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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Microsoft (NASDAQ:) will help the event of voice-based generative synthetic intelligence (AI) purposes by a partnership with Indian startup Sarvam AI, the Home windows-maker mentioned on Thursday.
Sarvam AI is constructing genAI fashions concentrating on Indic languages and context, it mentioned in a press release, however didn’t instantly present monetary particulars of the partnership.
The startup – whose founders earlier developed AI fashions at Indian Institute of Expertise, Madras-based analysis group AI4Bharat – has raised funding from Lightspeed Enterprise Companions, Peak XV Companions and Khosla Ventures.
By the partnership, Sarvam will make its Indic voice LLMs obtainable on Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure.