Sambit Sekhar

Building end to end machine learning products.

[Shantipriya parida @Shantipriyapar3]

Thanks to @silogenai (@AMDSiloAI) & Aku Rouhe for releasing Qwen1.5 7B Odia Instruct — advancing LLMs for the Odia language!

Trained on Odia data + fine-tuned with 5 Odia instruct sets released by @OdiaGenAI & 1 English set.

👉 Model: https://t.co/avMTTMMNks

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

🧠 GenAI Quiz: Test Your Knowledge & Win!
📅 Date: 3rd–5th July 2025
📍 Location: Bhubaneswar, India (Hybrid Mode)
🌐https://t.co/BSjb9x9r8Z

🚀 Get ready to challenge your brain and showcase your expertise at the GenAI Quiz, part of the Three-Day GenAI Workshop

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

💻 GenAI Hackathon: Build the Future with Generative AI!
📅 Date: 3rd–5th July 2025
📍 Location: Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India (Hybrid Mode)

🌐 Workshop Page: https://t.co/BSjb9x9r8Z
📝 Register here: (to be announced)

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

🚀 GenAI Pitch Session: Share Your Big Idea in 5 Minutes!
📅 Date: 3rd–5th July 2025
📍 Location: Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India (Hybrid Mode)

🌐 Workshop Page: https://t.co/BSjb9x9r8Z
📝 Register here: https://t.co/lmNo7ZdDMj

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

We are excited to unveil the speaker lineup for the upcoming three-day Generative AI Workshop, jointly organized by @OdiaGenAI , AHRC @iitbbs , and the SCA, KIIT - @KIITUniversity

Workshop page: https://t.co/BSjb9x9r8Z
Registration:https://t.co/UqYn2IlTJf

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Amit Sheth will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming three-day Generative AI Workshop, jointly organized by @OdiaGenAI, the AI & HPC Research Center (AHRC) at @iitbbs , and the School of Computer Application at @KIITUniversity.

[Sambit Sekhar @sambit_ai]

@YuvrajS9886 https://t.co/XaqYTWR5QA

[Shantipriya parida @Shantipriyapar3]

🌟 Glad to share our @indo_nlp workshop #coling2025 paper: OVQA: A Dataset for Visual Question Answering and Multimodal Research in Odia Language

�� Paper: https://t.co/mEP35krvCI
🤖 HF Dataset:https://t.co/TLP5G3D1Kx

🎉 Congratulations to all the authors!
@sambit_ai

[Shantipriya parida @Shantipriyapar3]

Excited to share that our open-source initiative @OdiaGenAI by our team @sambit_ai @swateekj @soumendrak_ @Babunisatya has been featured by @timesofindia & @timestechies! 🎉

Check out the article: https://t.co/b6qEEra5o1

Thank you, @timestechies, for the coverage!

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

We're excited to share our innovative project addressing the critical challenge of deploying deep learning models in resource-constrained environments. 🌟

For more details, check the project page: https://t.co/mVxw56Q8N5

[Sambit Sekhar @sambit_ai]

@teknium @A_K_Nain @TuliMathieu https://t.co/Ydb8zaBGfS

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

We are delighted to welcome our new researchers to the OdiaTreeBank Project – Odia Bhasa Bruksha (ଓଡିଆ ଭାଷା ବୃକ୍ଷ)

✨ Sourav Kumar Behera
✨ Srustiprava Satapathy
✨ Nirmal Naik
✨ Shashikanta Sahoo

Website: https://t.co/E7KbhAK1NF

[Sambit Sekhar @sambit_ai]

@maharshii graph of neurons, beam searching across for ryt info 😂

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

To address the lack of the Indic LLM dataset for pre-training, we have released a 300 million Odia tokens dataset for LLM pre-training.

For more details, check out our blog post:

📄 Blog: https://t.co/TEi8b1Cq2A
🔗 HF Link: https://t.co/kUMsaMdLKR

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

We had an outstanding quarter! From organizing an international workshop to launching a unique benchmarking project, all while keeping up with our regular deliveries—our mills are always running.

Read our second newsletter for details: https://t.co/IcqiudgwRR

[Sambit Sekhar @sambit_ai]

@FuteralMatthieu @oscarnlp @thorn @RandyZebaze @pjox13 @uinelj @CordeliaSchmid @RABawden @bensagot @inria_paris @InriaParisNLP @CNRS @zeeshank95 @filipsedivy @vic_rnrfl hv u try with Paligemma?

[Swaroop Mishra @Swarooprm7]

Had a great time talking at the inaugural ceremony of @OdiaGenAI 3 day workshop hosted with support by @KIITUniversity 🔥.

Thank you @achyuta_samanta @Saranjit72 @Shantipriyapar3 @Babunisatya Sir.

Some great talks are lined up and here is the schedule
https://t.co/ORpcTUZSKU
Also check out the cool works from the odia gen ai website
https://t.co/o1ZxepLvaH

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

We're excited to announce a poster session at our upcoming Generative AI workshop, focusing on Indic languages

Researchers in this field are invited to showcase their work and compete for the Best Poster award!

For more details, visit our workshop page: https://t.co/Zb3h2i0U3o

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

Registration is in full swing for our Generative AI workshop!
Join us for an exciting series of events over three days.

Link: https://t.co/Zb3h2i0U3o

@Shantipriyapar3 @sambit_ai @KIITUniversity @soumendrak_ @odias_in_ai @guneetsk99 @ak_panda

[Odia Generative AI @OdiaGenAI]

In the new series of Small Language Models (SLM) for Indic languages, @OdiaGenAI released Hindi-Gemma-2B-instruct, a 2Billion SFT with 187k large instruction sets in Hindi.

Model: https://t.co/zlKkt3JiUE

Dataset: https://t.co/i9rMWj3WDB

Blog: https://t.co/dYJg20kjSu