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Pan-SEA AI Developer Challenge 2025
Pan-SEA AI Developer Challenge 2025
Challenge Statements
Explore real-world impact areas where LLMs like SEA-LION can unlock transformative potential in Southeast Asia. Participants can choose from the following domains to develop innovative LLM-related solutions:
Challenge Statements
Explore real-world impact areas where LLMs like SEA-LION can unlock transformative potential in Southeast Asia. Participants can choose from the following domains to develop innovative LLM-related solutions:
HEALTHCARE
Challenge statement title:
Reimagining Healthcare Access and Intelligence in Southeast Asia using LLM-related solutions
Challenge Synopsis:
Introducing LLMs such as SEA-LION to transform health delivery, accessibility, and understanding across Southeast Asia’s diverse linguistic, cultural landscape, and infrastructure.
Idea Bank:
Build LLM-related solutions that help patients better understand diagnoses, prescriptions, or health campaigns in their native language.
Explore LLMs for mental health support, rural health advisory, or multilingual telemedicine triage.
Improve communication and documentation between frontline healthcare workers and central systems.
FINANCE
Challenge statement title:
Empowering Financial Inclusion and/or Trust with LLM-related solutions in Southeast Asia
Challenge Synopsis:
Using LLMs like SEA-LION to drive financial inclusion and/or build trust across Southeast Asia with tools for financial literacy, fraud prevention, and responsible money management in their native languages.
Idea Bank:
Financial Inclusion:
A conversational chatbot powered by SEA-LION that explains fundamental financial concepts (e.g. budgeting, saving, digital payments, interest rates) in local Southeast Asian languages and dialects.
A lightweight, LLM-driven assistant that helps small business owners track cash flow, generate invoices, manage expenses, and explore microfinancing options.
An LLM-related solution that explains loan application criteria and recommends suitable financial products based on user profile—all in regional languages.
Financial Trust:
A tool that analyzes suspicious messages or online content, flags potential scams, and explains the warning signs in plain local language.
An LLM-related solution that reads and summarizes complex bank or insurance documents into understandable, localized language—clarifying fees, terms, and risks.
A chatbot that informs users of their rights regarding loans, digital payments, and banking services based on country-specific financial regulations.
EDUCATION
Challenge statement title:
Unlocking Equitable and Personalised Learning with LLM-related solutions Across Southeast Asia
Challenge Synopsis:
Integrating LLMs like SEA-LION to make learning more accessible, personalised, and engaging for diverse learners across Southeast Asia’s varied infrastructure readiness, language diversity, and access to education.
Idea Bank:
Build AI tutors that adapt to local languages and educational curriculums.
Generate personalized learning paths, feedback, or content summaries for students.
Help educators reduce admin workload or enhance lesson delivery with LLM-related support.
Public SectoR
Challenge statement title:
Modernizing Public Service and Civic Engagement with LLM-related solutions in Southeast Asia
Challenge Synopsis:
Leveraging on LLMs like SEA-LION to make public services, civic processes, and government information more understandable, accessible, and efficient for Southeast Asian communities where government structure and level of governance is varied.
Idea Bank:
Create citizen-facing chatbots that answer questions about public policies, aid programs, or legal rights in local languages.
Streamline form submissions, permit applications, or access to public data through natural language interfaces.
Support transparency by summarising lengthy documents like legislation or public reports in easy-to-understand formats.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Dev Challenge Participation
Dev Challenge Participation
Now that I’ve registered for the dev challenge, what’s next?
Who is eligible to participate in the dev challenge?
Is the dev challenge virtual or in-person?
Who can I contact if I have any questions?
Now that I’ve registered for the dev challenge, what’s next?
Who is eligible to participate in the dev challenge?
Is the dev challenge virtual or in-person?
Who can I contact if I have any questions?
Now that I’ve registered for the dev challenge, what’s next?
Who is eligible to participate in the dev challenge?
Is the dev challenge virtual or in-person?
Who can I contact if I have any questions?
Project Submission
Project Submission
Can my team submit more than 1 project for the dev challenge?
Can I submit an existing project?
What if my team has more than 1 project that we’d really like to build and submit for this event?
What happens to the projects developed during the dev challenge after the event?
Are there any regional focus requirements for my project?
Can my team submit more than 1 project for the dev challenge?
Can I submit an existing project?
What if my team has more than 1 project that we’d really like to build and submit for this event?
What happens to the projects developed during the dev challenge after the event?
Are there any regional focus requirements for my project?
Can my team submit more than 1 project for the dev challenge?
Can I submit an existing project?
