India AI and Meta India MoU

Context:  Recently, ‘India AI,’ and Meta India signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote collaboration in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies. MoU Between ‘India AI’ and Meta India:

• Objective: To foster collaboration and cooperation between ‘India AI’ and Meta India in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies.
• Sharing of Open-Source AI Models: Meta India will make its open-source AI models, including LlaMA, Massively Multilingual Speech, and No Language Left Behind, available for use by the Indian AI ecosystem.
• Centre of Excellence for AI and Emerging Technologies: The organizations may consider establishing a Centre of Excellence to nurture the start-up ecosystem and promote innovation in AI and other emerging technologies.
• Building Datasets in Indian Languages: It aims to enable translation and large language models, with a priority on low-resource languages.
• Enhancing AI Compute Resources: The collaboration aims to enhance accessibility to AI compute resources for researchers, start-ups, and organizations with limited resources.
• Knowledge Sharing and Skill Development: The MoU will facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration in AI and emerging technologies through workshops, seminars, conferences, and similar platforms.

Significance:

• Foster social inclusion and improve government service delivery through AI-driven innovation.
• Spur innovation using large language models, Generative AI, cognitive systems, and translation models.
• Strengthen India’s digital leadership and ensure AI tools are tailored to India’s unique needs.
• Boost AI talent development, contributing to the growth of AI expertise in India.

Additional Information: About INDIA AI: INDIA AI is a knowledge portal, research organization and an ecosystem building initiative, which was launched on 28th May 2020. It stands to unite and promote collaborations with various entities in India’s AI ecosystem It is a joint venture by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).

 News Source: PIB