In November last year, OpenAIunveiled its AI-based service Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, popularly known as ChatGPT. The chatbot based on a large language model (LLM) caught the attention of businesses and people around the world who began using it for a variety of purposes.

ChatGPT marked the tipping point for generative AI, which was followed by a series of other open models such as Bard, Mistral, and Llama 2. However, these models have limited or no support for Indian languages, making them unsuitable for non-English use cases.

Sensing an opportunity here, several homegrown LLMs have emerged on the horizon and are gaining significant momentum in the AI landscape. Apart from addressing language diversity, they also cater to specific cultural nuances.

Interestingly, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had earlier this year dismissed any significant competition to OpenAI from India. Now it may be too early to say if Indian models can pose a challenge to OpenAI, but they are making strong strides in the LLM race.

Here’s a roundup of some homegrown startups in the LLM space and the unique models they are developing.

Krutrim by Ola

Bengaluru-based Krutrim SI Designs, an AI startup founded by Olaco-founder Bhavish Aggarwal, has launched India’s own AI model developed from scratch.

‘Krutrim’ (which means ‘artificial’ in Sanskrit) claims to be India’s first AI-based full-stack solution, built on Indian knowledge and data and Indian languages.

Trained on 2 trillion tokens, this LLM comprehends over 22 Indian languages and responds/generates content in about 10 languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Gujarati, Odia, and Malayalam.

Tokens serve as the fundamental components for processing and representing text data in LLMs.

The startup claims Krutrim was developed in just three........

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