Delhi Delhi. Chip giant Nvidia on Thursday launched a lightweight artificial intelligence model for India's widely used Hindi language, as it tries to take advantage of the growing market for AI technologies. The California-based company said Chief Executive Jensen Huang is set to hold talks with Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, who is also Asia's richest man, at a conference in the business capital Mumbai. Nvidia is introducing its new mini-language model, called Nemotron-4-mini-4b, with 4 billion parameters that firms can use to develop their own AI models, the company said.
“The model was sorted, distilled and trained with a combination of real-world Hindi data, synthetic Hindi data and an equal amount of English data,” the company said in a statement. Indian IT services and consulting company Tech Mahindra is the first company to develop a custom AI model called Indus 2.0 focused on Hindi and its dozens of dialects using Nvidia's offering. It says only one-tenth of the population of 1.4 billion speaks English in India, where the Constitution recognizes 22 languages.
From large companies to startups, businesses in India have focused on building AI models based on their diverse languages to enhance consumer appeal and pursue activities like customer service AI assistants and content translation. To operate ChatGPT Unlike large-language models like OpenAI's GPT-4, small language models are trained on much smaller and more specific datasets.
They are generally cheaper, making them more attractive to companies with fewer resources. Global chip firms are investing in India and setting up facilities to expand their presence as the country expands its semiconductor industry. is racing to build up and compete with major hubs like Taiwan, though analysts say the effort could take years.Nvidia, which first set up shop in India nearly two decades ago, has engineering and design centres, as well as offices in major cities such as the southern technology hub Bengaluru and neighboring Hyderabad.
Comments are closed.