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MUMBAI: Abu Dhabi-based 3AI Holding Limited, a global AI investment firm that invests in AI infrastructure and AI foundational companies, on April 4 announced a strategic partnership with Seetha Mahalaxmi Healthcare (SML) to jointly own ‘Hanooman’, India’s largest multilingual generative artificial intelligence platform.
SML introduced Hanooman in February this year at Nasscom’s NTLF Techade Conference. 3AI Holding’s homegrown proprietary patent, pending Omega generative AI, will make ‘Hanooman’, bigger and more powerful, said the company. It is set to be launched on May 1.
With the newly-formed strategic partnership between 3AI Holding and SML, Hanooman aims to reach 200 million users in 22 Indian languages within the first year from the day of its launch.
Empowering everyone
India’s 142 crore population is 80 per cent non-English speaking. Hanooman will empower everyone and will be within the reach of masses by coming up with local languages. It will be jointly owned by both parties, each holding a 50 per cent share. With this joint venture, Hanooman will offer its multimodal and multilingual capabilities, including text, voice, image and code to its users.
Through this joint collaboration, Hanooman, a foundational model built in India for India, will create a generative AI ecosystem for the world, enabling budding generative AI platforms to build their applications. It will also be offering the platform to startups and incubate them along with the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) to ensure that generative AI space thrives and India gets the required boost to lead this space.
With its multilingual capabilities and collaboration with Nasscom, Hanooman aims to benefit both end-users and corporations.
SML India and 3AI Holding believe in the fundamental mission of ‘AI for All’, and the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the two companies is a testimony to this commitment by democratising the generative AI space for the Indian masses, under the brand name of ‘Hanooman’.
The development comes at a time when global generative AI companies are eyeing India, making it one of the critical markets for the development and consumption of AI products. Speaking on the collaboration, Arjun Prasad, Managing Director, 3AI Holding, said, “We are committed to pushing the boundaries of AI innovation to enhance human wellbeing and societal development. The partnership with SML to power Hanooman, is a step towards our shared vision to provide equitable AI access to the Indian masses.
He further said, “We are focusing on catering to a diverse range of users through our advanced multilingual text capabilities. This collaboration is aligned with our vision of bridging the gap between India and Bharat. We are driven towards making AI inclusive and accessible to everyone in a language of their choice, reaching the remotest corners of the country.”
More advanced avatar
Dr. Vishnu Vardhan, Co-Founder & CEO, SML India, said, “We are excited to partner with 3AI Holding to introduce a more advanced avatar of ‘Hanooman,’ which will revolutionise how Indians interact with technology. With this strategic partnership, we aim to reach 200 million users in 22 Indian languages within 12 months. 3AI Holding’s proprietary, patent-pending Omega generative AI will further help us expand our reach to the masses in a way that has never been possible before.”
This, he said, “will make India a pioneer in the adoption and usage of AI, benefiting a vast majority of people in our country. This collaboration underscores our commitment to India by delivering advanced AI solutions for the Indian masses with application across industries like healthcare, legal services, and education, among others.”
3AI’s core focus is to build reliable platforms for masses
LED by Arjun Prasad, 3AI Holding Limited is developing the next advanced version of Omega with 665 billion parameters and 20 trillion tokens that will compete with global generative AI platforms. 3AI is backed by Patel Family Office, a third-generation family office from the US. It recently launched Ask QX, a generative AI platform available in 100+ global languages and 12 Indian languages with 372 billion parameters, garnering over 14 million users in the first 2 months of launch.
3AI Holding’s primary mission is to invest in and create advanced AI systems, with a core focus on building platforms that are reliable and built for the masses.
SML a pioneer in multilingual LLMS
SML is India’s pioneer and one of the first globally to develop multilingual LLMS. Its groundbreaking work includes building India’s first full-stack, enterprise-ready Gen AI models, setting a new benchmark in the Gen AI industry.
SML India is in the process of building a series of large language models (LLMs) that can respond in 11 Indian languages, with plans to expand to more than 20 languages.
MIT alumnus Dr. Vishnu Vardhan, Co-Founder & CEO of SML India, has many research projects and collaborations with IITB, MIT, OSU, UIUC and other eminent academic institutes of India and across the world.
