Choice: the path to AI sovereignty
Sep 25, 2025Carly Ramsey, Smrithi Ramesh, Michelle Chen
Summary
This post introduces the availability of three new regional AI models on Cloudflare Workers AI: IndicTrans2 (for Indic languages), PLaMo-Embedding-1B (Japanese text embedding), and SEA-LION v4-27B (Southeast Asian languages). It details how these models support AI sovereignty by enabling local language AI development and deployment at the edge. The post provides curl examples for using these models, demonstrating their integration into the Workers AI platform for inference.
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