Join me for 'AI—By the People, For the People', a Birds of Feather session at The Fifth Elephant 2024 Annual Conference, where I’ll unravel the complexities of AI components: algorithms, source code, data, and models. We'll tackle critical questions: 🌐 How is data—our new

Excited to share that we have conducted a datathon yesterday, as part of building Telugu corpus with native data that captures our culture for #TeluguAI Read more about our work in this informative piece by Sribala Vadlapatla timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad… #AI #Swecha #TeluguLLM

It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles. Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well. Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit

Kiran talking about this exactly at the The Fifth Elephant conference.

The current global IT outages totally disrupting vital sectors show the wisdom of the 2007 Kerala LDF govt’s visionary move to promote #FreeSoftware, reducing reliance on proprietary systems. The Central govt must, now, initiate such a shift to meet the needs of resilience and

Will be starting a new experiment. At the Swecha office we have created a new initiatives space called RAISE. It's an incubator for open source startups solving for India. We have mentors from startups, IIIT, IIT etc and the Swecha distribution network.

The AI Creators Program Begins! A new model of development! Not the Brute Force method adopted in building the existing models of LLM's. An alternative By the People n For the People# Swecha Telangana | స్వేచ్ఛ తెలంగాణ SwechaAP iiith C Chaitanya Praveen Chandrahas Sripath Roy Koganti Free Software Movement of India #AI4India #AI4Bharath

Kudos to all the selfless volunteers Swecha Telangana | స్వేచ్ఛ తెలంగాణ SwechaAP for achieving it! A special thanks to all the well wishers!

Debating on the openness of AI! Zainab Bawa points out the importance of DataSets and openness around it.

What does the appellate opinion in the publishers' lawsuit against our library mean for readers? For patrons like Prakash in India, it’s a devastating loss. What does the outcome of the publishers' lawsuit mean to you? Share your story ➡️ forms.gle/JgwWLxhvKgAZdV… #LetReadersRead

The last tweet of Sitaram Yechury that mentions free software!

Hard to believe that Com Sitaram Yechury is no more. A man of the masses and little less known detail among many of his contributions, he was also an ardent supporter of the FoSS paradigm and helped shape its future in India through public policy and nurturing movements!

The last seminar by Com Sitaram Yechury in Hyderabad on the Idea of India. youtu.be/S-IGLPFlRbY?si…

Narendra Modi धर्म पर कॉमरेड सीताराम का यह बयान सुना जाना चाहिए, गुना जाना चाहिए..बार-बार

E2E Networks - homegrown Indian cloud datacenter startup that IPOed (on the SME exchange) is going great guns! This is a (rare) Indian tech company that rubs shoulders with the global hyperscalers in the AI datacenter space amidst the AI frenzy all around! Kudos on the 🚀