Chip giant Nvidia on Thursday launched a lightweight artificial intelligence model for India's popular Hindi language to tap a growing market for artificial intelligence technologies.
Chief Executive Jensen Huang is expected to meet Reliance Industries conglomerate Chairman Mukesh Ambani, who is also Asia's richest man, at a conference in the business capital of Mumbai, the company said Californian.
Nvidia is rolling out its new small language model, called Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi-4B, with 4 billion parameters, for companies to use in developing their own AI models, the company said .
“The model was pruned, distilled and trained with a combination of real Hindi data, synthetic Hindi data and an equal amount of English data,” the company said in a statement.
Indian IT services and consulting company Tech Mahindra is the first to use Nvidia's offering to develop a custom AI model called Indus 2.0, focused on Hindi and dozens of its dialects, the company said American.
Only a tenth of the 1.4 billion population speaks English in India, where the constitution recognizes 22 languages, she added.
Indian companies, from large corporations to startups, have focused on creating AI models based on the country's different languages to increase consumer appeal and encourage activities such as AI assistants for customer service and content translation.
Unlike large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4, used to power ChatGPT, small language models are trained on much smaller and more specific datasets.
They are generally less expensive, making them more attractive to businesses with fewer resources.
International chip companies are investing in India and setting up facilities to expand their presence, as the country strives to grow its semiconductor industry and compete with major hubs such as Taiwan, although analysts say this effort could take years.
Nvidia, which first set up operations in India nearly two decades ago, has engineering and design centers there, as well as offices in major cities such as Bengaluru, the southern tech hub. country, and Hyderabad, the neighboring city.