'I am Sophie': 17-year-old from a small UP city’s Hindi-medium school builds AI robot teacher that can teach any subjectA 17-year-old student has developed an AI-powered robot teacher named Sophie, capable of answering questions across subjects using an LLM c...
29 Nov, 2025, 12.51 PM IST
BharatGen bets on small models to hit big AI goalsAn academic consortium based out of IIT Bombay, BharatGen last week secured the largest government support under the India AI Mission — Rs ...
24 Sep, 2025, 07.48 PM IST
Why Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani feels India doesn’t need a China-type DeepSeek AINandan Nilekani believes AI will enhance rather than replace core human abilities like empathy, leadership, and creativity. He emphasizes t...
24 Feb, 2025, 02.59 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: Meet AI ‘Saba’ trained on Arabic, Tamil, MalayalamIndian startups developing Indic AI models face competition from global players like Mistral AI, which launched a multilingual model traine...
19 Feb, 2025, 06.01 AM IST
Speak fluent एआई and teach the worldIndia's progression in the AI race is driven by its digitally trained workforce and the prevalence of major global languages like English, ...
25 Oct, 2024, 10.50 PM IST
AI firm Fractal has built India's first medical LLM Vaidya. aiAI firm Fractal's Vaidya, fine-tuned using open-source base models which are 30-70 billion parameters in size and trained on 650k+ images a...
14 Aug, 2024, 03.04 PM IST
GENAI: why not play desi beatsThe whole narrative around large language models (LLMs), referred to as foundation/frontier models – pertinent for GenAI – is currently dri...
23 Jul, 2024, 10.59 AM IST
Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s Krutrim AI launches chatbot in beta modeThe chatbot launched is called Krutrim Assistant and works as a personal generative artificial intelligence assistant that employs over 10 ...
26 Feb, 2024, 09.03 PM IST
AI4Bharat releases Hindi LLM ‘Airavata’Airavata was created using SarvamAI’s foundational Hindi model OpenHathi with diverse, instruction-tuning Hindi datasets to make it better ...
25 Jan, 2024, 04.23 PM IST
Indian GenAI firms raised $700 million in 3 years, says Nasscom2022 has been the largest year with $566 million being infused in GenAI startups, followed by $144 million in 2023, data showed. These were...
04 Jan, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: Here are nations at the forefront of GenAI innovationAccording to data science community platform Hugging Face, there has been a rapid influx of new LLMs, with hundreds being announced every w...
27 Dec, 2023, 12.13 PM IST
The story behind the Telugu SLM ‘Chandamama Kathalu’Small language models, trained on limited datasets and fewer parameters, can revive the lost art of telling stories to children in their na...
26 Dec, 2023, 12.58 PM IST
Hindi LLM maker Sarvam AI to open platform for businessFounded by former AI4Bharat researchers Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar in July, Chennai-headquartered Sarvam is planning to release mode...
18 Dec, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
Ola, SarvamAI announce their large language modelsIn two separate developments on Wednesday, mobility unicorn Ola and AI startup SarvamAI have announced their large language models (LLMs) t...
14 Dec, 2023, 06.01 AM IST
Tech Mahindra eyes Dec-Jan release of Hindi LLM under ‘Project Indus’While talks have not yet begun, Tech Mahindra is considering partnerships for compute power, whether it is with Nvidia for GPUs (graphics p...
30 Oct, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
Is Bard chatbot as smart as ChatGPT? A look at Google's AI competitorGoogle's chatbot called Bard is steadily improving after its launch in March 2023. Bard provides three different drafts for every question ...
23 Jul, 2023, 09.56 AM IST
Donald Trump nominates Indian-American lawyer Manisha Singh to key diplomatic positionand the District of Columbia and speaks fluent Hindi.
12 Sep, 2017, 05.29 PM IST