India, June 12 -- In a remarkable initiative blending artificial intelligence (AI) and regional heritage, four final-year computer engineering students from the Pimpri-Chinchwad College of Engineering (PCCOE) have developed 'Marathi Bhasha Vishwa', an innovative AI project aimed at preserving and promoting the Marathi language. The project features two unique systems namely 'Marathi Tiny Stories' and 'Sant Sahitya AI' that marry the power of small language models (SLMs) with the richness of Marathi literature.

About the motivation behind the project, student Anish Joshi, said, "We realised that while there is a lot of focus on AI for global languages, regional languages like Marathi are often ignored. With this project, we wanted to ensu...