IndiaAI Mission Releases Indigenous Foundation Models EKA-1 And Dhīr
· Technology · The Hindu, Economic Times
The IndiaAI Mission under the Ministry of Electronics and IT has unveiled three homegrown foundation models named EKA-1, Dhīr 2B, and Dhīr 5B. Soket Labs Technology and Research developed EKA-1, while ZenteiQ AiTech Innovations built Dhīr 2B and Dhīr 5B. EKA-1 features 26.3 billion parameters, was trained on 7.5 trillion tokens, and supports all 22 scheduled Indian languages alongside English. The models were launched at an event in New Delhi attended by IT Secretary S Krishnan and company leadership. The development was supported by subsidised national AI compute infrastructure and research funding.
Why it matters
The release marks a major step in India's push for technological self-reliance, providing local industries and government agencies with specialized AI tools tailored to domestic languages.
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