TAIDE

TAIDE (Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine) is Taiwan's government-backed sovereign LLM, developed by the National Science and Technology Council starting April 2023 and released in April 2024. Built on Llama-2/3 (70B scale) and refined on carefully filtered Traditional Chinese data — government publications, local news, university resources — TAIDE is designed to serve Taiwan's population in local language patterns and resist the cultural and political biases of imported models, a concern Taiwanese researchers frame in national-security terms.

It is a 2024-era project at modest scale: a 70B Llama derivative can't match 2026 frontier models, and the related open Taiwan-LLM community models (MiuLab, 7B-70B, Llama-3 license) are the more practical artifacts for builders today. But as a case study in state-led AI sovereignty — $7.4M budgeted, explicitly motivated by resilience against foreign information influence — TAIDE is the reference implementation alongside France's Lucie and Saudi's ALLaM.