What if my team has more than 1 project that we’d really like to build and submit for this event?
Are there any regional focus requirements for my project?
What happens to the projects developed during the dev challenge after the event?
Teams
Teams
What is the total number of members I can have on my team?
How can I go about forming my team?
Can I belong to more than 1 team?
Do all members of my team have to register for the event?
What is the total number of members I can have on my team?
How can I go about forming my team?
Can I belong to more than 1 team?
Do all members of my team have to register for the event?
What is the total number of members I can have on my team?
How can I go about forming my team?
Can I belong to more than 1 team?
Do all members of my team have to register for the event?
Technical
Technical
Are teams allowed to use other Large Language Models (LLMs) other than SEA-LION models?
Can teams access SEA-GUARD?
Will participants receive help with setting up the LLM, or is that expected to be done independently?
Are teams allowed to use other Large Language Models (LLMs) other than SEA-LION models?
Can teams access SEA-GUARD?
Will participants receive help with setting up the LLM, or is that expected to be done independently?
Are teams allowed to use other Large Language Models (LLMs) other than SEA-LION models?
Can teams access SEA-GUARD?
Will participants receive help with setting up the LLM, or is that expected to be done independently?
Prize Administration
Prize Administration
Who will I be expecting the prize money to be administered by?
What currency will the prize money be in?
When will the prize money be administered?
Who will I be expecting the prize money to be administered by?
What currency will the prize money be in?
When will the prize money be administered?
Who will I be expecting the prize money to be administered by?
What currency will the prize money be in?
When will the prize money be administered?
📩 Have a question?
Reach out to us at
info@seadeveloperchallenge.ai
📩 Have a question?
Reach out to us at
info@seadeveloperchallenge.ai
HEALTHCARE
Challenge statement title:
Reimagining Healthcare Access and Intelligence in Southeast Asia using LLM-related solutions
Challenge Synopsis:
Introducing LLMs such as SEA-LION to transform health delivery, accessibility, and understanding across Southeast Asia’s diverse linguistic, cultural landscape, and infrastructure.
Idea Bank:
Build LLM-related solutions that help patients better understand diagnoses, prescriptions, or health campaigns in their native language.
Explore LLMs for mental health support, rural health advisory, or multilingual telemedicine triage.
Improve communication and documentation between frontline healthcare workers and central systems.
FINANCE
Challenge statement title:
Empowering Financial Inclusion and/or Trust with LLM-related solutions in Southeast Asia
Challenge Synopsis:
Using LLMs like SEA-LION to drive financial inclusion and/or build trust across Southeast Asia with tools for financial literacy, fraud prevention, and responsible money management in their native languages.
Idea Bank:
Financial Inclusion:
A conversational chatbot powered by SEA-LION that explains fundamental financial concepts (e.g. budgeting, saving, digital payments, interest rates) in local Southeast Asian languages and dialects.
A lightweight, LLM-driven assistant that helps small business owners track cash flow, generate invoices, manage expenses, and explore microfinancing options.
An LLM-related solution that explains loan application criteria and recommends suitable financial products based on user profile—all in regional languages.
Financial Trust:
A tool that analyzes suspicious messages or online content, flags potential scams, and explains the warning signs in plain local language.
An LLM-related solution that reads and summarizes complex bank or insurance documents into understandable, localized language—clarifying fees, terms, and risks.
A chatbot that informs users of their rights regarding loans, digital payments, and banking services based on country-specific financial regulations.
EDUCATION
Challenge statement title:
Unlocking Equitable and Personalised Learning with LLM-related solutions Across Southeast Asia
Challenge Synopsis:
Integrating LLMs like SEA-LION to make learning more accessible, personalised, and engaging for diverse learners across Southeast Asia’s varied infrastructure readiness, language diversity, and access to education.
Idea Bank:
Build AI tutors that adapt to local languages and educational curriculums.
Generate personalized learning paths, feedback, or content summaries for students.
Help educators reduce admin workload or enhance lesson delivery with LLM-related support.
Public SectoR
Challenge statement title:
Modernizing Public Service and Civic Engagement with LLM-related solutions in Southeast Asia
Challenge Synopsis:
Leveraging on LLMs like SEA-LION to make public services, civic processes, and government information more understandable, accessible, and efficient for Southeast Asian communities where government structure and level of governance is varied.
Idea Bank:
Create citizen-facing chatbots that answer questions about public policies, aid programs, or legal rights in local languages.
Streamline form submissions, permit applications, or access to public data through natural language interfaces.
Support transparency by summarising lengthy documents like legislation or public reports in easy-to-understand formats.