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Breakthrough AI Model Can See and Speak in 22 Indian Languages, Making Technology More Accessible to Billions

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Overview

  • Introduces Chitrarth, a multilingual vision-language model supporting 22 Indian languages
  • First large-scale vision-language model focused on Indian languages
  • Demonstrates strong performance across multiple vision-language tasks
  • Built using image-text pairs in Indian languages and English
  • Shows capabilities in zero-shot generalization and cross-lingual transfer

Plain English Explanation

Chitrarth represents a breakthrough in making AI systems understand both images and text in Indian languages. Think of it as a digital translator that can look at pictures and discuss them in languages like Hindi, Bengali, or Tamil, not just English.

The system learns from mil...

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