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Nepali Startup SAGEA Launches Sage 2.5 Magnus, Challenging Global AI Landscape

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A Nepali AI company, SAGEA, has launched its flagship large language model, Sage 2.5 Magnus, aiming to compete with global AI giants. Developed from scratch with approximately 120 billion parameters, SAGEA claims Magnus is an original system, positioning Nepal as a producer rather than just a consumer of artificial intelligence.

  • SAGEA, operating from Bhaktapur, Nepal, is an applied research company focused on frontier artificial intelligence and AI infrastructure development.
  • The company's core team consists of 12 members, with founders Basab Jha and Ujjwal Puri associated with Tribhuvan University and Vedas College.
  • Sage 2.5 Magnus is designed to advance research in human-level intelligence across language, vision, and speech.
  • SAGEA's ambition is to transform Nepal from an AI consumer into an AI producer.
  • The company asserts that Magnus was developed entirely from scratch using its own training infrastructure and data pipelines.

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