- Published on May 29, 2024
- In AI Features
Open Source is a Good Start for India
India should focus on how to solve ground level problems. Open source is the answer to all.
Image by Nikhil Kumar
- By Sagar Sharma
Cropin’s Aksara AI model is a perfect example of how you can build a solution on top of open-source models. Aksara is a micro language model built on top of Mistral-7B-v0.1, aiming to democratise agricultural knowledge to empower farmers.
There are other models like OpenHathi and Tamil LLaMA that are built on open-source models trying to break the language barrier.
Sure, there are initiatives and companies that are building LLMs from scratch in India, like Mahindra's Project Indus, Sarvam AI, and Krutrim AI, but they have yet to be released to the general public, and for now, open-source LLMs are the only way forward.
As Nandan Nilekani rightly pointed out, India's focus should be on using AI to make a difference in people's lives. “We are not in the arms race to build
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Sagar Sharma
A software engineer who loves to experiment with new-gen AI. He also happens to love testing hardware and sometimes they crash. While reviving his crashed system, you can find him reading literature, manga, or watering plants.
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