Hugging Face Details 2.8T-Token Indic Pretraining with Open Data Pipeline
Hugging Face has published details of a large-scale Indic pretraining effort involving 2.8 trillion tokens, alongside an open data generation pipeline. The initiative aims to improve language model performance for Indian languages by providing transparent, reproducible data creation methods.
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