Sailor2

SAIL (Sea AI Lab) · 2024 · LLM · Singapore

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: SAIL (Sea AI Lab)
C · CEO & Politics: Forrest Li (Sea Limited CEO) — Centrist (Singapore-based)
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: Singapore
K · Key Staffers: Qian Liu (Project leader), Longxu Dou (Co-lead author), Min Lin (Senior author)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Sailor2, Sea AI Lab's community-driven open multilingual language models for Southeast Asia, in 1B, 8B and 20B sizes that expand Qwen2.5's 0.5B, 7B and 14B base models: continually pretrained on 500 billion tokens, they cover 15 languages, from English, Chinese, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese to Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Cebuano, Ilocano and Waray, with the 8B and 20B aimed at production use and the 1B at uses such as speculative decoding. They are released under Apache 2.0.
S · Stock / Status: $100 (SE, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: [UNKNOWN]
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights LLM from SAIL (Sea AI Lab), released 2024.

Data completeness 81% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Sailor2.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/sailor2.html