Models & Research

MERaLiON (Multimodal Empathetic Reasoning and Learning in One Network) is Southeast Asia’s empathetic Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM), designed to understand the region’s diverse languages, cultures, and communication styles.

 

Developed by A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), MERaLiON is one of two national LLMs under Singapore’s S$70M National Multimodal Large Language Model Programme (NMLP), supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). First launched in December 2024, MERaLiON is an empathetic and culturally attuned Artificial Intelligence (AI) model designed to support natural interactions across sectors, reflecting Singapore’s ambition to lead in human-centric, regionally grounded AI. The high-performance computing (HPC) resources used to train the MERaLiON model were provided by the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore through its ASPIRE 2A+ supercomputer.