Prof. Pratap

Academician and Activist of Free Software Movement. Free Knowledge and Better future society.

[Swecha Telangana | స్వేచ్ఛ తెలంగాణ @SwechaFSMI]

Excited to host Honourable IT Minister of Telangana
Sri D.SRIDHAR BABU /@OffDSB at #AIDAYS2025

Be inspired by his dynamic leadership in shaping Telangana’s digital future !

📍Hyderabad

🔗 https://t.co/tnSseVHn4X

#AIDAYS2025 #AI4Society #ResponsibleAI

[nutanc @nutanc]

If you have to learn how to fine tune LLMs for your use case, you have the best master teaching how at the conference. Either get a good rank and get an admission at IIIT-H and learn or just attend the conference and learn. There can't be a better deal :)

[Swecha Telangana | స్వేచ్ఛ తెలంగాణ @SwechaFSMI]

Excited to host
Honourable Jayesh Ranjan/@jayesh_ranjan
Chief Secretary @EmergingTechTS at #AIDAYS2025
Get inspired by his vision on public policy, digital transformation, and AI adoption in governance.

🔗 https://t.co/ZEi41dibz2

#AIDAYS2025 #AI4Society

[Prof. Pratap @prataplr]

I completely agree with this. Apart from Ai4bharat and WSAI, there is another initiative https://t.co/P6O2m14OzX
The efforts are volunteer driven data collection combined with the efforts of researchers and startups.
Preserving our culture-yes. @kiranychandra @nutanc

[kris gopalakrishnan @kris_sg]

We need to build our own foundation models. Culture, strategic autonomy etc. ⁦@itihaasa⁩ ⁦@iitmadras⁩

[kiranchandra @kiranychandra]

The #AIDays 2025 to be held on 15-16 Feb. Day1: #BurningMan kind of an event for AI. Select participants from 50 Eng Colleges to build things in #Art #Music #Education n more!
Day2: Conference
Prep Committee discussing the unfolding!
⁦@SwechaFSMI⁩ ⁦@SwechaAP⁩ ⁦

[kiranchandra @kiranychandra]

🚀 @SwechaFSMI #AIYatra – Building AI by & for the People! 🚀
1/8 The Swecha Telangana #AI Yatra is a vital step towards creating awareness and fostering an AI built in the true spirit of community collaboration. #AIYatra #ArtificialIntelligence @Mi@Min_SridharBabu @jayesh_ranjan @nutanc @nixxin

[kiranchandra @kiranychandra]

DevDays Hyderabad is evolving into a platform for the developers to think beyond their office-work and explore tech to solve problems in the society in the true spirit of By the Community for the Community! Kudos to all the efforts by the Devs of @SwechaFSMI

[kiranchandra @kiranychandra]

Proud to inform that @SwechaFSMI has signed an MoU with Telangana government to lead the Telangana Vaibhavam initiative in the presence of our Hon CM @TelanganaCMO & @Min_SridharBabu & Jayesh Ranjan. #AI4India #AIglobalsummit #Hyderabad

[nutanc @nutanc]

Sneak peak into what we are launching at the https://t.co/w4YW2KKAHD conference by @SwechaFSMI
This will revolutionize speech recognition for Indian languages.

[kiranchandra @kiranychandra]

తెలుగులో AI కి తోడ్పాటునిచ్చిన వారందరికీ నా వంతుగా ఫ్రీ కన్సర్ట్ చేస్తానని ప్రముఖ నేపథ్య గాయకులు Ram Miriyala ముందుకొచ్చారు. వరంగల్ లోని వాగ్దేవి కాలేజీ విద్యార్థులు తమ వంతుగా 2Lakh వాక్యాలను i.e. 200గంలు తమ గొంతుకను అందించారు. మొత్తం మూదింటిలో మొదటి కన్సర్ట్ ప్రారంభానికి వాగ్దేవి ఇంజనీరింగ్ కాలేజీలో సర్వం సన్నద్ధం! #నేను_సైతం_స్వేచ్ఛ_గొంతుకనవుతాను #NenuSaitamSwechaGontukanavuta

[nutanc @nutanc]

With Swecha's NLP efforts for Telugu LLM well under way with the Chandamama kathalu campaign, we are also planning a voice data collection for a Telugu ASR.
https://t.co/S3f1Sjd1Ij
If you can speak Telugu, please share your samples. As always, all of the data will be open sourced for everyone to use.

[Swecha Telangana | స్వేచ్ఛ తెలంగాణ @SwechaFSMI]

#TeluguAI: Read the detailed story behind our Chandamama Kathalu SLM covered by @ETtech

SLM aka Small Language Models, trained on limited datasets and few parameters, can revive the lost art of telling stories to children in their native language.

URL: https://t.co/tHdSLvraGb

[nutanc @nutanc]

This is a big vision we are planning. Make Telangana the AI capital.
Get all stakeholders involved, Startups, Government, It sector, MNCs, Academia and reduce skill gap and share knowledge. The best way to do this is with a conference. First step has started by meeting the IT principal secretary. And it's really a pleasent surprise that we are getting so much encouragement from the government. Stay tuned for more things soon.

[nutanc @nutanc]

The power of subsidies.
It creates great human beings.

[Praveen | ప్రవీణ్ 🍉 @saiicastic]

We have released the Chandamama Kathalu dataset today! It is available under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0. A milestone towards building Telugu LLM! Together let's make Telugu Al possible.

https://t.co/e56hTARGjW

https://t.co/glvGBb6BeI

#SwechaChandmamakathalu
@SwechaFSMI @huggingface

[nutanc @nutanc]

And the dataset is live.
https://t.co/a55VO0pwYI

Grouped by stories and year. Telugu stories. Available for everyone.
Thanks to @huggingface for providing the platform to distribute this.

[Ganesh Katrapati @neshkatrapati]

How do you build #AI4India ? It all starts with *accessibility* ! We, @SwechaFSMI are geared up to build the world's first Telugu LLM.

Join us in the largest Datathon today, and be a part of building Telugu AI.

Register here : https://t.co/7jtxm762ah
#SwechaChandamamaKathalu

[nutanc @nutanc]

Awesome to see Anurag university, CBIT, MRCET, GNITS and other college students joining in.
The purpose of this initiative is two fold.
1. Create a high quality open source dataset.
2. Use students to create it.
Once this is a success, we will have shown a way to create datasets.

[kiranchandra @kiranychandra]

Great and glad to have @nutanc to take the responsibility of leading the tech part of Chandamama Kathalu! @SwechaFSMI @SwechaAP @fsmi_in have been in the forefront of the efforts to democratise tech and make it accessible to commons!

[nutanc @nutanc]

30,000+ contributions for the Telugu LLM dataset. Wow! Didn't expect this kind of response.