The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has released the indigenous foundation models EKA-1, developed by Soket Labs Technology and Research Private Limited, and Dhīr (Dhīr 2B & Dhīr 5B), developed by ZenteiQ AiTech Innovations, under the IndiaAI Mission.
EKA-1 features 26.3 billion parameters and supports all 22 scheduled Indian languages alongside English for math, code, reasoning, and agentic use. ZenteiQ’s open-source Dhīr 2B and Dhīr 5B models support English and 10 Indian languages, enabling secure, on-premise, and offline-capable deployment for critical sectors such as defence, government, industrial, and educational environments.
According to the government, these models were developed with support from the IndiaAI Innovation Centre pillar, utilizing national AI compute infrastructure and ancillary research support.
What it means
- Through platforms such as AIKosh, models like EKA-1 and Dhīr can be accessed by researchers, students, innovators, and the public.
- Dhīr 2B and Dhīr 5B can be deployed as secure, on-premise, multilingual assistants supporting English and 10 Indian languages for offline-capable automation and services.
Source
Press Information Bureau, Government of India, “IndiaAI Mission Released Indigenous Foundation Models EKA-1 by Soket and Dhīr 2B & Dhīr 5B by ZenteiQ Under the IndiaAI Innovation Centre Pillar”. Read the original release.
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