Tech Mahindra expands Project Indus with education-focused hindi LLM built on NVIDIA AI infrastructure

Tech Mahindra has announced the launch of an education-focused large language model (LLM) under Project Indus, developed in collaboration with NVIDIA. The Hindi-first model aims to support sovereign AI development while expanding access to AI-driven learning experiences tailored to India’s linguistic and cultural context.

The new model is positioned as an education-centric platform designed to democratise access to foundational learning across subjects such as physics and other academic disciplines. According to the company, the LLM is intended to support scalable educational use cases while addressing the diversity of Indian languages and learning environments.

Built using NVIDIA AI infrastructure, the model leverages the NVIDIA NeMo framework and NVIDIA NIM microservices to enable performance, scalability and deployment readiness. To address language data limitations, Tech Mahindra said it generated synthetic training data using NVIDIA NeMo Data Designer, producing hundreds of millions of tokens to strengthen the model’s linguistic ...