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  • 1 month ago | channelnewsasia.com | Ishan Garg

    NEW DELHI: India is building its own large language model it hopes one day may rival OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT, but the country’s countless languages and dialects have made training it a challenge. India has 22 officially recognised languages and more than 10,000 local languages. Some languages like Marathi share common roots with others such as Hindi and Gujarati, while others spoken in South India - such as Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam - are completely different.

  • 1 month ago | channelnewsasia.com | Ishan Garg

    ROHTAK, India: Farmers in India’s rice and wheat belt state of Haryana are worried that imports from the United States will flood the market if agricultural duties are lowered as a result of bilateral trade negotiations. Washington is pushing to export US dairy and grain products to India, as part of efforts to balance its US$45 billion trade deficit with New Delhi.

  • 2 months ago | channelnewsasia.com | Ishan Garg

    India and 10 African countries are staging their first joint naval drills off the coast of Tanzania. The Africa India Key Maritime Engagement drills are aimed at countering threats like piracy and illegal fishing, but are also seen as part of India's efforts to check China's rising influence in the region. Ishan Garg reports from New Delhi.

  • 2 months ago | channelnewsasia.com | Ishan Garg |Kevin Lam

    NEW DELHI: A deadly border standoff between Indian and Chinese soldiers in June 2020 led to India restricting imports and imposing a blanket ban on Chinese investments. It also implemented stricter customs checks and anti-dumping measures, allowing only essential items to be imported. Naresh Gupta, who runs modular furniture manufacturer Aostaf Group, said he can now only bring in furniture parts which cannot be made locally.

  • 2 months ago | channelnewsasia.com | Ishan Garg

    India's central bank has cut interest rates for the second consecutive time, amid concerns that US tariffs could threaten growth. The key lending rate has been slashed from 6.25% to 6%. Although India remains the world's fastest-growing major economy, the Reserve Bank of India has revised its GDP growth forecast to 6.5% for the current financial year.

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Ishan Garg
Ishan Garg @IshanGarg93
26 May 25

India is awaiting its own ChatGPT moment. But unlike other countries developing LLMs that have to deal wd a handful of languages - India has to deal wd thousands. How does it do that. We find out for @ChannelNewsAsia. Ft @BharatGen_Com and @WadhwaniAI https://t.co/Q624QoGAPF

Ishan Garg
Ishan Garg @IshanGarg93
7 May 25

RT @LBCNews: News as it happens with @SimonConway: ➡️'Dozens dead' as India launches strikes on Pakistan: @IshanGarg93 ➡️Children being…

Ishan Garg
Ishan Garg @IshanGarg93
7 May 25

RT @Sophie_Mokoena: INTNEWS: The election of a new Pope @trent_murray at the Vatican City in Rome Italy. Tension between India and Pakistan…