TurboML, an SF-based AI company, has launched a new initiative aimed at bringing together Indian-origin AI researchers from around the world. The goal is to develop foundation models that will support the country’s future in AI.
“We’re collaborating with the best minds to build foundation models that will power India’s AI future” wrote TurboML CEO Siddharth Bhatia on X. In his post, he mentioned discussing the initiative in a meeting with IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
Bhatia notes that India faces challenges when building AI foundation models, primarily due to the lack of internet-scale data compared to countries like the US and China. Besides, the linguistic diversity adds to the woes.
He also highlighted India’s contributions to AI, including work on Transformers and models like GPT and Llama, and noted a gap in models that capture the country’s unique style of code-switching between languages and dialects.
TurboML is hiring remote AI engineers for this initiative.
China’s DeepSeek, which is claimed to be built under $6 million, has taken India by storm. The race to build foundational AI model has started in the country. IndiaAI Mission has received 67 proposals, with 20 of them planning to build LLMs.
