AI Influence Profile

Leslie Teo

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Senior Director, AI Products, AI Singapore (SEA-LION lead)

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Positioning

The operational lead behind SEA-LION, taking the Southeast Asian multilingual LLM from v1 through v3 (70B), and the engine behind SEA-LION powering government AI services.

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Signature Work (2)

SEA-LION Southeast Asian LLM

Since2023

AISG's flagship open-source Southeast Asian multilingual LLM. Leslie has driven the model from v1 through v3 (70B) and pushed SEA-LION to become the foundation for government AI services.

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Qwen-SEA-LION-v4 (Alibaba Cloud collaboration)

Since2025-11

November 2025 collaboration that uses Alibaba Cloud's Qwen as the base and strengthens Southeast Asian language coverage; Leslie was the public spokesperson.

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Public Statements (2)

“Scaling LLMs for Southeast Asian languages is the challenge — and the opportunity. The community is what makes SEA-LION work.”
Closing remarks, SEA-LION Summit 2025· 2025-12 · Source →
“The collaboration with Alibaba will help advance AI inclusivity and make SEA-LION more representative of Southeast Asia.”
Computer Weekly report on Qwen-SEA-LION-v4 release· 2025-11 · Source →

Recent Talks (3)

  • SEA-LION Summit 2025 (inaugural)· Closing remarks + Panel
    2025-12 →
  • Echelon X (e27)· Speaker (SEA-LION feature)
    2024-08 →
  • ITU AI for Good Global Summit· Speaker
    2024 →

Parliamentary AI record (0)

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