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Can Soket AI Power India’s Foundational LLM Dream?
- In June 2023, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman visited India and sparked the creation of SocketAI, a startup aimed at developing India's own large language model (LLM).
- Soket AI, founded in 2019, has been selected by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to develop Indian LLMs.
- Soket AI's Project EKA focuses on building a foundational 120-billion-parameter model with support from academic institutions and the government.
- The startup, led by founder Abhishek Upperwal, shifted focus to AI after witnessing the potential in the field.
- Soket AI launched 'Pragna-1B' as India's first open-source multilingual model, paving the way for future developments.
- The startup's revenue stream primarily comes from its TensorStudio voice agent API, with plans for a foundational AI model in progress.
- Building foundational models, like Soket AI's planned 120-billion-parameter model, incurs high computational costs, posing a challenge.
- The government's computational support will aid Soket AI in reducing building costs for its LLM while focusing on revenue generation through TensorStudio.
- Soket AI is expanding its team, focusing on LLM development for various sectors like defence, agriculture, legal, and education, aiming to drive innovation and revenue generation.
- The startup is also enhancing its real-time speech API with improved text-to-speech models to offer better emotion conveyance in audio.
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