Mumbai: Nvidia has launched a new lightweight artificial intelligence model tailored for the Hindi language, signaling its intent to capitalize on the expanding AI technology sector in India.
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The newly introduced model, named Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi-4B, contains 4 billion parameters and is designed for businesses to develop customized AI solutions. Nvidia explained that the model has been optimized through a process that involved pruning and distilling it with a mix of real-world Hindi data, synthetic Hindi data, and an equivalent amount of English data.
Tech Mahindra, an Indian IT and consulting firm, is the first to utilize Nvidia's model to create a bespoke AI system called Indus 2.0, which will cater to Hindi and its various dialects. With only about 10% of India's 1.4 billion population speaking English, and the country’s constitution recognizing 22 languages, the demand for localized AI solutions is significant.
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Businesses across India, from large corporations to startups, are increasingly focused on developing AI models that reflect the country's linguistic diversity to enhance customer engagement and improve services like AI-driven customer support and content translation.
Unlike larger models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT, these smaller language models are trained on more specialized datasets. This makes them more affordable, appealing to companies with limited budgets.
As global semiconductor companies invest in India to strengthen the local semiconductor industry and compete with established hubs like Taiwan, Nvidia has been a key player in the region for nearly two decades, with engineering and design centers and offices in major cities, including Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
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