AI4Bhārat Launch at IIT Madras 28th July 2022AI4Bhārat Launch at IIT Madras 28th July 2022 !
We are launching!
Nilekani Center at AI4Bharat is launching on 28th July 2022 at IIT Madras. Co-located with the launch will be the first AI4Bharat Workshop on Indian Language AI.
Our Mission
Bring parity with respect to English in AI technologies for Indian languages with open-source contributions in datasets, models, and applications and by enabling an innovation ecosystem”
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Our Impact Axes
Data
- Curate and create the largest public datasets and benchmarks across various tasks and 22 Indian languages.
AI Models
- Build state-of-the-art, open, foundational AI models across tasks and 22 Indian languages.
Applications
- Design and deploy with partners reference applications to demonstrate potential of open AI models.
Ecosystem
- Enable researchers, startups, and govt. to innovate on Indian language AI tech with educational material and workshops.
Areas
Open-source datasets (Samanantar) and models (IndicTrans) for neural machine translation between English and 12 Indic languages.
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Open-source datasets and benchmarks (Aksharantar), models (IndicXlit), and applications for transliteration between Roman and scripts for 20+ Indic languages.
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Open-source models (IndicWav2Vec) for speech recognition in 9 Indian languages.
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Open-source language models (IndicBERT), benchmarks (IndicGLUE), and entity recognizers (IndicNER) for 10 Indian languages.
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Open-source language generation model (IndicBART) and benchmarks (IndicNLG Suite) for 10 Indian languages.
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Open-source datasets (INCLUDE, SignCorpus) and models (OpenHands) for sign recognition for various 10 sign languages from around the world.
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Open-source workbench for AI-assisted language work on Indian languages with initial focus on translation.
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Open-source tool for AI-assisted video subtitling and translating with a focus on educational and media content.
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Our Sponsors
As the primary sponsor, Nandan Nilekani has generously contributed to the formation of the AI4Bharat center with a focus on open-source language tech as a public good. The team at EkStep Foundation also closely collaborates and mentors the center.
AI4Bharat is the official Data Management Unit (DMU) of the Digital India Bhasini project. As part of the DMU, AI4Bharat is collecting datasets across India’s 22 scheduled languages.
Microsoft’s Research Lab and India Development Center (IDC) have supported AI4Bharat with unrestricted research grants and time for researchers to contribute towards open-source technologies.
CDAC has provided generous access to super-computing resources for training large AI models and hosting large amounts of data
Our Team
Chief mentor and evangelist, EkStep Foundation
Associate Professor at CSE Department, IIT Madras
Researcher at Microsoft Research and Adjunct Faculty at IIT Madras
Researcher at Microsoft
Positions
AI4Bharat Residency
1-year program for recent graduates to work on cutting-edge research problems in NLP, Speech, and systems-engineering for AI.
AI4Bharat Internship
1-semester program for current students to work on data and software engineering for language AI technologies
Language Contributor
Long-term opportunities for experienced language translators and transcribers across Indian languages.
Software Developer
Long-term opportunities for front-end and back-end developers looking to contribute to building open-source applications for language technologies.
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- Vikram Sarabhai