India, Feb. 20 -- IT services major Tech Mahindra has announced the launch of a new Hindi-first LLM focused on education developed in collaboration with NVIDIA as part of its "Project Indus" initiative.

The new model aims to promote democratisation in the education sector by providing a foundational understanding of complex subjects like physics in natural Hindi. It also supports the development of autonomous AI agents that can speak and respond in fluent Hindi.

While the first version of Project Indus featured 1.2 Bn parameters, the new education-focused model uses a more advanced architecture with 8 Bn parameters. The use of NVIDIA's advanced AI frameworks and infrastructure support, such as the NeMo framework and NVIDIA NIM microserv...