Soket AI’s Plan to Build 7 Bn Open Source Indic LLM Within 6 months
12/06/2025
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Abhishek Upperwal said that the team can scale the small model to 120 billion within 10 months.
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Abhishek Upperwal said that the team can scale the small model to 120 billion within 10 months.
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