Tech Mahindra CEO and MD Mohit Joshi said that the IT services major is currently developing an indigenous sovereign large language model (LLM) with 1 trillion parameters as a part of IndiaAI Mission.
Tech Mahindra along with seven other entities including Fractal Analytics, and BharatGen - an IIT Bombay Consortium, were picked by the Government of India in September to build foundational LLMs under IndiaAI Mission.
Not just Tech Mahindra, even the LLM proposed to be developed by IIT Bombay is expected to have 1 trillion parameters.
In LLM parlance, 'parameters' refer to number of learned internal variables — or biases — that capture patterns and relationships in language from training data.
Speaking at Tech Mahindra’s earnings conference for the second quarter ended September, Josh