The Rise of Indian Llamas

Llama 2 has been one of the most downloaded open-source language models globally, with close to 757K downloads on HuggingFace. In India, we are witnessing a new wave of Llama 2 adoption, where users are building ‘Local Llamas’ to support low-resource regional languages in the country, besides burgeoning enterprise adoption. This is just the beginning.

Sarvam AI recently introduced the first version of OpenHathi, marking the release of India’s first Hindi LLM in the OpenHathi series of models. Built on a cost-effective platform, this model, extending from Llama 2 7B, exhibits performance similar to that of GPT-3.5 for Indic languages.