The government, May 30, announced the names of three more startups selected to build India’s first home-grown artificial intelligence (AI) foundational model: SoketAI, Gnani.ai, and Gan AI.
Earlier, on April 26, Sarvam AI was shortlisted for the same initiative, with the government indicating that two to three more startups would be added to the programme.
“Like Sarvam, the three teams have a very big target in front of them. Whichever sector they are targeting, they should become the top 5 in the world,” IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at an event.
Vaishnaw added that the mission has created the opportunity, to bring talent back to India. “I hope young talent sees this and comes back to India. This will also be a major achievement.”
SoketAI. Soket AI will develop India's first open source 120 billion parameter foundational model optimised for the country; linguistic diversity targeting sectors such as defence, healthcare and education
The minister highlighted that India is building a sovereign AI ecosystem, right from the foundational model to compute capacity to safety tools, and technologies.
Meanwhile, Vaishnaw announced that Gnani.ai will build a 14 billion parameter Voice AI foundational model delivering multilingual, real time speech processing with advanced reasoning capabilities.
On the other hand, Gan AI will create a 70 billion parameter model multilingual foundational model targeting superhuman text-to-speech (TTS) model capabilities to surpass current global leaders. Currently, companies such as ElevenLabs, Speechify, Synthesia, among others, are considered leaders in the TTS space.
“We are making significant progress in the seven pillars of the IndiaAI Mission,” Vaishnaw said. The seven pillars are of the IndiaAI Mission are compute capacity, innovation centre, datasets Pplatform, application development initiative, future skills, startup financing, and safe and trusted AI.
“Common compute is an important part of democratising access to this technology. It was brought in because so that this resource does not remain in the hands of only one or two entities,” the minister further said.
Vaishnaw added that India has 367 datasets on AI Kosh, the non-personal data platform.
Moreover, he had a message for India’s $280 billion IT industry: “Capture this transition as an opportunity rather than getting disrupted by it.”
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