Training Azerbaijani language models on Amazon SageMaker AI

Azercell Telecom LLC, Azerbaijan's leading telecommunications provider, wanted to build an Azerbaijani large language model (LLM) on Amazon SageMaker AI for telecom use cases and a customer-facing chatbot. The challenge: adapting foundation models (FMs) to a morphologically rich language with limited training data and no existing blueprint for efficient LLM training in Azerbaijani. In a six-week collaboration, Azercell worked with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to establish a production-ready framework on Amazon SageMaker AI.