Thailand’s first open-source LLM
Typhoon is the first Thai AI model family. As a founding member, I led program management, GTM, partnerships, and community, scaling to 320k+ model downloads, 23M+ API calls, and 8K+ developers on the platform.
opentyphoon.ai ↗arXiv 2312.13951 ↗
- Role
- Senior Program Manager · 2023-2025
- Industry
- AI, Open-source LLMs
- Tech Stack / Tools
- Annotation Platform (Vendor Portal) · Hugging Face · SQL · Google Sheet · Notion · Google Analytics · Discord
- Skills
- Program Management · Data Annotation · Vendor Management · Go-to-Market · Community Building · Partnerships · Enterprise Deployment
Problem
Thai is a low-resource language as it lacks sufficient training data to build NLP systems. Additionally, western models don’t understand Thai language and culture.
Solution
Build accessible open-weight models and distribute them to local Thai developer communities.
1. Open-weight models
The Typhoon model family is available on Hugging Face, ready to download and run locally.
2. Production-grade APIs
Hosted APIs with world-class documentation.
3. Zero-setup developer playground
Anyone can try any Typhoon model in the browser at the developer playground.
I managed four work streams:
Model Training & Data Collection
- Managed the data collection program end-to-end through annotation vendor management and quality review, delivering 5K+ financial Q&A pairs
- Worked with AI researchers on 3TB+ pretraining data curation
- Co-authored the technical report
Events & Community
Research Partnerships
- Stanford HAI (Professor Percy Liang's lab): a Thai evaluation dataset on the Stanford HELM leaderboard
- SambaNova: Typhoon 8B and 7B models on Samba-1 CoE model
- AI Singapore: the SEACrowd project for Southeast Asian language data
- Guardrails AI: a Thai language safety dataset
- VISTEC: Thai language data collection projects
Enterprise Adoption
- Delivered a RAG-based AI copilot for customer service at Thailand's largest bank. View more here
