1. The first version of 'Hanooman', a series of open-source Indic language AI models, is scheduled to be launched in late March.
2. Hanooman is a series of large language models (LLMs) capable of generating both text and speech in 11 Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam, and Marathi.
3. Hanooman has multimodal AI capabilities for generating text-to-text, text-to-speech, text-to-video and vice versa content.
4. Hanooman has been designed to work in four fields, including health care, governance, financial services, and education.
5. The AI models of 'Hanooman', India's own ChatGPT-styled AI, range in size from 1.5 billion to a whopping 40 billion parameters.
6. 'Hanooman' is a project by the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, developed in partnership with Seetha Mahalakshmi Healthcare (SML).
7. IIT-B has also engaged with Reliance Jio and premier Indian engineering institutions for the BharatGPT group to launch the ChatGPT-style AI model 'Hanooman'.