India must build foundational AI models or risk becoming a mere consumer: BharatGen

Backed by a ₹1,058-crore government grant, the IIT Bombay-led consortium has built its first model from scratch, but experts ...
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Google Deepmind To Roll Out AI Science Models For Indian Researchers

The collaboration is part of Deepmind’s National Partnerships for AI programme, under which it works with countries to deploy its frontier AI models in areas aligned with national priorities Deepmind ...
MIT Technology Review

Inside India’s scramble for AI independence

Structural challenges and the nation’s many languages have made it tough to develop foundational AI models. But the government is keen not to be left behind. In Bengaluru, India, Adithya Kolavi felt a ...

AI for science: India’s chance to leapfrog the R&D race

While most conversations on AI focus on productivity or creative tools, its most transformative impact is unfolding quietly ...
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India Needs To Guard Its Data, Build Its Own AI Models: IndiaAI Mission CEO

India needs to protect its data and intellectual property from being harvested by global tech firms offering “free” AI tools, said Abhishek Singh, CEO of India AI Mission and additional secretary in ...
Forbes

India Can Train A Sovereign Model But Still Cannot Prove It Works

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. On February 18, at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Sarvam AI unveiled five ...
TechCrunch

Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open source AI

Indian AI lab Sarvam on Tuesday unveiled a new generation of large language models, as it bets that smaller, efficient open source AI models will be able to grab some market share away from more ...