Ekush LLM: Country’s first Bangla LLM

Bangladesh's first ever Bangla Large Language Model (LLM), Ekush LLM, has been released, opening up new horizons for Bangla language processing and artificial intelligence and revolutionising how Bangla speakers interact with technology. Bangladeshi AI startup Intelsense AI's product Sense.ai has released this LLM model. 
 
"As the world's first LLM trained and fine-tuned in Bangla, Sense.ai is building the full-stack for Generative AI. Our primary focus is to make Generative AI relevant to Bangladesh, with immediate attention given to training AI models to support the Bangladeshi language and
voice-first interfaces. Additionally, we are collaborating with Bangladeshi enterprises to co-build domain-specific AI models using their data to enhance workflow and productivity," remarked Rumman Arefin, Founder of Intelsense AI.
 
Sense.ai represents a leap forward in natural language understanding and synthesis of the Bangla language. Built upon advanced transformer-based architecture, this cutting-edge LLM is tailored to comprehend and generate Bangla text accurately and fluently. It promises to elevate Bangla language processing capabilities to the next level, enabling diverse applications across various sectors.
 
It will enable Bangla-speaking users to enhance communication experiences across digital platforms. From chatbots and virtual assistants to content generation and sentiment analysis, the possibilities are endless. Businesses, financial institutions, healthcare, advertising and media, educational institutions, and government agencies can leverage this technology.
 
Sense.ai's innovative breakthrough is motivated by its distinctive performance, setting it apart from traditional LLMs in the Bangla language context. It tries to understand Bangla words and characters through a unique multi-stage training process. Each stage is motivated by a different training philosophy, ranging from familiarising additional tokens with the target language to anomaly detection to maintaining and engaging in informative conversation. This training process ensures a profound level of language comprehension.
 
Sense.ai's horizons include in-house proprietary Voice AI technology. It enables users to take advantage of it from the root level, utilising it for all kinds of communication, such as telemedicine, agriculture and many other sectors, and positively impacting people's lives.