IIT Gandhinagar Channels Rivers Ganga, Yamuna into LLMs

IIT Gandhinagar recently released Ganga-1B, a pre-trained large language model (LLM) for Hindi as part of its Unity project. Built from scratch using the largest curated Hindi dataset, Ganga-1B outperforms all open-source LLMs supporting Hindi, up to 7B in size.  https://twitter.com/mayank_iitgn/status/1808450615208804750 The Unity project is building Indic LLMs and is looking to release the largest-ever curated datasets and SOTA models for other Indian languages. It’s a part of Lingo, the research group from IIT Gandhinagar, that engages in various activities, projects, and collaborations to advance the fields of natural language processing (NLP) and AI.  “We are neither a non-profit organisation nor a for-profit organisation. We are a small research group at IIT