Typhoon – A journey to Thailand's leading open-source LLM

Discover the journey of developing Typhoon, Thailand's leading open-source large language models, created by SCB 10X – the innovation arm of Siam Commercial Bank. This talk explores approaches for overcoming low-resource challenges in dataset curation and introduces new evaluations for Thai language understanding. Learn how Typhoon optimizes for Thai language, knowledge, and culture, promoting technological self-reliance. Come exchange ideas and insights about how to support the development of open language technologies for low-resource languages.

The speaker, Kasima Tharnpipitchai, is the Head of AI Strategy at SCB 10X, with over two decades of startup experience in New York and San Francisco. He played key roles as an early engineer at GitHub and as CTO of OMG Network, the first production Ethereum Layer-2 network. At the intersection of tech and Thai culture, he currently leads the Typhoon project, a series of open source large language models optimized for Thai. Recognizing the potential of generative AI and large language models, Kasima sees them as transformative for modern knowledge work and for Thailand.