Govt Launches Three Indigenous AI Foundation Models
The government has launched three homegrown AI foundation models called Eka-1, Dhir 2B and Dhir 5B. Foundation models are large general-purpose AI systems that other apps and services can be built on.
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Context: India has been funding a national AI programme, the IndiaAI Mission, to build its own large models rather than rely only on foreign ones. Foundation models are the base systems that chatbots and other AI tools are often built on.