ETtech Explainer: Meet AI ‘Saba’ trained on Arabic, Tamil, Malayalam

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Indic AI models have got global competition. French startup Mistral AI, on Monday, launched Mistral Saba, its first small language model (24 billion parameters) trained in foreign languages — Arabic, Tamil and Malayalam.

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This comes on the back of Mistral's new chatbot 'Le Chat' gaining popularity in India. Le Chat has secured 100,000 downloads, but substantially lower than DeepSeek which saw 10 million app installs.

The growing impetus among global AI companies to build multilingual models creates competition for smaller and less-capitalised startups in India. However, capturing regional nuance and diversity would be a challenge for global players to capture mindshare. ET explains:

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