Google DeepMind's Morni Project and AI Innovations in India
| Aspect | Details |
|---|---|
| Project Morni | - Spearheaded by Google DeepMind India. |
| - Aims to encompass 125 Indic languages and dialects. | |
| - 73 of these languages currently lack a digital corpus. | |
| - Hindi, spoken by nearly 10% of the global population, has only 0.1% online text representation. | |
| Project Vaani | - Collaboration between Google, Indian Institute of Science, and ARTPARK. |
| - First phase completed: 14,000 hours of speech data from 58 languages, 80,000 speakers. | |
| - Second phase aims to collect 154,000 hours of anonymized speech data from all Indian districts. | |
| Google Translate | - Added 110 new languages, including 5 Indian languages. |
| - Now supports over 1,500 global languages, reaching 600 million people. | |
| - Expansion facilitated by the PaLM-2 transformer model. | |
| Digital Agri-Stack | - Initiative by Google to modernize agricultural practices. |
| - Aims to facilitate loans, provide affordable crop insurance, and improve subsidy programs. | |
| - Focuses on data-driven agricultural management and supporting government programs. |