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THE SOVEREIGN AI FOR BHARAT 🇮🇳
Building India's First Indigenous Foundation Models from Sidhi to the World
📖 Table of Contents
| Section | Description |
|---|---|
| 🏛️ About Us | Who we are and our philosophy |
| 🎯 Mission & Vision | Our core goals and values |
| 🔥 Project Surya | Our flagship sovereign AI initiative |
| 🚀 Model Portfolio | Released & Upcoming Models |
| ⚙️ Technical Specs | Architecture & Performance |
| 🤝 Contributing | Join the Revolution |
🏛️ About Us
SKT AI LABS is a frontier AI research and development organization headquartered in the heart of India. Founded and led by Shrijan Kumar Tiwari, we are a team of researchers, engineers, and data scientists committed to building sovereign artificial intelligence that serves the 1.4 billion people of Bharat.
📍 Founded in: Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh & Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
Our Philosophy
We believe that the future of AI must be inclusive, culturally grounded, and sovereign. While global AI models have made remarkable strides, they often fall short when it comes to understanding the linguistic diversity, cultural nuances, and practical needs of India. SKT AI LABS exists to bridge this gap.
Why Sovereign AI Matters?
| Challenge | Our Solution |
|---|---|
| 🔒 Data Privacy | Indian data stays within Indian infrastructure |
| 🗣️ Language Barriers | Deep mastery of Hindi, Hinglish, and regional dialects |
| 🔗 API Dependency | Reduced reliance on foreign model providers |
| 🌍 Cultural Context | Models aligned with Indian values and societal context |
| ⚡ Latency & Cost | Optimized for Indian hardware and network realities |
🎯 Mission & Vision
🌟 Mission
To develop world-class, sovereign AI systems that understand, respect, and serve the linguistic and cultural diversity of India, while maintaining the highest standards of data privacy and technological independence.
👁️ Vision
A future where every Indian developer, startup, and enterprise has access to frontier AI that speaks their language, understands their context, and operates within their control — without dependency on foreign technology.
💎 Core Values
Data under Indian Control
Serving All Languages
Optimized Hardware
Community Benefit
Zero-Hallucination
🔥 Flagship Project: Surya
Project Surya is our ambitious initiative to develop India's own large-scale foundation models — built from the ground up for Indian contexts.
The Surya Series — Apex of Indian AI Performance
| Capability | Benchmark |
|---|---|
| ⚡ Inference Speed | 110+ tokens/second on optimized infrastructure |
| 🎯 Latency | Real-time responsiveness for interactive apps |
| 🗣️ Linguistic Mastery | Deep understanding of Hinglish, slang, idioms |
| 🏗️ Architecture | Efficient scaling from 100GB to 1TB GPU configs |
| 🎯 Accuracy | Zero-hallucination mandate |
| 🌐 Multilingual | Hindi, English, Hinglish, Indic support |
🎯 Target:: GOAL/DREAM: 146 Trillion tokens (future target) *STATUS: Work in progress
🚀 Model Portfolio
Note: Most models are Closed Source due to complexity and scale. Only experimental MoE variants were attempted for open-source.
Released Models
| Model | Params | Capabilities | Status | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SKT-SURYA-H | 2.6T | Vision + Text | Experimental MoE | CC-BY-2.0 |
| SKT-OMNI | 1.2T - 19B | Multi-Modal | Closed Source | CC-BY-2.0 |
| SKT-ST-X-0 | 49B | Vision + Text | Closed Source | CC-BY-2.0 |
| SKT-TIGER-7B | 7B | Text Generation | Closed Source | CC-BY-2.0 |
| SKT-ST-X-o | 1B | Classification | Closed Source | CC-BY-2.0 |
| SKT-MAX-M1 | 209M | Video Class. | Closed Source | CC-BY-2.0 |
| SKT-MAX-IMG | 1B | Vision Class. | Closed Source | CC-BY-2.0 |
| SKT-SUBASH | 5B | Video Gen (4s) | Closed Source | CC-BY-2.0 |
| SKT-BHAGAT-SINGH | 9B | Image Gen | Closed Source | CC-BY-2.0 |
In Development
| Model | Params | Capabilities | Status | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SKT SURYA-H-x | 700B | Vision+Audio+Video+Text | In Progress | 2027-28 |
| ST-X-TTS | 19B | TTS & Speech-to-Text | Private Testing | Internal |
| Nano GL GML | 36B | Vision & Video Gen | Dev Stage | Nov 2026 |
Model Capabilities Map
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SKT AI LABS MODELS │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 📝 Text Gen │ 🖼️ Image Understanding │
│ 🎵 Audio Proc │ 🎬 Video Understanding │
│ 💻 Code Gen │ 🧠 Reasoning & Logic │
│ 🌐 Hinglish │ 📊 Data Analysis │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
📊 Datasets
SKT-NRS — High-quality Indic dataset collection
Visit SKT-NRS on Hugging Face
⚙️ Technical Specifications
Model Architecture
Organization: SKT AI LABS
Model Series: SKT Surya Series
Architecture: Custom Transformer-based (SKT_ST-X-0)
Specialization: Advanced Coding, Logical Reasoning, Hinglish Mastery
Quantization: GGUF, EXL2, AWQ (Broad Accessibility)
Performance Targets
- ✅ Hallucination Reduction — Fact-grounded responses
- ✅ 79+ tokens/s — Real-time inference capability
- ✅ Deep Hinglish — Slang, idioms, and dialect mastery
- ✅ Multi-Modal — Text, image, audio, and video understanding
- ✅ Energy Efficient — Optimized for accessible hardware
🏗️ Architecture Overview
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SKT AI LABS ARCHITECTURE │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ │
│ │ INPUT │───▶│ PROCESSING │───▶│ OUTPUT │ │
│ │ LAYER │ │ ENGINE │ │ LAYER │ │
│ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ ▼ ▼ ▼ │
│ Text/Image/Audio/Video → Custom SKT_ST-X-0 + Experts │
│ │
│ INDIAN CONTEXT MODULE (Hinglish, Culture, Values) │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
🚀 Getting Started
Prerequisites
# Python 3.10+
# CUDA 12.1+ (for GPU inference)
# 100GB+ RAM (for smaller models)
# 800GB-1TB GPU VRAM (for full-scale models)
🤝 Contributing
We welcome contributions from researchers, engineers, data contributors, and AI enthusiasts who share our vision of sovereign AI for India.
How to Contribute
- Fork the repository
- Create a feature branch
- Commit your changes
- Push to the branch
- Open a Pull Request
📜 License
Our Models are licensed under the SKT Commercial License.
Note: Please contact us for specific licensing terms for commercial use.
📞 Connect With Us
Join the Sovereign AI Revolution
We are actively seeking collaborators, researchers, and partners who want to build Bharat's own frontier AI.
🌟 Developed with ❤️ in Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh, India 🇮🇳
Jai Hind! Let's build the future of AI Together 🔥