Hong Kong startup Votee AI trains Cantonese models to counter English-Mandarin AI bias
Votee AI, a Hong Kong startup, retrains open-weight models from Meta and Alibaba on Cantonese data to serve banks, universities, and government departments. CEO Pak-Sun Ting argues that AI is useless without coverage of local languages like Cantonese, which has over 80 million speakers but lacks standardized written data. The company is part of a growing effort to address the neglect of low-resource languages in the AI boom.
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