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Models · Updated 16 Oct, 07:14 am IST

New 2.8T‑token Indic pretraining set and open GPU pipeline announced

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Why it matters for readers: It gives anyone interested in Indian languages a documented way to create and inspect the data behind large language models for those languages.

  • The release is Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, approximately 2.8 trillion tokens covering 22 Indian languages, as described in the announcement.1
  • The open GPU‑accelerated pipeline used to generate the data will be released and includes prompts, LLM workflows and quality assessment/repair steps.1
  • The project is a collaboration between NVIDIA, IIT Madras and AI4Bharat and builds on prior open resources for Indic language research.1
  • The 22 languages correspond to those listed in India’s Constitution and are described as first languages for about 97% of Indians per the 2011 Census.1

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