Just within six months, Zalo, , deployed a calculating infrastructure and built an LLM with 7 billion parameters in the Vietnamese language. Regarding the calculating infrastructure, Vietnamese engineers had to join an unequal competition with rivals. While waiting for GPU from Nvidia, Zalo engineers tried to take full advantage of existing small civil-use GPUs to implement a series of research work. “For Zalo AI engineers, challenge doesn’t mean ‘difficulty’, but ‘opportunity’ to do significant things. Zalo’s most outstanding AI products include the Kiki voice assistant, dictation and voice-to-text technology, text-to-speed technology, FaceID, eKYC (Electronic Know Your Customer) and GenAI (AI Avatar, AI Sticker).
