Addressing the Hathi in the Room

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TAUSIF ALAM & AMIT RAJA NAIK Tuesday, Dec 19, 2023 | Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here ___________________________________________________________ A five-month old startup, Sarvam.ai took everyone by surprise with the launch of first model of OpenHathi, a Hindi LLM. Backed by Khosla Ventures (early investors of OpenAI), Peak XV and Lightspeed Venture, where it has raised a total of $41 million in funding to build LLMs supporting different Indian languages.    OpenHathi v.01, the inaugural model in the OpenHathi series, utilises Meta's Llama 2 7 billion parameter model as its foundation, OpenHathi demonstrates performance akin to GPT-3.5 for Indic languages. In an exclusive conversation with AIM, the co-founders affirmed their plan to incorporate nine to ten additional Indic languages in the upcoming months. It’s important to note that the company is not only building open-source models, but also aims to develop a platform and help build AI-powered applications. The platform covers every stage of an LLM application's lifecycle, encompassing evaluation, monitoring, and scalability. The startup has also found the use case of the product with its Indic language models that can improve existing digital public goods or applications and serve as a basis for creating new applications. For instance, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revealed intentions to incorporate an AI-powered voice interface for UPI payments. This marks a substantial transformation. In the evolving realm of our digitised economy, integrating AI as a layer adds value to current systems. Acknowledging the opportunity within India's digital infrastructure, the company aims to harness AI to provide a variety of distinctive services to citizens. Read the full story here. AI Solution for Telcos  Amdocs and NVIDIA have collaborated to optimise Large Language Models (LLMs) for generative AI applications in the telecommunications and media industries, constituting a $1.7 trillion market. Amdocs, specialising in software and services for various sectors, plans to customise enterprise-grade LLMs within its amAIz generative AI framework for telcos, enhancing customer experiences and optimising network provisioning.  Leveraging NVIDIA DGX Cloud AI supercomputing and AI Enterprise software, the collaboration aligns with Amdocs' strategy to advance AI use cases, addressing the challenges faced by telcos in revenue generation and the shift to composable, cloud-native architectures. Read the full story here. Clash of Titans    AMD and NVIDIA are at loggerheads, each aiming to demonstrate superiority over the other. During AMD's "AI Everywhere" event, CEO Lisa Su compared the newly-launched MI 300X to NVIDIA's H100 inference performance using Llama. The AMD GPU was presented as the winner in this comparison. However, NVIDIA responded with a separate comparison, asserting the H100's excellence over the MI 300X.  In response to NVIDIA's challenge, AMD has released new MI300X benchmarks, revealing a significant 30% performance improvement compared to the H100, even with a finely-tuned software stack. Meanwhile, NVIDIA has yet to counter the attack by publishing new results that demonstrate its superiority over AMD. Read the full story here.  Browsing through Robotics After building a successful social media platform, ShareChat, Farid Ahsan and Bhanu Pratap Singh are out there to transform robotics. Singh and Ahsan are IIT-Kanpur alumni, who studied  Electrical and Material Science Engineering, respectively. With this new project, they plan to transform the future of factories by developing robots specifically designed for the industrial sector.  These machines will be powered by artificial intelligence platforms. To establish this, the company has secured $3 million in seed funding, with investments from India Quotient, ElevCap, and mentorship from esteemed investors such as Mayank Khanduja and Anand Lunia. Read the full story here. DOWNLOAD OUR MOBILE APP Stay Connected info@analyticsindiamag.com © 2023 Analytics India Magazine

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