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NVIDIA and IIT Madras open a 2.8-trillion-token Indic corpus

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Native-script tokens outnumber romanized tokens in the Indic corpus, and the generation recipe is open.

Corpus composition by native-script and romanized token counts. — Picture from huggingface.co
Corpus composition by native-script and romanized token counts. — Picture from huggingface.co
Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1
total tokens2.8 trillion tokens
native-script tokens2,601.0 billion
romanized tokens224.6 billion
languages22
romanized languages12
language-script configurations34
tokenizerGemma-4
recovered tokens438.4 billion

The release pairs Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1 with an open GPU-accelerated pipeline.

The corpus covers 22 Indian languages. It holds about 2.8 trillion tokens.

Corpus composition by native-script and romanized token counts. — Picture from huggingface.co
Corpus composition by native-script and romanized token counts. — Picture from huggingface.co

Native-script data covers all 22 languages, while romanized text covers twelve.

Counts use the Gemma-4 tokenizer. The workflow keeps outputs scoring at least 75 out of 100.

figure3-cpt-before-after@2x — Picture from huggingface.co
figure3-cpt-before-after@2x — Picture from huggingface.co

The measured effect is tied to Nemotron 3.5 Super VL. A 10 billion-token Indic continued-pretraining stage raised five benchmarks by 4.98 to 9.82 points.

The corpus alone is not measured. The release does not isolate synthetic Indic text from natural Indic text, and it does not report the same gains for other models, languages, or mixtures.

figure4-super-generations-HD — Picture from huggingface.co
figure4-super-generations-HD — Picture from huggingface.co

The corpus is a data supply, not a model result. Its value is proven only for one Nemotron checkpoint and one mixture.

Buyers should treat the token count as inventory, not as a guarantee of transferable gains.

The corpus is inventory, not proof of transferable gains.

After huggingface.co. We did not report this. The pictures, if any, are theirs.

October 16, 2026 · 1 min
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