GenAI Large Language Models Need To go Local: Tech Entrepreneurs By CIOTechOutlook Team

GenAI Large Language Models Need To go Local: Tech Entrepreneurs

CIOTechOutlook Team | Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 08:45 IST

Indian entrepreneurs emphasized the necessity of constructing large language models (LLMs) for generative artificial intelligence (AI) based on local datasets, saying that the country must utilize the huge volumes of data provided by companies and government entities to train these models.

Additionally, they also emphasised on accessing these datasets to train AI models in Indian languages that do not have much material published on the internet

“I fundamentally believe that India should have been paying a lot more attention to AI than we have till today. It is more up to the entrepreneurs… and I would say AI … for Indians … will be more important because we lack the resources available for citizen services like education, health, financial services,” said Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and CEO, Paytm.

He spoke at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit in New Delhi.

“Unlike a social network or internet search engine, where a western solution can help because it is based on fundamental technologies, here (with AI) there is an obligation for expertise of India, or a model that is trained in India or from data points, whether they are citizen data points or historical data points. It is even more important for us all that we take care of building LLMs or models trained on open source LLMs…and that we don’t miss the AI wave on the scale that we’re seeing,” Sharma added.

Similarly, Aakrit Vaish, cofounder and CEO of Reliance Jio-backed conversational AI firm Haptik, stated that AI might usher in a paradigm shift in industries such as education, healthcare, and finance.

“The challenge in those parts of the economy has been accessibility…and ease of use and functionality. AI democratises all of that,” he said.