ปทุมมา Connect: AI ไทยลงมือทำงานได้ แต่ฐานโมเดลยังมาจากต่างชาติ

The Pathumma Connect AI system has arrived in Thailand, and while the technology is impressive, the foundation of the models still comes from abroad. Dr. Wutthaya Chumvitara, the head of the Smart Technology Research Group at Nokka, an institution in Nakhon Ratchasima, stated that the Pathumma LLM (Language Model) is built upon 20 years of research in language and speech processing for the Thai language.

The seven domains that Pathumma LLM focuses on are agriculture, government, water, travel, culture, education, and insight.

There are four points that are not mentioned in the news and are important to understand the full potential of Pathumma Connect. First, Pathumma Connect is not a new product in 2026 and chatbots have been around since at least 2023. The second point is that the concept of "Thai-ness" in the models refers to the adaptation of the language, not the creation of models from scratch.

The third point highlights that the download statistics for Pathumma models on Hugging Face are low, with the most popular model being the speech-to-text model, and the fourth point points out that most users choose to run the models on their own computers rather than through APIs, indicating a need for better accessibility. Lastly, Pathumma Connect operates on the principle of Sovereign AI, focusing on data sovereignty and control over AI systems within the country.