Cropin launches Aksara, a gen AI system for climate-smart agriculture

Agritech firm Cropin Technology announced the launch of ‘Aksara’, a generative artificial intelligence system for climate-smart agriculture.

Cropin said the first version of Aksara will cover nine crops such as paddy, wheat, maize, sorghum, barley, cotton, sugarcane, soybean, and millets for 5 countries in the Indian subcontinent.

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This generative AI system can suggest to farmers which inputs to use for crops like rice or maize under specific agro-climatic conditions or provide climate-smart agriadvisories, the company said in a statement.

Aksara is an open-source

Krishna Kumar, Founder and CEO, Cropin

Micro Language Model (µLM) for climate-smart agriculture, built on Mistral’s foundation model. It is designed to address the problems faced by the underserved farming communities in the Global South by removing barriers to knowledge and empowering anyone in the agriculture ecosystem to build frugal and scalable AI solutions for the sector.

Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO, Cropin, said that in an era where Large Language Models are reshaping jobs, businesses, and customer interactions, the spotlight is now on industry-specific models trained on niche and comprehensive domain data as the ‘next big thing.’

These models can potentially transform agriculture, paving the way for a new era of tech-driven farming in a sector that has traditionally seen limited technological advancement.

“Domain-specific AI models for agriculture are expected to attract significant investments, o¢ering a practical and economically viable approach to food system transformation. Aksara reinstates our commitment to leading the tech-driven agricultural movement in the years ahead, significantly impacting small-scale farmers’ lives,” he said.