MBZUAI releases Nanda giving over half a billion Hindi speakers access to the world’s best open-source Hindi LLM | PR Newswire [Video]

10-billion parameter open-source large language model available for use following announcement earlier this year

, /PRNewswire/ — Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) – the world’s first graduate-level artificial intelligence (AI) university dedicated to research – has released Nanda, the world’s most advanced open-source Hindi large language model (LLM).

The model, released as open source, was developed by the University’s Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) in partnership with Inception (a G42 company) and Cerebras Systems, and was announced earlier this year. The release marks a significant milestone in the ongoing development of India’s AI ecosystem and its journey to equitable AI, with more than half-a-billion Hindi speakers now able to harness the potential of generative AI in their mother tongue.

Llama-3-Nanda-10B-Chat, or Nanda for short, is a 10-billion parameter model, which demonstrates better knowledge and reasoning capabilities in Hindi than any existing open Hindi and multilingual models of similar size by a sizable margin, based on extensive evaluation. It …