Swecha Telangana | స్వేచ్ఛ తెలంగాణ

We had collected thousands of hours of speech data, we needed to transcribe the speech to text. Teams were waiting for GPU credits etc. I was talking to the team at an internship meet where there were some 300 interns. I saw that each intern was carrying a laptop. There was compute sitting in front of us. I told the Viswam team why cant we use the compute of the laptops to transcribe the audio or convert pdfs to text using OCR. If we have 30,000 interns and each student contributes 1 hour of compute, we have 30,000 hours per day :) Viswam team created simple tools in a day to access the data and assign it based on compute donated and do the transcription. Below is the leaderboard till yesterday. Community FTW :)

While I have been busy with some things, the teams at Viswam have been rocking. The community driven effort is going full throttle. Data set contributions across the Telugu states so far. We will be making some announcements next week.

On #InternationalMotherLanguageDay Our Corpus App is now localised in Telugu our contribution to #Indic l10n project. Help build strong Telugu & Indic AI by contributing Text, Speech, Video & Image datasets. 🌐 corpus.swecha.org Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Following the roundtable on Understanding Trust & Safety in AI:From Code to Creativity,here is the draft release of the dataset license for public consultations addressing gaps in open-source licensing around data use,attribution&openness in the AI era. 🔗 discuss.sflc.in/d/SBNXHa9k/vis…

What a high. Finished the AI days 2025. Thanks to Tech Mahindra and @anandmahindra for providing an awesome venue at Hyderabad. Hyderabad is now the place for AI. 1500 participants, 4 closed door round tables, community Telugu LLM promised, society involved, mission accomplished.

Our Managing Director, Tarun Dua, delivered two impactful sessions at AI Days 2025, hosted by Viswam.AI—a joint initiative by IIIT Hyderabad and Swecha, ‘AI in India: The Bleeding Edge’ and ‘LLMs for India’. From India's AI revolution to localized language models, Tarun shared insights on how cloud-native solutions are accelerating AI adoption across the country. His sessions brought the perfect blend of vision, expertise, and disruptive thinking! Amazing to connect with 2,000+ developers, tech leaders, startups, and policymakers shaping India's AI future. The energy was electric! @tarundua81 | @SwechaFSMI

Spoke at #AIDays2025 round table on Community Sourcing for Low Resource Languages: Advocated easy interfaces for accessibility, clear guidelines for participation, student engagement in AI, crucial role of diverse, quality data in AI development.Emphasizing Data Importance

Bhavesh Misra IAS speaking at the #AIDays2025 A deep thinker touching on AI as a problem solver for the commons!

India LLMs round table begins its conversations! A white paper will be published as an outcome after the conference at #AIDAYS2025

Well thoughout AI User experience and Interaction perspective by @pacificleo Do watch the recording when it is out. #AIdays2025 @SwechaFSMI

Prasanth Sugathan, Legal Director at @SFLCin will be speaking at the #AIDays2025 conference in Hyderabad. He will participate in the roundtable discussion on 'IP, Copyrights and Policy in the Age of AI.' Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025 Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM IST Venue: Gate 03, Tech Mahindra, Madhapur, Hyderabad, Telangana. For more, visit: aidays.io @PrasanthTweets @SwechaFSMI

Honoured to be part of roundtable "Community Sourced Model to Build Al models for India" @SwechaFSMI #aidays2025 will be sharing learning about the @InstructLab LAB (Large-scale Alignment for chatBots) methodology, detailed in the research paper arXiv:2403.01081. This technique employs a novel synthetic data-based alignment tuning & Taxonomy-Driven Curation: Instead of relying on unstructured data contributions, InstructLab utilizes a hierarchical taxonomy to organize the knowledge and skills the model should possess. Shout out to @kiranychandra @SwechaFSMI @hasgeek @RedHat_AI @rhdevelopers

The 2nd edition of AIDays a two-day conference to be held on April 12 & 13 to be attended by 2,000 participants, include developers, architects, startups, tech leaders and policy makers. ⁦@SwechaFSMI⁩ ⁦@iiit_hyderabad⁩ ⁦@nutanc⁩ thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/visw…

Excited to host Honourable Bhavesh Mishra /@bhaveshmishra01 Deputy Secretary, @EmergingTechTS at #AIDAYS2025 Get inspired by his vision on public policy, digital transformation,and AI adoption in governance. 📍Hyderabad 🔗aidays.io #AIDAYS2025 #AI4SOCIETY

Looking forward to this. I have two key provocations for this discussion: - One is a true story I'm going to tell on AI and privacy (which will and should shock people), and - The other is a hypothesis I wrote a year and half ago about AI and the media that is (unfortunately) yet to be proven wrong.

We’re thrilled to welcome Ramakrishna Reddy , Senior Principal product manager @RedHat at #AIDays2025! Get ready for an exciting session on community-driven AI innovations and their real-world impact. 📍Hyderabad 🔗aidays.io #AIDays2025 #AI4Society

Excited to host Vishnu Ramesh / @VishnuR97 CEO , @subtlai at #AIDays2025! Get ready for a deep dive into AI research and how it’s shaping the future of search and Data. 📍Hyderabad 🔗aidays.io #AIDAYS2025 #AI4SOCIETY

We’re thrilled to have Jignesh Talasila /@jigneshtalasila Co-founder ,PerspectAI at #AIDays2025! Discover his insights on AI-powered enterprise solutions and customer experience. 📍Hyderabad 🔗aidays.io #AIDAYS2025 #AI4SOCIETY

We are thrilled to have Dr.Dinesh Chandrashekar , Chief strategy officer,CENTIFIC AI at #AIDays2025! He will shed light on how AI is shaping global businesses and enhancing digital transformation strategies. 📍Hyderabad 🔗aidays.io #AIDAYS2025 #AI4SOCIETY

We’re proud to have Nageshwar Rao, Sub Editor @Eenadu_Newspapr at #AIDays2025! Discover the impact of AI on media and news reporting in the digital age. 📍 Hyderabad 🔗aidays.io #AIDays2025 #AI4Society #ResponsibleAI