Pathumma Connect: Thai AI can act, but model base still foreign

Nectec (NSTDA) introduced Pathumma Connect, an agentic AI platform that performs multi-step tasks in a single dialogue: rights verification, document preparation, form filling, and status tracking. Pilot agencies are five government bodies, including departments of internal affairs, lands, taxes, and rights protection. The model base uses open Qwen and Whisper models fine-tuned on Thai.

• Platform covers 7 domains: agriculture, government services, water, tourism, culture, education, business
• Five pilot agencies: internal affairs, land, FDA, taxes, rights protection
• Models on Hugging Face: from 23 to 6292 downloads, leader is Whisper for Thai
• Speech recognition model limited to 30 seconds of audio at a time