Votee AI Develops Cantonese Model to Counter English and Mandarin AI Dominance

Summary

Hong Kong-based Votee AI is developing a Cantonese AI model to address the dominance of English and Mandarin in artificial intelligence, arguing that AI is "essentially useless" without local language support. The company retrains open-weight models using Cantonese data to serve banks, universities, and government departments, highlighting the unique linguistic and cultural aspects of Cantonese.