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[Exclusive] Tech Mahindra to Announce Project Indus 2 Soon [Video]

Nikhil Malhotra, chief innovation officer at Tech Mahindra, announced at Cypher 2024, India’s biggest AI conference, that the company will launch Project Indus 2 within a couple of months. 

“NVIDIA is a great partner, and you should all look forward to next month when we plan to launch Project Indus 2. We’re going to make it state-of-the-art in terms of Hindi and its various dialects, using a modern, open-source approach. I developed this model to raise awareness and show the world that India has the capability to achieve this,” said Malhotra. 

Most recently, Malhotra also met NVIDIA chief Jensen Huang and the team at NVIDIA’s offices to discuss sovereign LLMs.

Tech Mahindra launched Project Indus earlier this June through its R&D arm, Makers Lab. This AI model is built to converse in multiple Indic languages and dialects, starting with Hindi and its 37+ variations.

The model has 1.2 billion parameters and was trained on 22 billion tokens. …

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