foundational models

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) products like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini become ubiquitous, India will develop its own foundational models, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said."We will be developing our own Indian foundational models. The world is talking about ChatGPT and OpenAI. Based on our own languages and our own India data sets, we expect that as a consequence of India's AI mission, we will have sovereign AI models that are designed and built in India," the…

Aggarwal, thus, joins the growing ranks of Indian companies that are building large language models (LLMs) trained on Indian languages. The companies include Bhashini–a unit of the national language translation mission by the ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity); Tech Mahindra’s Indus project; AI4Bharat at IIT-Madras; Project Vaani–part of the Bhasha AI project of ARTPARK and the Indian Institute of Science’s pan-India language initiatives; Sarvam AI’s OpenHathi series; and…