NVIDIA Unveils 2.8T-Token Indic Pretraining Corpus and Open Pipeline

NVIDIA, working with IIT Madras and its AI4Bharat lab, on October 16, 2026 introduced Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, a synthetic pretraining corpus of approximately 2.8 trillion tokens across 22 Indian languages that is releasing soon, together with the open, GPU-accelerated data generation pipeline used to create it. The 22 languages are those listed in India's Constitution, which the announcement describes as the first languages for 97% of Indians, nearly 1.2 billion citizens at the 2011...