Model creator

AI Singapore

Singapore's national AI programme, which develops the SEA-LION family of Southeast-Asian language models. Its SEA-LION v3 model card records "Developed by: Products Pillar, AI Singapore" and "Funded by: National Research Foundation, Singapore". As a national research-funded programme whose institution controls its releases and which exists primarily for research, it is recorded as a research-lab rather than a company.

1 familyChecked Aug 30, 2026

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CreatorAI SingaporeSingapore's national AI programme, which develops the SEA-LION family of Southeast-Asian language models. Its SEA-LION v3 model card records "Developed by: Products Pillar, AI Singapore" and "Funded by: National Research Foundation, Singapore". As a national research-funded programme whose institution controls its releases and which exists primarily for research, it is recorded as a research-lab rather than a company.

Family

SEA-LION v3

First released Dec 2024

No recorded lineage links in this family, so no releases are connected here.

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Llama-SEA-LION-v3-8B

AI Singapore's 8B SEA-LION v3 model, a continued pre-training of Llama 3.1 8B for Southeast-Asian languages. Its family documentation records "Llama-SEA-LION-v3-8B, based on Llama 3.1 8B, now provides a larger context length of 128K", which the recorded context window rests on. The release is dated at month precision because the only date any source states for SEA-LION v3 is "released in Dec 2024"; no day is recorded rather than inventing one.

Release: Dec 2024
Status: Available
Access: Open-weight

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When to use it

Natural-language reasoning and instruction following in Southeast-Asian languages, per AI Singapore's statement that SEA-LION v3 offers "enhanced natural language reasoning (NLR) abilities and superior instruction-following in SEA languages".

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Llama-SEA-LION-v3-8B model card | Checked Sep 6, 2026

Official record

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Website: https://aisingapore.org
Release page: https://huggingface.co/aisingapore
Type: research lab
Verified: Aug 30, 2026

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Llama-SEA-LION-v3-8B Available
SEA-LION v38B Dec 2024 Open-weight

Primary sources

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repositorySEA-LION v3 model documentation
AI Singapore | Checked Sep 1, 2026
model cardLlama-SEA-LION-v3-8B model card
AI Singapore | Checked Sep 1, 2026