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Hello everyone! Your friendly AI human, Amit Raja Naik, is back with this fresh edition of our brand-new newsletter. This time, we will talk about building ‘AI for Bharat’ instead of using ‘Bharat as an excuse to build AI’.  More serious concerns for Ola Krutrim Recently, OpenAI announcedits plans to develop a new tool called Media Manager. The tool enables creators and content owners to specify how their work is used in machine learning research and training AI models. It is designed to respect these choices and is expected to be released by 2025.   The catch is that this new tool will be of great help to OpenAI in collecting Indic data and building GPT models. However, it could also hurt many Indian AI startups, including Ola Krutrim, SML Hanooman, and others, which are still struggling to onboard new users onto their platforms.   Recent statistics reveal that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has amassed over 180 million users globally, with India emerging as its second-largest market. The country accounts for 9.08% of its total user base, reaching approximately 14 million users. Neither Ola Krutrim, nor Hanooman – busy playing the so-called Indian ‘culture’ card – are anywhere close to these figures.   That also explains why OpenAI recently hired Pragya Misra,its first employee in India, as the government relations head to lobby the Indian government and create a safe space for OpenAI to operate in the country. Indic data is all you need  “The amount of high-quality data originally available in Indian languages is quite small,” said Vivek Raghavan, co-founder of Sarvam AI, highlighting the challenges around the dearth of data for low-resource Indic languages.   Further, he said that even if you take the example of Common Crawl, the most common web data repository, “only 0.1% of the text is in Hindi; the other Indian languages are even lower than that”.  Pratyush Kumar and Vivek Raghavan, the founders of Sarvam AI, have previously worked with another homegrown AI venture, AI4Bharat, which is building Indic language datasets like IndicVoices.  Similarly, Tech Mahindra, which is developing its own Hindi LLM ‘Project Indus’ consisting of 539 million parameters and 10 billion Hindi+ dialect tokens, sent its crew to north India to collect data.  Coincidentally, similar to OpenAI’s Media Manager, Bhashini has also introduced Bhashan Daan to create a large and open repository of data in various Indian languages.  Customer-centric, not ego-centric  The only moat most Indian AI startups currently have is the plethora of Indic datasets they hoard or harness. Now, with OpenAI introducing the Media Manager tool, its presence in the country could expand multifold, hindering growth for a bunch of companies building ChatGPT alternatives or other similar tools.   TBH, most Indian AI startups are two years behind OpenAI or any other AI startup in the West.They have barely begun, and it is high time they ran a reality check and focused on developing innovative and collaborative solutions to cater to Indian consumers and enterprises instead of competing aimlessly.   India’s CTO, Nandan Nilekani, recently aired similar views. He said that India is not in the race to build LLMs and that it should focus on building AI use cases that will reach every citizen. “Winners in AI in India will be those who meet customers where they are,” he declared. In a recent interview with AIM, Sarvam AI’s Raghavan too echoed a similar idea. “We’ve just started here; I don’t think we are trying to build the class of models that OpenAI is trying to build with GPT-5,” he said, sharing his company’s strategy of leveraging existing AI tools as well as in-house models to build meaningful products that impact millions of people in the country.   Read the full story here.  📯 Intuit 🌀 –Call for Papers: AI for Content Generation and Personalisation [Submit here] 📝 The World Needs Something Better Than the Transformer The latest paper by Sepp Hochreiter, the inventor of LSTM, has unveiled a new LLM architecture featuring a significant innovation – xLSTM, which stands for Extended Long Short-Term Memory. The new architecture addresses a major flaw in the previous LSTM designs, which were sequential in nature and unable to process all information at once.  Read more here.  INDIA  Tredence recently appointed Munjay Singh as its chief operating officer to drive the company’s ambitious growth strategies amid significant expansion and innovation in data science and AI.  Doctors from Gem Hospital, Chennai, recently used Apple Vision Pro to conduct over 30 surgeries, heralding a transformative stride in healthcare technology adoption. GNANI.AI introduced India’s inaugural voice-first SLM, tailored for vernacular languages and focused on sectors like banking, insurance, automotive, and retail. AI Conclave Wonders Rakuten India, in partnership with AIM, is hosting the fourth edition of the Rakuten Product Conference (RPC) ‘24, a virtual event on May 21-22, focusing on Enterprise SaaS and AI for data scientists and innovators globally. What are you waiting for? Click here to register >>   Enjoying Sector 6 (formerly AIM Daily XO)? Share it with colleagues or friends – they can sign up here.   We love hearing from our readers! 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