Typhoon

What Typhoon does

Typhoon is Thailand's open-source AI research lab and large language model provider, operated by SCB DataX Company Limited — a subsidiary of SCB 10X Co., Ltd., the innovation arm of Siam Commercial Bank — and headquartered in Bangkok. Founded in 2023, the company develops a family of Thai-optimized foundation models spanning text (Typhoon 2, Typhoon 2.1 Gemma, Typhoon-S, Typhoon Si-Med-Thinking), reasoning (Typhoon T1, Typhoon2-R1-70B), vision (Typhoon2-Vision, Typhoon OCR), speech and audio (Typhoon Isan ASR Real-time and Whisper, Typhoon2-Audio, Typhoon-TTS), and Thai-English translation (Typhoon Translate 1.5). Models are built on and continually pre-trained from open base architectures including Gemma, Qwen, Llama, Mistral, and DeepSeek, with proprietary Thai datasets such as ThaiExam, the Isan Speech Corpus, ThaiOCRBench, and the Typhoon Vision/Audio preview datasets, supplemented by a community voice-collection program called Typhoon Voices. The lab has produced 50+ publications at venues including ACL 2025, EMNLP 2025, ICLR 2025, Interspeech 2025, and IJCNLP-AACL 2025, and was selected for the AWS Generative AI Accelerator 2025 cohort.

Typhoon's business model is community-led open source with a freemium API layer: the Playground at playground.opentyphoon.ai offers free-tier API access with rate limits and a higher-limit Pro subscription tier (specific pricing not publicly disclosed), while enterprise distribution runs through NVIDIA NIM Microservices, TogetherAI, SambaNova, and direct sales. Models and weights are openly distributed via HuggingFace and Ollama, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enables agent and tool-calling integrations. The company serves four segments — Thai enterprises with data sovereignty/PDPA requirements (notably its parent SCB and Siriraj Hospital SiData+ in healthcare), academic researchers, developers building Thai-language applications, and public-sector/healthcare organizations — and operates under Thailand's PDPA with sovereign deployment options (Typhoon-S) for organizations requiring complete data control.

Strategically, Typhoon positions itself as Thailand's sovereign AI stack alternative to foreign hyperscaler LLMs, combining research credibility (top-tier publications, Stanford HELM benchmarks), a multimodal product surface that covers the full Thai-language AI workflow from OCR and ASR to translation and reasoning, and channel partnerships (NVIDIA, AWS) that extend distribution globally while keeping data, models, and infrastructure rooted in Thailand.

Name

Typhoon

Legal name

SCB DataX Company Limited

Website

https://opentyphoon.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Typhoon is Thailand's open-source AI research lab that builds and distributes Thai-optimized large language models across text, vision, speech, and reasoning, serving Thai enterprises with PDPA and data-sovereignty needs, developers, researchers, and healthcare organizations via a freemium API and NVIDIA/AWS distribution channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Open-Source Large Language Models (Thai-specialized)

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Model Hosting, Serving & Inference Platforms (HDAAACAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Enterprise Foundation Model Integration & APIs (Connectors, Governance, Deployment) (HDAAACAO), Fine-Tuning, Adaptation & Custom Model Training (PEFT/LoRA/RLHF) (HDAAACAC), Multilingual/Translation Communication Apps (BPAMACAJ)

Keywords

• Open-source Thai LLM
• Thai language AI
• Multimodal foundation models
• Thai speech recognition
• Sovereign AI deployment

Headquarters

HQ city

Bangkok

HQ country

Thailand

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. API Access (Free Tier): Free API access with usage limits for developers and researchers to try Typhoon models.
2. API Pro Access: Premium API access with higher rate limits and priority processing for production applications.
3. Model Licensing: Open-source models available under research licenses; enterprise deployments through partnerships like NVIDIA NIM.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Typhoon develops and distributes an open-source suite of Thai-specialized large language models and multimodal AI systems. Its core offering centers on the Typhoon LLM family of text models (1B-70B parameters, with reasoning, sovereign, and medical-specialized variants), complemented by Typhoon2-Vision (OCR and visual understanding), Typhoon2-Audio (end-to-end speech-text), Typhoon Isan ASR (Thai/Isan speech-to-text), Typhoon Translate (Thai-English translation), and Typhoon-TTS. Models are delivered via free and paid APIs, open-source downloads (HuggingFace, Ollama), enterprise deployment (NVIDIA NIM), and direct enterprise engagements.

