3 Things India's AI dream, capping movie tickets, and stranded NASA astronauts to return home
Mar 17, 2025
In this engaging discussion, Vidhathri Rao, a tech reporter at The Indian Express, shares insights into India's ambitious plans for AI, including the creation of a Telugu Large Language Model, highlighting the importance of linguistic diversity in tech. Sanath Prasad, an expert on the Kannada film industry, analyzes the implications of the Karnataka government's cap on movie ticket prices at Rs 200, detailing the conflicting reactions from filmmakers and multiplexes. The podcast also touches on the successful return of NASA astronauts after their SpaceX mission.
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India's AI Quest
- India is developing its own foundational AI model due to China's DeepSeek breakthrough.
- This model aims to address cost and resource efficiency in AI development.
Indian LLM Considerations
- Indian LLMs must consider cultural nuances, dialects, and regional variations.
- This is crucial to capture the depth and subtleties of Indian languages.
Swecha's Telugu LLM Project
- Swecha created the first Telugu operating system in 2005.
- Now, they are collecting diverse speech data to build a Telugu LLM.