KUALA LUMPUR — 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.

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 generating insightful and context-aware responses.

> Luhur (Integrity): ensuring ILMU is guided by strong principles of ethics, integrity and safety.

> Malaysia: Developed in Malaysia and built to support Malaysians and serve the nation.

> Untukmu (for you): Made for all Malaysians, designed to be accessible, useful and relevant to everyday needs.

YTL AI Labs believe that ASEAN shouldn’t just be users of AI but we should we builders of AI. As AI advances, we should guard and guide our own AI to preserve our national identities.

Behind ILMU is a Full Stack AI investment which covers local data centre infrastructure and AI cloud infrastructure in partnership with Nvidia.

For AI to thrive, there’s also the need to build the AI ecosystem. At the moment, ILMU has already formed partnerships with over 10 partners and the list is expected to grow.

Some of its current partners include Aco Tech, Carsome, Ryt Bank, Astro, Swipey, Vision.Machina, MediaPrima, Yes 5G, Vistel and TeeniAi.