Indonesian group GoTo, which includes Gojek and GoPay, has made a language model publicly available.
Such models are the foundation for chatbots, translation tools and other AI services. Besides Indonesian, it understands Balinese, Javanese, Sundanese and Batak. Startups, companies, universities, researchers and government agencies can use it for free.
It was unveiled at Bali Tech Week in Sanur. The model is built on Gemma 3, Google's open neural network, which GoTo further trained on texts from Indonesian media and government websites, as well as on local languages.
The new model can run on a university's or startup's own server, with no need for a large data centre. But it won't work on an ordinary laptop: it needs 54–60 GB of video memory, which means a server-grade graphics card or several powerful gaming ones. It can be downloaded from Hugging Face, the platform where developers publish neural networks.
This isn't the first time GoTo has taught its models Balinese. In 2025 the language was added to Sahabat-AI, which the company developed together with the telecom operator Indosat.
The Balinese data for that model was checked by students from Udayana University who speak the language fluently. Interns from Udayana and six other universities in the country also worked on the new version.
In the benchmarks GoTo published alongside the model, it outperforms both the original Gemma and Sahabat-AI in Balinese. Its biggest gains were in translating from Indonesian into Balinese and in following requests written in Balinese.
“Indonesia already makes good use of foreign AI. But we also need to develop our own to solve local problems,” said GoTo CEO Hans Patuwo.
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