I did a search for Indian AI LLMs.<p>Found articles containing with headlines containing phrases like: "10 Indian LLMs"<p>In such articles, almost every link to an Indian LLM was either a 404, or a landing page with a lot of claims but nothing that could be tried out, nothing open source, no github.<p>I researched press releases. The loudest claims of breakthrough progress were from an entity called "MahindraTech". When I went to their website, there was a message on there saying it was not accessible from outside India (I was trying to access it from outside India).<p>This reminds me of something from before the April 2024 Indian general elections. There was a huge hooplah about how Modi's speeches were going to be simultaneously translated into multiple Indian languages in real-time using AI. I was very excited about it. Nothing ever came of it.<p>Right now, if you look into the AI scene, there are startups that are excited about offering Indian-hosted DeepSeek. There are media articles lauding how DeepSeek (China's DeepSeek!) is being used as a pre-trained model to do fine-tuning on. I even saw a government minister talking about how DeepSeek would be hosted on cheap government owned infrastructure for Indian startups. They seem to have given up on pre-training an LLM.<p>The only serious thing I came across was a quote by Narayan Murthy (founder of InfoSys) saying that Indian AI entrepreneurs should come clean and admit that there isn't enough data to train AIs for Indian language translation.<p>The rest was just hype and vapor.<p>It's really quite pathetic.<p>(Note: I haven't posted links because HN rules don't allow that in a post)