Alibaba Group's research institution, DAMO Academy, has launched a large language model tailored specifically for Southeast Asian languages. The Southeast Asian LLM is pre-trained on datasets in Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Malay, Khmer, Lao, Tagalog, and Burmese, and outperforms other open-source models in language and safety tasks. The region is considered an important growth market for LLMs targeting specific areas. SeaLLM excels in non-Latin language tasks and demonstrates enhanced capabilities in understanding and processing non-Latin script text.