EKA-1, Dhir 2B and Dhir 5B: India's indigenous foundation models under the IndiaAI Mission
Soket Labs' EKA-1 and ZenteiQ's Dhir 2B and Dhir 5B launched in New Delhi under the IndiaAI Mission, marking India's push for homegrown foundation models.
Why it matters
Sovereign foundation models built in India, launched with government backing, testing whether a national mission can produce competitive base models.
What you could build with it
An Indian startup building citizen services in local languages could fine-tune one of these homegrown models on government-service dialogues, keeping citizen data and model behavior inside national infrastructure.
Does it hold up?
Too early to judge: announced today with no public weights, benchmarks or demos verified at ingest time.
Built with EKA-1, Dhir 2B and Dhir 5B
- AI push: Soket Labs, ZenteiQ launch indigenous foundation modelsarticle · PTI report on the New Delhi launch of EKA-1, Dhir 2B and Dhir 5B under the IndiaAI Mission.
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