CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Context: IIT Bombay has launched Project Udaan. ‘Project Udaan, ’ is an AI based end-to-end translation software ecosystem, which translates scientific and technical content from English to Hindi and all other Indian languages.

Detailed explanation-2: -IIT Bombay has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maharashtra Government for ‘Project Udaan’ which is an AI-based translation software ecosystem. The MoU was signed on January 5 between the Directorate of Higher Education and Director of Technical Education. Details below.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Institute Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, who is leading Project Udaan, said, “It is a complete ecosystem for machine translation aided by human effort.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Maharashtra government and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) have collaborated on a project named ‘Project Udaan. ‘ The institute and the government have also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to execute the project, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based translation software ecosystem.