LLMs are lousy at reading Asian languages, finds Singapore’s Grab

Proprietary large language models are bad at interpreting Asian languages, according to Singaporean super-app company Grab, which has built its own model instead. Grab’s superapp offers ride-sharing, food delivery, shopping, and even some financial services. The company is so prominent and dominant in some Asian countries that …

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Irony ..

Seems to be a well known phenomenon.

LLM Fluctuations then ?

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Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam all use Latin script.

Most LLMs are good at reading Chinese and Japanese so I think it's more a matter of amount of content included in the model than the script used.