Philippines' GCash Develops First Filipino LLM for Financial Services
GCash, the Philippines' leading fintech super-app, announced the development of a custom Filipino-language LLM for customer service, fraud detection, and financial advisory. The model, trained on 5 years of Filipino financial conversations, will be open-sourced for local developers.
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