In an attempt to capitalize on the expanding market for artificial intelligence technology, chip giant Nvidia unveiled a lightweight AI model for India’s popular Hindi language on Thursday. At a meeting in Mumbai, the business hub of India, CEO Jensen Huang will speak alongside Mukesh Ambani, the head of the conglomerate Reliance Industries and Asia’s richest man, the California-based company announced.
According to the corporation, Nvidia is releasing its new little language model, Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi-4B, which has four billion parameters, for businesses to utilize 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 stated in a statement.
According to the US corporation, Tech Mahindra, an Indian IT services and consulting firm, is the first to leverage Nvidia’s offering to create a unique AI model called Indus 2.0 that is targeted toward Hindi and dozens of its variants.
In India, where 22 languages are recognized by the constitution, only 10% of the 1.4 billion people speak English, it was added. In order to increase consumer appeal and support initiatives like content translation and customer service AI assistants, Indian firms, both big and small, have concentrated on developing AI models based on the country’s many languages.
Small language models are trained on far more specialized and smaller datasets than large-language models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. Because they are usually less expensive, they are more appealing to businesses with little funding.
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.
Having initially established operations in India almost twenty years ago, Nvidia now maintains engineering and design facilities there in addition to offices in important locations like Hyderabad, which is nearby, and Bengaluru, a tech hotspot in the south.