AI, LLM, ML & Related Areas In India: News, Updates & Discussions

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Google Research India head disagrees with Nandan Nilekani, says India must build LLMs

Nilekani said at Metas Build with AI summit in Bengaluru in October that India's goal should not be to build more LLMs. He said the big boys in the (Silicon) Valley can do it while India will create synthetic data, build small language models quickly, and train them using appropriate data.

m.economictimes.com

Cybercoolie see Cybercoolie do !

For all his accomplishments , Nilekani is no risk taker nor are his colleagues. He prefers earnings thru arbitrage ONLY. No wonder Infosys is the way it is & InfoMurthy goes on his senile rants at the frequency of once every month / alternate month.

 

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Meet the Indian AI Startup Quietly Taking Over the Enterprise World

Indian AI startup TWO is quietly marking a mark in the fast-emerging artificial intelligence market. In an interview with AIM, founder Pranav Mistry revealed that the company generated $4 million in revenue this quarter and expected $20 million for next year.

analyticsindiamag.com

Summary:

In an interview with AIM, founder Pranav Mistry revealed that the company generated $4 million in revenue this quarter and expects $20 million for next year.

TWO AI’s SUTRA, a series of multilingual online GenAI models, added a new feather in its cap. The company claims it outperformed GPT-4o, Llama 3.1, and Indic LLMs, including G42’s Nanda, Sarvam’s OpenHathi and AI4Bharat’s Airavata, and leading in over 14 Indian languages.

Unlike other startups, TWO AI targets only big enterprise customers instead of pursuing the consumer market. “Jio is one of our major enterprise customers, and we also work with clients like Shinhan Bank and Samsung SDS in Korea,” Mistry said. He further revealed that the company has started partnering with companies like NVIDIA and Microsoft from a technology perspective, and is working with them as well.

“We are targeting India, Korea, Japan, and some parts of Southeast Asia, like Vietnam, specifically the central region. APAC (Asia-Pacific) is one of the key markets that we are always going to focus on,” Mistry added.

Earlier this year, the company launched ChatSUTRA, a ChatGPT-like chatbot. Mistry shared that the platform currently has over 600,000 unique users.