Apply to our SEACrowd 2026 Apprentice Program for mentored and collaborative AI research, with potential publication opportunities.
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Help build Southeast Asia’s culturally-aware evaluation benchmarks for vision-language models
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Compile the first catalog and benchmark for 500+ Southeast Asian datasets
View finished projectOur Vision
We are a grassroots-led community of researchers from Southeast Asia (SEA) advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, resources, and capabilities for the region.
We envision a future where AI ecosystems in SEA are mature and competitive with the rest of the world, wherein people from SEA can use world-class AI in their own linguistic and cultural context.
Our Mission
We commit to a three-pronged approach to reaching our vision:
- spearheading grassroots-led model training and dataset building to improve AI resources for SEA
- creating a community of like-minded researchers via the ACL Special Interest Group SIGSEA
- supporting early-career researchers through the SEACrowd Apprentice Program
Recent News
We shared our learnings from running the first batch (2024-25) of the SEACrowd Apprentice Program in our retrospective blog post.
Our 2026 apprentice program is now open until Dec 17 2025 (UTC-12). Apply now to for a mentored and collaborative research experience in multilingual natural language processing (NLP) for Southeast Asia, with potential publication opportunities!
[Finished] Join SEA-VL Phase 2 to help build Southeast Asia’s first culturally-aware vision-language model! Earn 200+ points for certificate + merchandise or 300+ points for co-authorship of our organization paper, through data curation, annotation, prompting, and evaluation tasks.
[Finished] Join SEA-VL Phase 1 to help build Southeast Asia’s first culturally-aware image-and-text dataset! Earn 200+ points for certificate + merchandise or 300+ points for co-authorship in the final paper aimed for ACL 2025. Submit SEA-relevant images, translate, create questions for our AI, generate prompts, and more!