Addressing the Hathi in the Room
A five-month old startup, Sarvam.ai took everyone by surprise with the launch of first model of OpenHathi, a Hindi LLM. Backed by Khosla Ventures (early investors of OpenAI), Peak XV and Lightspeed Venture, where it has raised a total of $41 million in funding to build LLMs supporting different Indian languages.
OpenHathi v.01, the inaugural model in the OpenHathi series, utilises Meta's Llama 2 7 billion parameter model as its foundation, OpenHathi demonstrates performance akin to GPT-3.5 for Indic languages. In an exclusive conversation with AIM, the co-founders affirmed their plan to incorporate nine to ten additional Indic languages in the upcoming months.
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