BharatGPT’s Hanooman Coming Soon

“Hanuman is a great example of responsible power. Despite being the most powerful entity, he never used his power for selfish needs,” said Vishnu Vardhan, founder of SML and Vizzhy, in an exclusive interview with AIM. Steering clear of religious interpretations, he elaborated that the inspiration for the model's name emerged during discussions about its ethical framework. It is a reminder of their model's guiding principle: to always work towards the greater good.

The company is looking to release four open-source models in the Hanooman series (1.5 billion, 7 billion, 13 billion, and 40 billion parameters) by the end of this month. “We are quite ready. But we will do a lot of testing,” said Vardhan. He added that users will be able to converse in 11 languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Marathi. “In the future, we plan to extend language support to all 22 official languages of India,” he said.

“We don’t want it to be like ChatGPT, which suffers from the ‘I’m God and I know everything’ syndrome. We don’t want to simply replicate its success [but be more than that],” said Vardhan, adding that they are currently focusing on specific use cases for Hanooman, predominantly catering to healthcare, education, and enterprise customers.?

Vardhan clarified that Hanooman is an initiative of SML and not Reliance Jio Infocomm. “The media sometimes gets it so wrong. Jio has not invested in Hanooman; it’s an initiative of SML,” he said, adding that they might collaborate with them in the future on telecom and retail use cases.?

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Fueling India’s Space Sector?

The Union Cabinet recently approved amendments to the Indian space sector’s FDI policy, permitting up to 100% investment through liberalised entry routes. The amended policy, sanctioned in the past week, facilitates 100% FDI under the automatic route for manufacturing satellite components, systems, and subsystems.?

The government’s move aligns perfectly with India’s broader space goals, aiming to capture a more substantial share of the global space market, currently at a modest 2%.?

Read what the industry folks have to say about it here.?

Reducing Carbon Footprint??

While AI becomes increasingly pervasive across industries, experts continue to raise the alarm over its growing environmental impact.?

Bengaluru-based Sentra World, founded a year ago by former McKinsey execs, aims to capitalise on the same technology to fight the prevailing issue. The company’s analytics platform uses natural language processing to simplify the measurement of CO? emissions, adhering to established frameworks like the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.?

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AIM Shots??

• Amazon and Google Cloud-backed Anthropic today released the Claude 3 model family, which comprises Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus. Interestingly, Claude 3 Opus outperformed GPT-4 on common benchmarks like MMLU and HumanEval.?
• L&T has announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation in a bid to enhance smart city infrastructure and intelligent transportation systems.?
• Indian unicorn company Gupshup has launched the Conversation Cloud, a comprehensive generative AI-powered suite of SaaS tools to improve business-to-customer interactions.?
• Prominent cloud connectivity company Cloudflare has introduced two new AI-powered security features—Firewall for AI and Defensive AI—to protect organisations against emerging threats in the wake of generative AI.?
• In a move to bolster India’s position in the global semiconductor industry, the government is set to launch the Bharat Semiconductor Research Centre, a collaborative effort with the academia, private sector, and startups. Read more here.?
• Now, ChatGPT can read your texts aloud. OpenAI announced its latest text-to-speech feature, where a user can select a particular text and choose the option of ‘read aloud’ to hear the chatbot read it.?

Union minister Rajiv Chandrasekhar recently expressed his dissatisfaction over Google’s apology and said, “saying sorry is not enough” and does not suffice in light of major internet platforms’ legal expectations and responsibilities. Check the full news here.