KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 12 -- YTL AI Labs has showcased ILMU at ASEAN AI Malaysia Summit 2025 that is happening at Mitec. This is Malaysia's very own Large Language Model (LLM) that's 100 per cent made in Malaysia by Malaysians for Malaysians.

Why Malaysia need its own AI model?

Besides being trained on local language and data to understand Malaysian culture, context and daily realities, the localised AI model is fully developed, owned and operated in Malaysia.

The main emphasis is AI sovereignty, ensuring that we maintain ownership and control over systems that we rely to guide us.

In case you're wondering, ILMU stands for Intelek Luhur Malaysia Untukmu.

> Intelek (Intellect): ILMU is built to be intelligent-capable of learning and gener...