SEA-HELM (Malay) - NLU: leaderboard
SEA-HELM's natural language understanding competency for Malay: combines its understanding tasks, such as question answering, sentiment analysis and reading comprehension. Normalized 0-100 score from AI Singapore's SEA-HELM leaderboard: (score - random baseline) / (maximum - baseline), floored at 0 and averaged over eight runs; higher is better.
Metric: Normalized Score. Source: leaderboard.sea-lion.ai. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 58 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen 3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning) | 73.43 | #184 (Qwen 3.5 122B A10B) |
| 2 | Gemma 4 26B A4B (IT) (Reasoning) | 73.26 | #293 (Gemma 4 26B A4B (IT)) |
| 3 | Qwen 3.5 27B (Reasoning) | 72.88 | #192 (Qwen 3.5 27B) |
| 4 | Qwen 3.5 35B A3B (Reasoning) | 71.92 | #268 (Qwen 3.5 35B A3B) |
| 5 | Qwen 3.6 27B (Reasoning) | 71.78 | #182 (Qwen 3.6 27B) |
| 6 | Qwen 3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) | 71.43 | #238 (Qwen 3.6 35B A3B) |
| 7 | Qwen 3.5 9B (Reasoning) | 70.33 | #391 (Qwen 3.5 9B) |
| 8 | Qwen 3 32B (Thinking) | 70.07 | #449 (Qwen 3 32B) |
| 9 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | 69.84 | #541 |
| 10 | GPT-OSS-120B (Reasoning) | 69.77 | #346 (GPT-OSS-120B) |
| 11 | Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct | 69.6 | #290 |
| 12 | Llama-SEA-LION-v3-70B-IT | 69.5 | #407 |
| 13 | Qwen 3 14B (Reasoning) | 69.46 | #542 (Qwen 3 14B) |
| 14 | Llama 4 Scout Instruct | 69.08 | #547 |
| 15 | Gemma 3 27B (IT) | 68.82 | #528 |
No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=sea-helm-malay-nlu · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.