Nvidia launches Hindi AI model in India during CEO Jensen Huang’s visit
- In Reports
- 02:56 PM, Oct 24, 2024
- Myind Staff
Nvidia, a major chip company, launched a new lightweight AI model for the popular Hindi language in India on Thursday. This move aims to tap into the expanding market for AI technologies. Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, is scheduled to talk with Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries at a conference in Mumbai, India’s business hub.
According to the company, Nvidia is releasing its new little language model, Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi-4B, which has four billion parameters, for businesses to utilise when creating their own AI models. "The model was pruned, distilled and trained with a combination of real-world Hindi data, synthetic Hindi data and an equal amount of English data," it said in a statement.
Tech Mahindra, an Indian IT services and consultancy firm, is the first to leverage Nvidia's technology to create a unique AI model called Indus 2.0 that is targeted toward Hindi and dozens of its dialects, according to the US business. According to the report, only 10% of India's 1.4 billion people speak English, despite the country's constitution recognising 22 different languages. Businesses in India, both big and small, have concentrated on developing AI models based on the country's many languages in order to increase consumer appeal and support initiatives like content translation and customer support AI assistants.
Smaller and more focused datasets are utilised to train small-language models, as opposed to large-language models like OpenAI's GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. They are more appealing to businesses with limited resources as they are usually less expensive. Although analysts warn the process could take years, international chip companies are investing in India and establishing facilities to increase their presence as the nation competes with key hubs like Taiwan to develop its semiconductor industry.
Since its first establishment in India almost twenty years ago, Nvidia has maintained offices in major cities like Hyderabad and Bengaluru, the southern tech capital, as well as engineering and design facilities in India.
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