Reka and Telkom Forge a Strategic Collaboration to Advance AI in Indonesia
New York / San Francisco, CA. August 28, 2024 – Reka AI, Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco Bay Area, and PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (Telkom) today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on advancing AI technologies for Indonesia. Reka will make available to Telkom its market-leading AI models to develop multimodal language models specifically tailored for Bahasa Indonesia and local languages in Indonesia. This will enable Telkom to improve its services and products.
Reka develops multimodal AI models that work with various types of data such as multilingual text, image, audio, and video. Reka’s models can be deployed anywhere, including on device, on premises, or via the cloud. As a digital company, Telkom has adopted innovative AI technologies including large language models. This initiative strengthens Telkom’s effort to continue to build a better Indonesia via digitalization.
"We are very excited to collaborate with various parties to explore the potential of cutting-edge AI technology. Our collaboration with Reka, a pioneer in AI research and development is an example of this. We expect Reka’s multimodal models to improve the quality of Telkom's digital products and services, thereby providing substantial benefits to society, industry, and the nation," said EVP Digital Business and Technology Telkom, Komang Budi Aryasa.
"Indonesia's rich linguistic diversity and rapidly growing digital economy present a unique opportunity to use our multilingual AI models to drive societal impact," said Dani Yogatama, CEO of Reka. "AI is a transformative technology that should benefit everyone in the world and we are thrilled to work with local partners to ensure Indonesia continues to have access to frontier AI technology via Reka."
This MoU signing underscores Reka’s and Telkom’s commitments to using AI as a catalyst for innovation, economic development, and social progress in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and beyond.
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Reka is a developer of industry-leading, multimodal, AI models that enable individuals and organizations to deploy generative AI applications. Reka was founded by a team of highly experienced scientists and engineers from DeepMind, Google Brain, and FAIR. For more information or to try out our multimodal models, please visit us at www.reka.ai
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