MeitY additional secretary Abhishek Singh exhorted Indian startups and innovators to join the challenge of building an Indian foundational model
Singh said that “foreign” foundational models are trained on western data sets and are not aligned to Indian languages and situations
This comes more than two months after the Centre said that it would undertake the BharatGen project to build a multimodal large language model (LLM)
Additional secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Abhishek Singh has reportedly said that the government is in the process of floating a proposal to build an Indian foundational artificial intelligence (AI) model.
“To ensure that we are able to compete with the world’s best, we are coming up with a call for proposals for building a foundational model in India…,” said Singh, as per The Hindu businessline.
He also exhorted Indian startups and innovators to join the challenge of building an Indian foundational model, without disclosing a timeline for inviting the proposal. Citing his rationale, the additional secretary said that “foreign” foundational models are trained on western data sets and are not aligned with Indian languages and situations.
He added that there is a need to “invest and provide funding support” for building an Indian foundational model.
This comes more than two months after the Centre said that it would undertake the BharatGen project to build a multimodal large language model (LLM).
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