MERaLiON seamlessly integrates into our AI voice applications for elderly care, elevating their ability to comprehend various local languages and dialects. Beyond improved linguistic understanding, it empowers our AI to analyse emotional states, facilitating early detection of distress, enabling alerts and timely interventions by caregivers. Additionally, MERaLiON has been incorporated into our SCAM Call Protect solution, designed to safeguard the elderly from fraudulent calls. Collaborations with social service agencies are underway to bring these enhancements to life, unlocking boundless possibilities for impactful innovation.

At BytePlus, we are deeply committed to fostering an AI landscape that thrives on innovation, diversity, and inclusivity. As a founding member of the MERaLiON Consortium, we're proud to contribute our deep technical expertise, proven industry knowledge, and locally optimised solutions to empower Southeast Asia's first multimodal LLM. This collaboration is crucial as we accelerate the development and deployment of culturally attuned AI that benefits everyone in the region and beyond.

CommonTown serves a diverse range of clients across Singapore and Southeast Asia with our edtech and centre management products. By integrating MERaLiON's localised and empathetic ASR features and collaborating with other consortium members, CommonTown will enhance its products and expand its market reach. We also look forward to partnering with consortium members to create innovative new products and services.

Understanding local nuance, context and culture isn't just a technical challenge, it's a human one. DBS is delighted to be the only bank to join this pioneering effort in building and testing out a large language model that truly reflects our local voice – because innovation must speak the language of the people it serves.

Grab is glad to be part of the MERaLiON Consortium and is excited about the development of AI that better understands Southeast Asia's diverse languages and cultures. We've been exploring the use of multimodal LLMs to enhance user experience — including leveraging advanced multilingual voice capabilities to improve accessibility on our platform. We look forward to working with Singapore's research and public sector to explore more inclusive and culturally relevant AI innovation.

HTX is excited to enable to cross-pollination of ideas and expertise with other consortium members. The development of multimodal speech and text capabilities that is localised to Singapore's context is crucial in accelerating our impact in the Home Team and beyond. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in our dedication to create a thriving ecosystem within Singapore that empowers innovation and advances AI R&D for public safety and security.

At Microsoft, we are committed to fostering innovation through collaboration. Our work with leading organisations in the MERaLiON initiative reflects our commitment to co-developing transformative AI solutions tailored to Singapore's unique sectoral needs. By working closely with our partner ecosystem, we're enabling the integration of MERaLiON into Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams - bringing powerful, locally-relevant generative AI directly into the flow of work and accelerating productivity and impact for businesses across Singapore.

AI is transforming healthcare around the world, but empathy and understanding local languages and cultures in Singapore are crucial for its adoption here. Localized models like MERaLiON are essential to building digital health tools that are not only intelligent but also serve all communities equitably – by recognizing how people speak, feel, and seek care.

MERaLiON addresses Southeast Asia's unique linguistic and cultural diversity, enabling governments and enterprises to enhance service delivery specific to the region. NCS is proud to contribute by developing tailored conversational AI solutions, publishing benchmarks on real-world use cases, and extending the model's capabilities to support industry-specific applications. And in doing so, working with the industry to advance Southeast Asia's digital future.

The success of the MERaLiON initiative and the formation of the new consortium highlight the growing maturity of Singapore's AI research landscape and ecosystem. NSCC Singapore's high-performance computing resources, coupled with our in-house technical expertise, played a pivotal role in optimising and enhancing the training of MERaLiON's large language model – underscoring the critical importance of supercomputing in advancing AI research and development. NSCC Singapore looks forward to deepening collaborations with A*STAR I²R and other MERaLiON consortium members to fully harness the transformative potential of supercomputing in AI innovation.

As a news media company, we recognise the importance of embracing technologies that can enhance user experience, and in so doing allow us to reach and engage audiences more effectively. Our participation in the MERaLiON consortium will enable us to explore potential AI applications with this goal in mind and underscores our commitment to the responsible use of AI in journalism.

At ST Engineering, we believe that strategic partnerships are essential to driving technology. As a founding member of the MERaLiON Consortium, we help shape solutions for complex communication tasks tailored to the linguistic and contextual nuances of Singapore and Southeast Asia. Building on our long-standing partnership with A*STAR I²R, we combine deep research and engineering expertise to bring innovations from lab to real-world use.

Sqreem is delighted to be part of the MERaLiON consortium. As Singapore's leading cognitive AI company, we are proud to contribute the world's largest set of real-time behavioural intelligence data, a growing customer base across multiple industrial verticals, and deep industry expertise. We look forward to furthering our work with Singapore's research and public sector to help drive innovation, adoption and the impact of culturally contextualisation AI across the world.