Product overview

Typhoon is Thailand's frontier AI research lab advancing open-source LLMs and multimodal Thai language technologies. The product portfolio centers on Typhoon LLM as the core text model family (including Typhoon 2, Typhoon 2.1 Gemma, Typhoon-S for sovereign deployment, and Typhoon-Si-Med-Thinking for medical reasoning), complemented by multimodal capabilities through Typhoon2-Vision (OCR, document understanding) and Typhoon2-Audio (speech processing). Supporting products include Typhoon Isan ASR (speech-to-text), Typhoon Translate (Thai-English translation), and Typhoon-TTS (text-to-speech, research preview). The platform includes Typhoon Playground for API access, MCP server for agent development, and comprehensive datasets/evaluation tools. All models are optimized for Thai language with strong bilingual Thai-English capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Typhoon-TTS: Text-to-Speech research project focused on developing natural Thai AI voices
• Typhoon2-Vision
• Typhoon2-Audio
• Typhoon Voices

Products and services

• Typhoon LLM Text Models Open-source Thai-optimized large language models ranging from 1B to 70B parameters that process and generate Thai and English text, with instruction following, multilingual task handling, function calling, structured reasoning, sovereign deployment, and medical-specialized variants for Thai language use cases.
• Typhoon2-Vision & Typhoon OCR Vision-language models built on Vision Transformer and Multimodal Rotary Position Embedding architectures for advanced Thai and English document parsing, OCR, chart understanding, and visual question answering.
• Typhoon2-Audio End-to-end model that processes and generates both text and audio, handling transcription, audio captioning, speech-to-speech translation, and conversational audio for automated customer service and content processing workflows.
• Typhoon Isan ASR Automatic Speech Recognition models specialized for Thai and Isan (Northeastern Thai) dialects, providing fast, accurate, and affordable speech-to-text deployment across consumer laptops to enterprise servers.
• Typhoon Translate Bidirectional Thai-English translation model offering superior instruction accuracy with fine-grained control for customizing tone, terminology, and formatting, designed for lightweight privacy-first local deployment on laptops and edge devices.
• Typhoon-TTS Text-to-Speech technology that captures Thai tones, rhythms, pronunciation, and pauses, with voice blending capabilities for accent shaping, provided as a research preview toward open-source Thai TTS.
• Typhoon Playground & API Platform Web-based interactive platform providing API access to Typhoon models with model selection, API key authentication, MCP server integration, free and Pro subscription tiers for developers, researchers, and enterprise testers.
• Datasets & Evaluation Tools Collection of open Thai-language datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation tools including ThaiOCRBench, ThaiExam, Isan corpora, and leaderboards on Stanford HELM for assessing model performance in Thai NLP, OCR, and speech tasks.
• Typhoon T1 & Typhoon2-R1 Reasoning Models Open reasoning models that produce structured XML-based thinking traces for multi-step problem solving; Typhoon T1 is the first Thai reasoning model and Typhoon2-R1-70B adds DeepSeek R1 merging for enhanced reasoning in Thai contexts.
• Typhoon-Si-Med-Thinking First-of-its-kind 4B-parameter ranked-list medical reasoning model designed for Thai healthcare applications including medical diagnosis support with uncertainty quantification, available as a Research Preview.

Quantifiable outcome

• Outperforms GPT-3.5 in Thai language tasks while being more cost-effective
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability11 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SCB 10XcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSCB 10X is the parent organization and R&D arm driving Typhoon's development. Typhoon operates as the AI research initiative under SCB DataX Company Limited, part of the SCBX Group.
• VISTECcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on multiple research papers including multilingual reasoning distillation, entity disambiguation, and cross-lingual QA systems.
• Stanford CRFMminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration on Thai language model evaluation and benchmarking through Stanford's Center for Research on Foundation Models.
• NVIDIAcoreTechnology or IntegrationNVIDIA NIM Microservices partnership for enterprise-grade model deployment and scaling.
• Siriraj Hospital SiData+coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealthcare AI implementation partnership for developing RAG-based chatbot for hospital knowledge management.
• Thammasat University Faculty of LawminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for legal domain AI applications and research.
• Mahidol UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic research collaboration in AI and language technology.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Market position

Strengths5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/opentyphoon
• GitHubgithub.com/scb-10x

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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