Soket AI Labs and Google Cloud Launched India’s First Multilingual AI Model [Video]

Soket AI Labs, the Indian AI research firm behind Pragna-1B, India’s first open-source multilingual foundation model, has announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud to further enhance the model’s capabilities and reach. Pragna-1B, which was initially released on May 1, 2024, aims to enable the adoption of Generative AI in India by providing support for vernacular languages such as Hindi, English, Bengali, and Gujarati.

Abhishek Upperwal, Founder of Soket AI Labs, said, “By leveraging Google cloud, Pragna-1B, despite being trained on fewer parameters, is efficient and compares performance in language processing tasks to similar category models.”

He further added, “Tailored specifically for vernacular languages, Pragna-1B offers balanced language representation and enables faster and more efficient tokenization suited for organisations seeking optimised operations and enhanced functionality.”

The collaboration also aims to make Pragna-1B more accessible to developers and organisations. Soket AI Labs plans to list its AI Developer Platform on the Google Cloud Marketplace …