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AI Models

GoTo releases a free AI model for Indonesian and Javanese

The 27-billion-parameter model also handles Sundanese, Balinese and Batak Toba. It is built on Google’s Gemma 3 with AI Singapore, and its weights are free under Google’s Gemma licence.

GoTo, the Indonesian group behind the Gojek and Tokopedia apps, released GoTo-AI-Gemma-3-27B-IT on October 19. The model works in Indonesian, English and four regional languages, and anyone can download it from Hugging Face. GoTo says it scored highest on every regional language in its own tests, but it has published no scores.

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Policy & Law

Gates Foundation and 59 partners want AI in more languages

The pledge has no budget yet.

On September 21 in New York, the Gates Foundation, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, the OpenAI Foundation, the World Bank Group, and others signed a joint commitment. Within five years, they want an estimated 3.4 billion speakers of poorly served languages to be able to use AI in their own language and voice.