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New Tamil-first LLM, Agaram 2.5B, released with tool-calling capabilities

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Researchers have developed Agaram 2.5B, a new language model specifically designed for Tamil, trained from scratch on a dataset with a majority of Tamil text. This model demonstrates improved translation capabilities compared to existing Indic models and can perform tool calling with a high degree of accuracy. While it excels in language tasks, its knowledge and comprehension benchmarks indicate areas for future improvement. AI

IMPACT This release provides a valuable resource for developing AI applications in Tamil and other under-represented languages, potentially accelerating localized AI development.

RANK_REASON The item is a research paper detailing the creation and evaluation of a new language model for an under-represented language. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New Tamil-first LLM, Agaram 2.5B, released with tool-calling capabilities

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ramchand Kumaresan, Madhusudhanan G, Kaushik Kezendirane ·

    Agaram 2.5B: The First Tamil-First Language Model Trained from Scratch with Tool Calling. A Playbook for Under-Represented Languages

    arXiv:2610.18420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We trained Agaram 2.5B, a 2.5-billion-parameter Tamil-English language model, from scratch on about 50 billion tokens (58% Tamil, the rest English, math, code and parallel text) on one node of eight H100 GPUs in about six days, wi…

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