Microsoft-backed G42, an Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence (AI) technology company, unveiled a Hindi large language model (LLM) for India on Tuesday. The name of the AI model is Nanda. The company has trained it with large volumes of datasets in both Hindi, English, and Hinglish languages. The company developed the generative AI model in collaboration with MBZUAI and Cerebras Systems. Currently, the company has not announced the use cases for the LLM. Last year, the AI firm released the Jais AI model.
G42 unveils a hindi large language model
In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), G42 India CEO Manu Kumar Jain unveiled Nanda. Microsoft unveiled it at the UAE-India Business Forum in Mumbai in the presence of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal. The LLM gets its name from the second-highest mountain peak in India, Nanda Devi.
Jain also highlighted some of the specifications of the LLM. According to the post, Nanda is a 13-billion-parameter model. It is trained on approximately 2.13 trillion tokens of language datasets including Hindi, English and Hinglish. The CEO also added that Nanda is a bi-lingual model and is also proficient in Hinglish. This is a hybrid language that blends Romanised letters and Devanagari pronunciation.
Currently, the company has not shared any release timeline for the AI model. Jain said, “We genuinely believe that #Nanda can get integrated into the fabric of India. It meets all the sovereign requirements and can help take large-scale technology initiatives to newer heights. It will offer over half a billion Hindi language speakers the opportunity to harness the potential of generative AI.”
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