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NVIDIA and IIT Madras announce 2.8 trillion-token Indic language corpus

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Source: Hugging Face

NVIDIA and IIT Madras’s AI4Bharat lab announced Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, a corpus of approximately 2.8 trillion tokens across the 22 languages listed in India’s Constitution, with release due soon. It has native-script data for all 22 languages and romanized data for twelve. An open GPU-accelerated pipeline for translation, quality assessment and repair, built with NeMo Data Designer, will be released alongside it.

Why it matters

Model builders get a substantial new resource for Indic pretraining. The 22 languages are the first languages of 97% of Indians, and the open pipeline lets developers generate more data from their own source documents.

When
16 Oct 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0306
Where
India
Who
NVIDIA, IIT Madras, AI4Bharat, Bodhan AI; Mitesh Khapra

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Hugging Face. Checked against the source on 16 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2026-0306: “NVIDIA and IIT Madras announce 2.8 trillion-token Indic language corpus.” wheresthe.ai, 16 Oct 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/in-nvidia-and-iit-madras-announce-2-8-trillion-token-indic-l-2026-10/ (source: Hugging Face).

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