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Taiwan’s NSTC releases TAIDE-LX-8B, a Traditional Chinese model built on Llama 3

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Source: Taiwan AI Action Plan portal (ai.taiwan.gov.tw)Also reported by Taipei Times

Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council released TAIDE-LX-8B, an 8-billion-parameter upgrade of its TAIDE language model built on Meta’s Llama 3. The earlier TAIDE-LX-7B, based on Llama 2, had been released on 15 April 2024. The team trained the model mostly on Taiwanese government and academic documents and aims it at companies and financial institutions that do not want their data sent to foreign-trained models.

Why it matters

Taiwanese firms and agencies got a locally tuned open model for Traditional Chinese work, an early step in the island’s sovereign AI effort built on a foreign open-weights base.

When
29 Apr 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0196
Where
Taiwan
Who
National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan), Meta

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Taiwan AI Action Plan portal (ai.taiwan.gov.tw) and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Taiwan AI Action Plan portal (ai.taiwan.gov.tw)

Source copy: download the page as saved on 21 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0196: “Taiwan’s NSTC releases TAIDE-LX-8B, a Traditional Chinese model built on Llama 3.” wheresthe.ai, 29 Apr 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/tw-nstc-taide-lx-8b-llama3-2024-04/ (source: Taiwan AI Action Plan portal (ai.taiwan.gov.tw)).

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