3AI Holding Limited, a global AI investment firm from Abu Dhabi that invests in AI infrastructure and AI foundational companies, has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with SML India, allowing them to jointly own ‘Hanooman’, a multilingual GenAI platform. Seetha Mahalaxmi Healthcare (SML) introduced Hanooman in February this year at NASSCOM’s NTLF Techade conference.
3AI Holding’s homegrown proprietary patent-pending Omega generative AI will make ‘Hanooman’, bigger and more powerful, which is set to launch on May 1, 2024, according to a company statement. With the newly formed strategic partnership between 3AI Holding and SML, Hanooman aims to reach 200 million users in 22 Indian languages within the first year from the day of its launch.
Hanooman will be jointly owned by both parties, each holding a 50 per cent share. With this joint venture, Hanooman will offer its multimodal and multilingual capabilities, including text, voice, image, and code, to its users.
Speaking on the collaboration, Arjun Prasad, Managing Director, 3AI Holding, said, "The partnership with SML to power Hanooman is a step towards our shared vision to provide equitable AI access to the Indian masses. We are focusing on catering to a diverse range of users through our advanced multilingual text capabilities."
Dr. Vishnu Vardhan, Co-Founder & CEO, SML India, said, "With this strategic partnership, we aim to reach 200 million users in 22 Indian languages within 12 months. 3AI Holding’s proprietary, patent-pending Omega generative AI will further help us expand our reach to the masses in a way that has never been possible before. This will make India a pioneer in the adoption and usage of AI, benefiting a vast majority of people in our country."
Further, through this joint collaboration, Hanooman will create a generative AI ecosystem for the world, enabling budding generative AI platforms to build their applications. It will also be offering the platform to startups and incubating them along with NASSCOM to ensure that the generative AI space thrives and India gets the required boost to lead this space.
