- Published on January 23, 2024
- In IT Services
BharatGPT Aims to Become Meta of Indic LLMs
BharatGPT believes in the power of open source as India is one of the largest contributors.
- By Mohit Pandey
When it comes to India and generative AI, all of the recent Indic language models have been built on top of models built by Meta or Mistral. The Indian research community, though is rising up in the realm, wants to build models from scratch, and that is where BharatGPT is finding its moat.
Speaking to AIM, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, professor at IIT Bombay who is leading the BharatGPT initiative said that there is definitely a need for a foundational model for Indic languages. “We are building foundational models from scratch and that is what is keeping us busy,” said Ramakrishnan about how BharatGPT will mark India on the global AI map.
Every company and every country is racing towards being the best at generative AI, more specifically LLMs. In the beginning it was the US companies
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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