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Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline

AnnouncementResearchOct 16, 2026

NVIDIA and IIT Madras's AI4Bharat lab announced Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, a pretraining corpus of approximately 2.8 trillion tokens spanning 22 Indian languages. The release includes an open, GPU-accelerated data generation pipeline built with NeMo Data Designer. The corpus contains 2,601.0 billion native-script tokens and 224.6 billion romanized tokens, with romanization covering twelve languages. Every record traces to a curated source document. Continued pretraining for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL used 10 billion Indic tokens from the corpus.

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