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## About
OdiaGenAI is an open research initiative advancing Generative AI, LLMs, and multimodal technologies for Odia and low-resource Indic languages through community-driven, open-source collaboration.

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## Vision
Empowering Odia and low-resource Indic languages through open, multimodal, and community-owned AI.

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## Related Hugging Face Organizations

OdiaGenAI collaborates with and maintains close ties to other HF organizations that focus on Odia and Indic LLMs:

* **🔗 [OdiaGenAI](https://huggingface.co/OdiaGenAI)** – Main organization for Odia datasets, models, and AI tools (text, speech, OCR, multimodal).  
  https://huggingface.co/OdiaGenAI

* **🔗 [OdiaGenAI‑LLM](https://huggingface.co/OdiaGenAI‑LLM)** – Focused LLM organization with additional Odia and Indic‑centric model releases (e.g., Mistral, LLaMA variants).  
  https://huggingface.co/OdiaGenAI‑LLM

* **🔗 [odiagenmllm](https://huggingface.co/odiagenmllm)** – Organization hosting multilingual and Odia‑focused LLM projects, benchmarks, and community models.  
  https://huggingface.co/odiagenmllm

* **🔗 [OdiaGenAIdata](https://huggingface.co/OdiaGenAIdata)** – Dataset‑centric organization hosting large corpora for Odia pretraining and evaluation (if separate).  
  https://huggingface.co/OdiaGenAIdata

* **🔗 [OdiaGenAIOCR](https://huggingface.co/OdiaGenAIOCR)** – Organization dedicated to **Odia OCR datasets, models, and tools** for printed and handwritten text recognition.  
  https://huggingface.co/OdiaGenAIOCR

* **🔗 [Hindi‑data‑hub](https://huggingface.co/Hindi-data-hub)** – A community‑driven hub for **Hindi language datasets and models**, supporting Indic language research.  
  https://huggingface.co/Hindi-data-hub

* **🔗 [HydraIndicLM](https://huggingface.co/HydraIndicLM)** – An Indic LLM initiative focused on building and hosting language models and benchmarks for multiple Indic languages.  
  https://huggingface.co/HydraIndicLM

* **🔗 [ShopIntel](https://huggingface.co/ShopIntel)** – Organization oriented toward **multilingual models and industry‑focused AI research**, including support for Indic languages.  
  https://huggingface.co/ShopIntel

* **🔗 [Indic‑Benchmark](https://huggingface.co/Indic-Benchmark)** – Initiative providing **benchmarks and evaluation suites** for multiple Indic languages across NLP tasks.  
  https://huggingface.co/Indic-Benchmark 


## Objectives
OdiaGenAI focuses on:

- **Foundation Models for Odia and Indic Languages**
- **Instruction-tuned and Task-specific LLMs for Indic Use Cases**
- **Speech and OCR Technologies for Odia and Indic Languages**
- **Multimodal AI (Text + Vision + Speech) for Low-resource Languages**
- **Open Data Creation, Benchmarks, and Evaluation Frameworks**


All outputs are released for **research and non-commercial use**.

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## Why OdiaGenAI?

* **Low-resource challenge** — Odia support in existing LLMs is limited due to scarce training data.
* **Openness** — Proprietary models restrict access; we provide free, open models and datasets.
* **Ethics & privacy** — Transparent data practices and community ownership of language tech.

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## Focus Research Areas

### 1. Literature & Benchmarking
Survey and evaluate generative AI and multimodal models for Odia.

### 2. Development
Curate datasets; build tokenizers, models, and training pipelines.

### 3. Deployment & Access
Host models and tools via **Hugging Face**, along with APIs and demos.

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## Who Can Use OdiaGenAI?
* Researchers, students, developers, and NGOs.  
Models and datasets are available via **Hugging Face for research and non-commercial purposes**. Contact us for special use cases.

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## Key Application Areas
* Education
* Healthcare
* Governance
  


## Contributors
* [Shantipriya Parida (Founder)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantipriya-parida-9781a9127/)
* [Sambit Sekhar (Founder)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sambit-sekhar-ai/)
* [Swateek Jena](https://www.linkedin.com/in/swateek/)
* [Abhijeet Parida](https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-parida/)
* [Dr. Satya Ranjan Dash](https://ksca.kiit.ac.in/profiles/satya-ranjan-dash/)


  *About our logo:* The critically endangered [Olive Ridley](https://roundglasssustain.com/photostories/olive-ridley-turtles-endangered) sea turtle is the world's smallest and most prevalent marine turtle. Travel thousands of kilometers in the ocean for nesting. The Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in [Odisha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odisha) is the largest known mass nesting rookery for olive ridley sea turtles worldwide.

## Citation

If you find this repository useful, please consider giving 👏 and citing:

```
@misc{OdiaGenAI,
  author = {Shantipriya Parida and Sambit Sekhar and Swateek Jena and Abhijeet Parida and Satya Ranjan Dash},
  title = {OdiaGenAI: Generative AI and LLM Initiative for the Odia Language},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  journal = {Hugging Face repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/OdiaGenAI}},
}
```

## License

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