---
library_name: transformers
license: other
---

This is an early checkpoint of sarvam-2b, a small, yet powerful language model pre-trained from scratch on 4 trillion tokens. It is trained to be good at 10 Indic languages + English. Officially, the Indic languages supported are: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu.

sarvam-2b will be trained on a data mixture containing equal parts English (2T) and Indic (2T) tokens. The current checkpoint has seen a total of 2 trillion tokens, and has not undergone any post-training.

Getting started:
```
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline(model='sarvamai/sarvam-2b-v0.5', device=0)
pipe('भारत के प्रथम प्रधानमंत्री', max_new_tokens=15, temperature=0.1, repetition_penalty=1.2)[0]['generated_text']
# 'भारत के प्रथम प्रधानमंत्री जवाहरलाल नेहरू की बेटी इंदिरा गांधी थीं।\n\n'
```

More technical details like evaluations and benchmarking will be posted soon.