G42 unveils Hindi LLM ‘NANDA’ at UAE-India Business Forum

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UAE-based technology group G42 has announced the upcoming launch of NANDA, an advanced Hindi large language model (LLM), at the UAE-India Business Forum in Mumbai.

The event took place during the recent state visit of Sheikh Khaled bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, to India.

NANDA is a 13 billion-parameter model, trained on approximately 2.13 trillion tokens of language data, with a strong focus on Hindi.

The model is expected to revolutionise AI capabilities for over half a billion Hindi speakers. “India’s tech leadership, driven by initiatives like Digital India and Startup India, has set the stage for AI-powered growth. With NANDA, G42 is proud to support India’s AI ambitions,” said Manu Jain, CEO of G42 India.

NANDA trained using Condor Galaxy

Named after one of India’s highest peaks, the LLM was developed through collaboration between Inception (a G42 subsidiary), the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), and Cerebras Systems.

It was trained using Condor Galaxy, one of the world’s most powerful AI supercomputers, jointly built by G42 and Cerebras.

Building on the success of JAIS, G42’s Arabic LLM launched in 2023, NANDA aims to accelerate the development of Hindi-language AI applications and create a robust AI ecosystem in India.

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