India needs to develop SLMs alongside LLMs to ensure linguistic inclusion: PSA

India needs to place special emphasis on developing small language models (SLMs) with multimodal capabilities, alongside indigenous large language models (LLMs), to ensure linguistic inclusion, affordability, energy efficiency, and public sector suitability, the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) has suggested.

- AASHISH ARYAN

The development of indigenous LLMs is crucial to build AI systems that are less biased, more trustworthy, and remain locally relevant in a globally competitive AI ecosystem, the white paper suggested.