Trendyol was the only company from Turkiye to participate in the 2024 World Governments Summit, where Turkiye was among the guests of honor. Trendyol Group President Caglayan Cetin shared the local solution language model developed by Trendyol’s Turkish engineers with artificial intelligence technology with the participants at one of the most prestigious conferences in the world, in an artificial intelligence panel attended by the leading names of the industry.
The 2024 World Governments Summit, where Turkiye, Qatar and India were guests of honor, was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 12-14 February. More than 25 state and government leaders, as well as many ministers, state officials and experts in their fields attended the summit.
Trendyol was the only company from Turkiye to participate in the panel, which was held within the scope of the 11th summit with the theme of “Shaping the Governments of the Future” and included the world’s leading private sector and public representatives. Trendyol Group President Caglayan Cetin attended the panel titled “Towards the Future of Responsible Artificial Intelligence” held within the scope of the summit, together with leading experts in the field of artificial intelligence. Among these names are names such as Omar Bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of Artificial Intelligence of the United Arab Emirates, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels, META vice president Dr. Yann LeCun. At the summit, Caglayan Cetin shared Trendyol’s language model “Trendyol LLM”, developed by Turkish engineers as a domestic solution, with the participants.
The artificial intelligence language model developed by Trendyol engineers will be available to the Turkish technology ecosystem
Trendyol, which has created countless positive impacts on Turkiye and the Turkish technology-entrepreneurship ecosystem since the day it was founded, has developed a versatile language model that can speak Turkish and English. Local Trendyol LLM, which is expected to make a significant contribution to companies especially in e-export and developed by Trendyol engineers on Meta’s LLaMa2 model, will be made available to the technology ecosystem in Turkiye as open source. Trendyol LLM, which has been developed for general purpose use for now, can be customized by companies according to their own purposes.
A wide range of literature was scanned and data was cleaned
To create a model specific to Turkiye, an extensive literature review was first conducted. Data collection and filtering processes were carried out in the light of the information obtained. Trendyol engineers trained this language model for approximately 4 months. During the first 3 months, engineers benefited from open sources and used Trendyol data. In the last month, using a data set of 10 billion tokens, engineers trained the existing model to learn Turkish better and capture semantic relationships. A chat model that can respond to commands and requests was created using a dataset of 180 thousand question-answer pairs.
Trendyol LLM is aimed to be the gateway of Turkish sellers to global markets
Trendyol LLM, which can speak Turkish and English, can be used in many areas as it can be customized according to need. It is aimed that the user experiences that will emerge from this will pave the way for developments in many areas, from improving chatbots to information extraction for search infrastructures. Trendyol, which brings together hundreds of thousands of manufacturers and tradesmen in Turkiye with the world through e-export, also plans to customize LLM to be the digital assistant of its sellers in world markets. The company aims for Trendyol LLM to be the gateway of Turkish sellers to global markets in the future. In this way, Trendyol aims to help sellers overcome the language barrier and facilitate export processes by translating in many languages with a single click.
Source: Egirisim / Prepared by Irem Yildiz