India · 5 November 2026
Available nowIndiaAI Mission Unveils Three Indigenous Models Including Soket's 26.3B EKA-1
The IndiaAI Mission released three foundation models—EKA-1 (26.3 billion parameters, trained on ~7.5 trillion tokens, supporting all 22 scheduled Indian languages and English) and ZenteiQ’s Dh r 2B and Dh r 5B multilingual assistants designed for on‑premise, offline use in government, defence, industrial and education sectors. The launch was held in New Delhi on November 3 with MeitY officials present.
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