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NVIDIA scales Indic pretraining data to 2.8 trillion tokens and releases its data generation pipeline
Announced October 16, 2026
Verified (fact)
NVIDIA published a post on the Hugging Face blog titled 'Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline.' Going by the title, it has expanded its pretraining data for Indian (Indic) languages to 2.8 trillion tokens and released the pipeline used to generate the data. The collected item had no summary of the post itself, so the language mix, data sources, license, and whether any models were released alongside it could not be confirmed.
Needs fact-check (claim)
2.8 trillion tokens of Indic pretraining data and an open data generation pipeline (based on the post title)
Why it matters (interpretation)
The biggest obstacle for languages other than English is a shortage of pretraining data. If a large dataset is released together with the pipeline that generates it, the same approach could be applied to other low-resource languages, including Korean. The exact scope of the release and its license need to be checked in the original post.
Confidence medium
Sources
- Official Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline Hugging Face
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