Overview
Tech Mahindra has been selected by the Indian government as one of the 12 key players under the IndiaAI Mission to build India’s foundation models. Our 8-billion-parameter sovereign education LLM will be operational at the IndiaAI Impact Summit.
Role in the IndiaAI Mission
We are committed to play a pivotal role in supporting the IndiaAI Mission by developing a large-scale, India-first foundational language model designed to serve the country’s diverse linguistic and digital needs.
Our 8-billion-parameter foundational education LLM is tailored for Indian languages and dialects, enabling meaningful, inclusive AI adoption across the nation. This model is being designed for real-world use across classrooms, communities, and more.
This education centric LLM is driven by the need to democratize learning and address systemic challenges in access and language diversity. This aims to deliver a lower total cost of ownership, making AI adoption more feasible for schools and institutions.
Through this effort, Tech Mahindra supports key strategic objectives:
- Strengthening sovereign AI capabilities for India
- Accelerating the vision of Digital India
- Enabling innovation for startups and SMEs by providing accessible AI foundations
People. Planet. Progress
The three foundation pillars for the IndiaAI Impact summit
People
Our focus is on building AI systems that address real societal needs by prioritizing accessibility, linguistic diversity, and inclusion across India’s varied communities.
Planet
We are committed to responsible AI development, combining efficient model design with domain‑specific intelligence to support sustainability‑related use cases, especially in areas such as agriculture and climate awareness.
Progress
By focusing on practical deployment and cost‑conscious AI architectures, our aims is to support the transition from experimentation to real‑world adoption, contributing to sovereign AI capabilities and broader ecosystem innovation.
Solution Highlight
Project Indus
An Indian LLM Built from Scratch getting transformed into an Education LLM for India
Project Indus is Tech Mahindra’s sovereign, Indic-first LLM built by its Research Hub Makers Lab to converse in Hindi and 37+ dialects. This model is now getting designed for real-world use across classrooms, communities, and more. To be up and running as an 8 billion parameter educational LLM at the IndiaAI Impact Summit.
Project Indus follows a “less is more” approach, emphasizing:
- Rigorous data cleaning
- Detection and removal of 10 different types of bias
- Higher quality outputs through better datasets rather than sheer scale
Why an Educational LLM?
The focus on an education-centric LLM is driven by the need to democratize learning and address systemic challenges in access and language diversity.
Aimed to deliver a lower total cost of ownership, making AI adoption more feasible for schools and institutions.
Why an 8-Billion-Parameter Model?
Choosing an 8-billion-parameter architecture is a deliberate design decision focused on efficiency and real-world deployment.
With a balance of performance, cost, and deployability, the 8B model is well-suited to India’s educational and linguistic ecosystem.
Agenda
Focusing on Education, Agriculture, Manufacturing and More
Meet Our Leaders
Chief Technology Officer, Tech Mahindra
Chief Innovation Officer & Global Head – AI, Tech Mahindra
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