Cropin unveils ankara AI model for farmers
It is designed to remove barriers to knowledge, and empower anyone in the agriculture ecosystem
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Bengaluru: Agritech company Cropin Technology on Tuesday launched the sector's first open-sourced micro-language model for climate-smart agriculture, targeting undeserved farmers in Global South.
The Google-backed Cropin launched 'akṣara' AI model which is designed to remove barriers to knowledge, and empower anyone in the agriculture ecosystem to build frugal and scalable AI solutions for the sector.
The first version of 'akṣara' will cover nine crops - paddy, wheat, maize, sorghum, barley, cotton, sugarcane, soybean, and millets for five countries in the Indian subcontinent.
Recognising the environmental impact of running large language models (LLMs), Cropin has meticulously compressed 'akṣara' into 4-bit from 16-bit.
"Domain-specific AI models for agriculture are expected to attract significant investments, offering a practical and economically viable approach to food systems transformation," said Krishna Kumar, Founder and CEO, Cropin. These models can potentially transform agriculture, paving the way for a new era of tech-driven farming in a sector that has traditionally seen limited technological advancement.
The 'akṣara' AI model was fine-tuned with more than 5,000 high-quality question-response pairs specific to agriculture and more than 160,000 tokens in the context. "These numbers are expected to increase as we add more crops, geographic locations and use cases," said the company.
