LLM Reference

SEA-LION 7B

Released
2024-09-01
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago

SEA-LION 7B is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 4k context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
SEA-LION
Released
2024-09-01
Context
4k
Parameters
7B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

National AI initiative for Singapore

Singapore
Founded 2017
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
-
Input / 1M
-

Cheapest of 1 route · NVIDIA NIM

About

The SEA-LION 7B model is a state-of-the-art large language model designed for the Southeast Asian region, part of the SEA-LION family. This decoder-only transformer model boasts 7 billion parameters and is based on the MPT architecture. It features a custom SEABPETokenizer with a vocabulary of 256,000 tokens, optimizing performance for Southeast Asian languages. Supporting multiple languages like English, Chinese, and Indonesian, it excels in tasks such as question answering, sentiment analysis, machine translation, and text summarization. Trained on 980 billion tokens, the model effectively captures linguistic and cultural nuances, offering strong performance and accessible open-source resources 235.

SEA-LION 7B is a model in the SEA-LION family. The structured metadata tracks a 4k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through NVIDIA NIM. No headline benchmark score is tracked for SEA-LION 7B yet.

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