ILMU: Malaysia's AI

World-class AI with a Malaysian advantage

Malaysia’s own large language model — trained on local language and data to understand our culture, context, and daily realities. Multimodal by design. Built and operated entirely in Malaysia, keeping data local and giving the nation strategic control over its AI future.

World-class AI 
with a Malaysian Advantage

The ILMU Sovereign Intelligence Platform gives you access to state-of-the-art AI - with the performance and security your business demands.

Hosted entirely in Malaysia on YTL AI Cloud, with 100% data residency guaranteed.

ILMU Claw Plan

Power your OpenClaw with ILMU

Dedicated API for OpenClaw and agent frameworks. Powered by Nemo-Super, and ILMU-Nemo-Nano developed in collaboration with NVIDIA.

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ILMUchat

Malaysia's AI - Speak Malaysian, Think Lokal

#AILOKAL assistant that understands how we talk, what we care about, and how things run in Malaysia.

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ILMU is Built for You

The name ILMU stands for Intelek Luhur Malaysia Untukmu, representing Malaysian intelligence, developed in Malaysia, for Malaysians.

Intelek (Intellect)

ILMU is built to be intelligent- capable of learning and generating insightful, context-aware responses.

Luhur (Integrity)

At its core, ILMU is guided by strong principles of ethics, integrity, and safety, reflecting Malaysia’s commitment to responsible innovation.

Malaysia

Developed in Malaysia, ILMU understands our languages, cultures, and everyday realities - built to support Malaysians and serve the nation.

Untukmu (for You)

ILMU is made for all Malaysians – whether you’re a student, a teacher, a civil servant, a business owner, or a curious individual. It’s designed to be accessible, useful, and relevant to your everyday needs.

World Class Performance

Top Global LLM in Malay: Our flagship model, ILMU outperforms other frontier models on the Malay MMLU benchmark and performs on par with — or better than — leading models across global benchmarks.

ModelLanguageSTEMHumanitiesSocial SciencesOthersOverall
ILMU89.3688.0588.4085.4485.0887.20
GPT-4o87.6483.5487.7882.8482.3484.97
Deepseek-V383.1383.9178.8478.2578.0080.56
GPT-583.5978.1076.5080.7375.4479.53
SahabatAI80.6078.3181.2576.3974.9378.31
Llama 3.179.4478.7681.0076.5075.1078.07
SEALION79.4478.7681.1176.4575.2278.03
Mallam 2.5 Small (Mesolitica)73.0070.0071.0072.0070.0071.53
Merdeka-LLM (Agmo)56.9257.6360.3656.8255.1057.28
Falcon3-10B54.7758.2060.1756.7654.0456.38

State-of-the-art Performance
on Global Benchmarks

ILMU performs on par with leading frontier models like GPT-4o and Llama 3.1 across key benchmarks.

MalayMMLU

In Bahasa Melayu language understanding, ILMU outperforms all frontier models.

Arena Hard Auto

ILMU handles real world prompts far better than Llama 3.1

IFEval

On complex instruction-following tasks, ILMU is neck to neck with GPT-4o’s state-of-the-art performance.