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Bhashini, the National Language Translation Mission, aimed at nurturing Indian language technologies and solutions as a public good, was launched in July 2022..
Launched a year ago, the Nilekani Center at AI4Bhrat has set up a team of close to 200 translators across the country covering 22 Indian languages..
Tech billionaire philanthropist Nandan Nilekani is the primary sponsor of the Nilekani Center at AI4Bharat with a focus on developing open-source language tech as a public good...
When Microsoft chief Satya Nadella visited India in January this year, a unique app caught his attention.Jugalbandi, a chatbot which leverages language models from AI4Bharat along with reasoning models from Microsofts Azure OpenAI can be used to get information on 170 government schemes in local languages..
The chatbot, which combines speech recognition, translation, text-to-speech, and large language models, has been created to allow people..
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