Item 1 of 2 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the launch of the Gefion supercomputer at Vilhelm Lauritzen Terminal in Kastrup, Denmark, October 23, 2024. Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen via REUTERS/ File Photo
MUMBAI, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Chip giant Nvidia on Thursday expanded ties with India’s major companies such as Reliance Industries and launched a lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) model for the widely used Hindi language, as it looks to tap into a growing market.
“Nvidia is AI in India,” Huang said. “In just a year, by the end of this year, we will have almost 20 times more computing power here in India than we had just over a year ago,” he added, referring to computing infrastructure.
From large companies to startups, companies in India have focused on building AI models based on its diverse languages to broaden consumer appeal and drive activities such as AI assistants for customer service and content translation.
Nvidia said it is rolling out the new small language model, called Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi-4B, with 4 billion parameters, that companies can use when developing their own AI models.
“The model was pruned, distilled and trained using a combination of real-world Hindi data, synthetic Hindi data and an equal amount of English data,” the report said.
Only a tenth of the population of 1.4 billion people speak English in India, where the constitution recognizes 22 languages, it added.
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Unlike large language models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, which are used to power ChatGPT, small language models are trained on much smaller and more specific data sets. They also tend to be cheaper and more attractive to companies with scarce resources.
Global chip companies are investing and setting up facilities in India as the country races to build its semiconductor industry and compete with major hubs like Taiwan, although analysts say this could take years.
Since its founding nearly two decades ago, Nvidia has had engineering and design centers in India, as well as offices in key cities such as the southern technology hub of Bengaluru and neighboring Hyderabad.
In September last year, Reliance and Nvidia pledged to develop AI supercomputers in India and build large language models trained on its languages. Later that year, Nvidia unveiled a similar partnership with Tata Group.
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Reporting by Arsheeya Bajwa in Mumbai and Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
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