Nvidia launches AI model with Hindi language support in India

Nvidia on Thursday (October 24) launched a lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) model with support for Hindi language , as it looks to tap into a growing market for AI technologies . The model is called Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi-4B and it can be easily deployed on any NVIDIA GPU-accelerated system for optimised performance.

IT services and consulting company Tech Mahindra is the first to use the Nemotron Hindi NIM microservice – on which the model is available – to develop an AI model called Indus 2.0, which is focused on Hindi and dozens of its dialects.

“The Nemotron Hindi model has 4 billion parameters and is derived from Nemotron-4 15B, a 15-billion parameter multilingual language model developed by NVIDIA. The model was pruned, distilled and trained with a combination of real-world Hindi data, synthetic Hindi data and an equal amount of English data using NVIDIA NeMo, an end-to-end, cloud-native framework and suite of microservices for developing generative AI,” the company said.

India’s deep expertise in computer science a natural resource: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also talked about how India is an important player in the AI era.

“And as you know, the IT industry of India is world renowned for its very large scale, and not just in size, but in deep expertise of computer science. Very few countries in the world have this natural resource, this amazing natural resource called IT and computer science expertise,” he said during the Fireside chat with Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) chairman, at the NVIDIA AI Summit 2024 being held at the Jio World Centre, Mumbai.

“In the last couple of years, we've been working together to upskill and we've now upskilled about 200,000 IT professionals into the world of AI. What do we have to do together? And how can we work together to help transform India at the speed of light, really? Because everything is moving so fast to transform India into a centre, not of just IT, but a centre of AI,” he added.

Huang also announced that Reliance and Nvidia are partnering to build AI infrastructure here in India.