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Thursday, 2 July 2026

India is testing an alternative to Silicon Valley’s AI playbook

Rest of World 2 months ago 15

India launched a government-backed hackathon partnering Bhashini, Current AI, and Kalpa Impact to develop affordable, multilingual AI tools that run offline using open-source models for use in schools, farms, and villages with limited connectivity. Organizers will select 20 teams to receive hardware kits and mentorship, with winning solutions to be deployed in government departments. The initiative reflects a shift toward viewing AI as public infrastructure rather than proprietary products, though experts question whether hackathon prototypes can scale without sustained funding, engineering talent, and clear business models.

Modular LLMs at scale: how FlexOlmo is helping to pool national expertise without pooling sensitive data

Allen Institute (AI2) 2 months ago 6

Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark built FlexMoRE, a modular language model that allows separate institutions to train specialized components independently without sharing sensitive data. FlexMoRE reduces memory demands to less than one-third of the original FlexOlmo model while maintaining performance by using smaller low-rank adapters instead of full-size experts. This enables distributed model training for lower-resource languages like Danish while preserving privacy, allowing organizations with restricted data to contribute expertise to shared models.

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