The open-source multilingual foundation model, known as “Pragna-1B,” was released on Wednesday by the Indian artificial intelligence (AI) research company Soket AI Labs in association with Google Cloud services.
In addition to English, Bengali, Gujarati, and Hindi, the model will offer AI services in other Indian vernacular languages.
“A key factor in the Pragna-1B model’s pre-training was our collaboration with Google Cloud. Our development of Pragna-1B was both efficient and economical thanks to the utilization of Google Cloud’s AI Infrastructure. Asserting comparable performance and efficacy in language processing tasks to similar category models, Pragna-1B demonstrates unmatched inventiveness and efficiency despite having been trained on fewer parameters, according to Soket AI Labs founder Abhishek Upperwal.”
Pragna-1B, he continued, “is specifically designed for vernacular languages. It provides balanced language representation and facilitates faster and more efficient tokenization, making it ideal for organizations looking to optimize operations and enhance functionality.”
By adding Soket’s AI developer platform to the Google Cloud Marketplace and the Pragna model series to the Google Vertex AI model repository, Soket AI Labs and Google Cloud will shortly expand their partnership even further.
Developers will have a strong, efficient experience fine-tuning models thanks to this connection. According to the business, the combination of Vertex AI and TPUs’ high-performance resources with Soket’s AI Developer Platform’s user-friendly interface would provide the best possible efficiency and scalability for AI projects.
According to the firm, this partnership would also make it possible for technical teams to collaborate on the fundamental tasks involved in creating high-quality datasets and training massive models for Indian languages.
“Our collaboration with Soket AI Labs to democratize AI innovation in India makes us very happy.” Pragna-1B, which was developed on Google Cloud, represents a groundbreaking advancement in Indian language technology and provides businesses with improved scalability and efficiency, according to Bikram Singh Bedi, Vice President and Country Managing Director, Google Cloud India.
Since its founding in 2019, Soket has changed its focus from being a decentralized data exchange for smart cities to an artificial intelligence research company.