SEA-LION v4.8 120B-A12B

Released
2026-09-16
Last refreshed
2026-10-22
Status
Researched today
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedLong context

SEA-LION v4.8 120B-A12B is available now for long context with open-source and 256K context; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

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Specifications
Family
SEA-LION
Released
2026-09-16
Context
256K
Parameters
123.6B total, 12B active
Architecture
MoE + SSM Hybrid
Specialization
multilingual
Openness
Open source
License
MITOSI-approvedPermitted
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

National AI initiative for Singapore

Singapore
Founded 2017
Website
Pricing

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About

SEA-LION v4.8 120B-A12B is AI Singapore's larger instruction-tuned Southeast Asian language model, built with NVIDIA on Nemotron 3 Super (Mamba2-Transformer hybrid MoE, about 12B active). AI Singapore reports large SEA-HELM gains over the Nemotron 3 baseline, e.g. Burmese 4.98 to 31.35 and Tamil 21.83 to 56.35. 262,144-token context, MIT license.

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