Chip giant Nvidia on Thursday launched a lightweight artificial intelligence model for India’s widely used Hindi language, as it seeks to enter the growing market for AI technologies. The California-based company said Chief Executive Jensen Huang is set to hold talks with Reliance Industries Group Chairman Mukesh Ambani, also Asia’s richest man, at a conference in the business capital of Mumbai.

Nvidia is introducing its new mini-language model, called Nemotron-4-mini-4b, with 4 billion parameters, to help companies develop their own AI models, the company said.

“The model was harvested, distilled and trained with a combination of real-world Hindi data, synthetic Hindi data and
“The same amount of English data,” it said in a statement.

Indian IT services and consulting company Tech Mahindra is the first company to use Nvidia’s offering to develop custom AI
The American company said that the model named Indus 2.0 focuses on Hindi and its dozens of dialects.

Only about one-tenth of the population of 1.4 billion speaks English in India, where the Constitution recognizes 22 languages.
Added. From large companies to startups, businesses in India have focused on building AI models based on their diverse languages ​​to increase consumer appeal and drive activities like customer service AI assistants and content translation.

Unlike large-language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4, used to power ChatGPT, small language models are trained on much smaller and more specific datasets. They are generally cheaper, making them more attractive to companies with fewer resources.

Global chip companies are investing in India and setting up facilities to expand their presence as the country races to build up its semiconductor industry and compete with major hubs like Taiwan, though analysts say This effort may take years.

Nvidia, which first set up shop in India nearly two decades ago, also has engineering and design centers there
Offices in major cities like the southern tech hub Bengaluru and neighboring Hyderabad.