ Monthly $10 $20 $30 Other Donation amount per month $ Annually $60 $120 $365 Other Donation amount per year $ Your contribution is appreciated.Donate Now Close Donate Sign In Search for: Search NEWS FEATURES TOPICS Open dropdown menu AI Auto and EV E-commerce Content Semiconductor Gadget review BEYOND EXPO PARTNERS Open dropdown menu BEYOND EXPO XIN Summit 2023 INCLUSION-Conference on the Bund Close Skip to content Singapore’s national AI program has moved its Sea-Lion large language model off Meta’s model family and adopted Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen architecture, according to information cited by foreign media from AI Singapore (AISG).The latest version, Qwen-Sea-Lion-v4, was trained with technical support from Alibaba Cloud and built on the Qwen3-32B foundation model, which covers 119 languages and dialects and was trained on 36 trillion tokens. Alibaba Cloud said the model received an additional 100 billion Southeast Asian language tokens for this collaboration, while AISG contributed regional datasets and handled evaluation.Qwen-Sea-Lion-v4 currently ranks first among open-source models under 200 billion parameters in the “South-east Asian Holistic Evaluation of Language Models.” The model is available on the AI Singapore website and Hugging Face. Singapore launched its national multimodal model program in December 2023 with SGD 70 million (USD 51 million) in funding.[TechNode reporting] Related Latest stories Singapore’s national AI program drops Meta model and switches to Alibaba’s Qwen Nov 25, 2025 TSMC to expand 2nm capacity to 10 fabs, adding three in China’s Taiwan Nov 25, 2025 NetEase’s open-world wuxia game Where Winds Meet hits 250,000 concurrent players on Steam Nov 25, 2025 Huawei launches mountain-shaped router with industry-first transparent antenna Nov 25, 2025 DJI Avata 360 drone clears FCC certification ahead of launch Nov 25, 2025 China unveils humanoid robot standards committee with members from Unitree, ZhiYuan, Xiaomi, Huawei, ZTE and XPeng Nov 25, 2025 Popular articles Ant Group launches Lingguang, first AI assistant to generate full-code multimodal content China unveils humanoid robot standards committee with members from Unitree, ZhiYuan, Xiaomi, Huawei, ZTE and XPeng DJI Avata 360 drone clears FCC certification ahead of launch Foxconn and OpenAI strike deal to co-develop next-gen AI hardware in the US Xiaomi denies recent reports of fire on battery line at its auto factory Singapore’s national AI program drops Meta model and switches to Alibaba’s Qwen Link Copy link