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Sarvam’s Indus, a multilingual AI chatbot built on a 105-billion-parameter Indian large language model. Available on app stores and web, it supports voice interaction, language switching, document ...

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Some doctors regularly see patients who have consulted an A.I. model for a first opinion. Surveys have found that about one ...