AI For India, By India: What It Takes To Build An Open-Source Indic-Language Model

India boasts of around 19,500 local dialects. Small wonder that a generative AI language model which addresses that is an indispensable goal.

Project Indus is built with the help of recorded voice samples from local speakers themselves, among other sources.

Artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI, is not just another buzzword anymore. Ever since OpenAI’s ChaGPT caught on and showed its utility as a virtual assistant that can do anything from writing poems to generating complex codes, the technology has been leveraged by many businesses to make their offerings more efficient and readily helpful. Even governments are taking AI seriously now. AI found notable mention in the recent G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Summit Declaration,