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IT firms eye Soket’s artificial intelligence model
Financial Express Pune
|March 09, 2026
“NOW WE ARE building a 120-billion parameter model which will support all Indic languages, including the 22 scheduled languages.”
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The company intends the model to serve as a base platform for applications built in India and across emerging markets. Upperwal said Soket AI is also open-sourcing parts of its datasets to encourage wider development.
A key use case the startup is targeting is coding, particularly for the domestic large IT services industry. According to Upperwal, several firms are exploring domestic AI models as an alternative to global offerings.
This story is from the March 09, 2026 edition of Financial Express Pune.
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