Singapore’s Home Team Is Building Its Own AI Chatbot – And It Speaks 10 Languages!
SINGAPORE, 26TH MAY 2025 — HTX (Home Team Science and Technology Agency), Mistral AI, and Microsoft have instituted a historic collaboration to co-develop Generative AI capabilities for the Home Team.
This partnership would accelerate sovereign AI innovation in Singapore by setting in motion the design and deployment of Phoenix, a proprietary large language model trained on very specific Home Team and Singapore-relevant data.
In this project, Microsoft will assist in fine-tuning the Phi-4 multimodal Small Language Model to tackle Home Team’s evolved use cases. Mistral AI will bring its LLM expertise in the co-training of Phoenix, a family of locally optimized models able to digest content in 10 major languages spoken in Singapore, namely Tamil, Mandarin, and Bahasa Melayu. Phoenix is expected to provide responses that are much more context-aware and culturally nuanced than generic LLMs.
“As an agency focused on leveraging cutting-edge science and technology innovations to empower the Home Team, we recognise the potential for AI to significantly improve the efficiency of certain operations, which in turn allows Home Team officers to focus on more critical roles related to enhancing the safety and security of Singapore. This collaboration with industry leaders Mistral AI and Microsoft will allow us to fast track our progress to empower the Home Team with AI,”
Said Ang Chee Wee, HTX Chief AI Officer and Assistant Chief Executive (Digital and Enterprise).
Phoenix, designed to address critical national security concerns, is to be progressively deployed as an AI chatbot and API for Home Team departments.
The HTX team intends to integrate it into a unified platform that would host all future LLMs and Vision Language Models for seamless access and orchestration to agencies.
“AI innovation thrives when the public and private sectors work together. By bringing their public safety vision, mission and expertise to this AI collaboration with Microsoft and Mistral AI, HTX will drive new levels of efficiency for the Home Team. Together we’re building local AI capabilities and delivering technology tailored to the specific needs of our community to keep Singapore safe,”
Said Wong Sook Huey, Public Sector Director, Microsoft Singapore.
Microsoft will co-work with HTX to enhance infrastructure for training and model management. At the same time, Mistral AI will offer platforms for model fine-tuning, inference, and fast custom model building for Home Team departments.
This partnership positions HTX at the forefront of AI innovation in Singapore’s public sector, one of the few local agencies capable of developing LLMs from scratch, underscoring a major milestone in national tech sovereignty and AI readiness.
“We are excited to partner with the Home Team to bring our expertise in LLM training and deployment to key initiatives. This includes the co-training of models such as Phoenix – an LLM that has been continually pre-trained on extensive corpora relevant to the Home Team and the broader Singapore government. This collaboration reflects our ongoing investment and commitment to the APAC region,”
Said Arthur Mensch, CEO and co-founder of Mistral AI.
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