Hanooman

Hanooman, launched in May 2024 by SML India in partnership with Abu Dhabi-based 3AI Holding, is India's homegrown multilingual GenAI platform — named after Lord Hanuman. It debuted in 98 global languages including 12 Indian languages (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, Odia, Punjabi, Assamese, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Sindhi), built on what the companies describe as specialized LLMs combined through a dynamic integration synthesis matrix.

The launch was backed by serious partnerships: HP, NASSCOM (AI startups, 3,000 colleges, fintech), and Yotta for GPU cloud infrastructure, plus government collaboration with Telangana and DARPG on English-Telugu translation of documents like court orders. The company targeted 200 million users in its first year and offers both an open-source alternative to commercial LLMs and a closed-source variant for enterprise on-premise deployments.

Honest caveats: the 200M-user target and 98-language claims are company-reported; no independent benchmark data for the underlying models has been published. Hanooman is delivered as a platform (web/Android), not as downloadable weights, so treat it as a product built on LLMs rather than an open model release.