IT services major Tech Mahindra has announced the launch of a new Hindi-first LLM focused on education developed in collaboration with NVIDIA as part of its “Project Indus” initiative. The new model aims to promote democratisation in the education sector by providing a foundational understanding of complex subjects like physics in natural Hindi. It also supports the development of autonomous AI agents that can speak and respond in fluent Hindi. While the first version of Project Indus featured 1.2 Bn parameters, the new education-focused model uses a more advanced architecture with 8 Bn parameters. The use of NVIDIA’s advanced AI frameworks and infrastructure support, such as the NeMo framework and NVIDIA NIM microservices, enabled these advancements. Given the lack of Hindi-language data sets, it has been trained on half a billion synthetic tokens (artificially-created data) generated by NVIDIA’s NeMo Data Designer. “AI is becoming central to national digital infrastructure and inclusive growth, but global foundational models are often not designed for countries with deep linguistic and cultural diversity like India. A key industry challenge is the lack of domain-trained language models grounded in local languages and learning contexts, particularly in education. Through Project Indus, our collaboration with NVIDIA directly addresses… Read MoreInc42 Media
