Tajik AI developer zehnlab.ai named among top five winners of NVIDIA Codefest

Zehnlab. ai, the developer of Soro, a large language model for the Tajik language, has been named one of the five winners of NVIDIA’s Open Models AI Codefest. The competition focused on developing artificial intelligence solutions for the public sector using open models, according to T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. NVIDIA organized the competition with support from Deutsche Telekom and T-Systems. The organizers received 350 applications and selected 14 teams from 13 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Participants spent five weeks developing AI solutions using open models and NVIDIA Nemotron libraries. Following the final Demo Day on October 7, the jury selected five winners: Pleias of France, zehnlab. ai, ABA Technology of Morocco, Disseqt AI of Ireland and Algoritmica GmbH of Germany.

The winning teams presented their projects at the NVIDIA GTC Berlin Public Sector Forum on October 20. NVIDIA also named zehnlab. ai among the top five Codefest teams in a blog post about open models for Europe’s public sector. Agentic Soro to serve more than 4,000 schools Zehnlab. ai entered the competition with Agentic Soro, a project designed to turn Soro into an AI agent capable of using digital tools and searching for information online in response to queries in Tajik. According to T-Systems, the team developed the system using open NVIDIA Nemotron datasets. Agentic Soro is intended to become the next version of Soro, which is being rolled out to more than 4,000 schools. The system is designed to provide answers with source references, allowing users to check the information themselves. During the competition, T-Systems provided participants with access to NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 graphics processors through its Industrial AI Cloud infrastructure in Munich,…