Singh & Sins of AI 💦

Not sure if you have watched the latest Bold Care ad satirising Indian soap operas [must watch], but the Indian open-source AI ecosystem is also going through somewhat similar, where Meta’s Llama 2 is the Sins and everybody else working on building Indic LLMs are the Singh. 

When it comes to India and generative AI, all the recent Indic language models such as Sarvam AI’s OpenHathi, alongside Kannada, Telugu, Odia and Tamil, have been built on top of models built by Meta’s Llama 2. There is a dire need for India to build its own open source model from scratch and let others build on top of it.