Votee AI
Coverage of Votee AI in the Nexus archive.
- Without local languages, ‘AI is essentially useless’: Hong Kong’s Votee AI is taking on English and Mandarin’s AI dominance with a Cantonese model
The AI boom is currently dominated by models trained on English and Mandarin Chinese from companies based in the U.S. or mainland China, neglecting countless languages like Cantonese. Votee AI, a Hong Kong-based startup, aims to address this oversight by retraining open-weight models using specialized Cantonese data for local applications. By utilizing sources such as Radio Television Hong Kong content and synthetic datasets, Votee provides critical functionality, ensuring that the technology can be used in sectors like healthcare and education.
- Rewriting the Intelligence Map
Pak-Sun Ting, CEO of Votee AI, discusses how sovereign AI architecture and native language models are reshaping enterprise governance and addressing the exclusion of most global languages from modern AI systems. The article highlights efforts to integrate billions of underserved language speakers into the generative AI era.