What is NANDA, a new Hindi language AI model developed by Microsoft-backed G42?

G42, an AI firm based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has unveiled a new large language model (LLM) called NANDA that will specifically cater to Hindi-speaking users.

NANDA will have a parameter count of 13 billion, and has been trained on approximately 2.13 trillion tokens of language datasets, including Hindi. The startup introduced the Hindi AI model at the India-UAE business forum in Mumbai during Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khaled bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s recent State visit to India.