# KissanAI Blog: full content index for AI agents > Source-grounded analysis on agricultural intelligence: AI in agriculture, crop and weather analysis, government schemes, mandi and market commentary, and product notes from the team building KissanAI, Dhenu, and FieldFoundry. This file expands [/llms.txt](https://kissan.ai/blog/llms.txt) with article-level summaries, tags, topics, crops, sources, and dates. It is intended for AI search engines and answer engines that want a denser, machine-readable view of KissanAI editorial output. ## Field memory: where agent memory meets the real world URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/field-memory Published: 2026-04-23 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: fieldfoundry, agentic-ai, memory-architecture, agriculture, us-agriculture Summary: Field Memory is meant for the messy reality of US agriculture: years of field history, scouting photos, recommendations, product evidence, and grower follow-through spread across people and software. Sources: - FieldFoundry | KissanAI: https://fieldfoundry.ai --- ## Two Desais on Krishi.System: where AI advice for farmers actually comes from URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/krishi-system-podcast Published: 2026-04-07 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: podcast, krishi-system, dhenu, fieldfoundry, agentic-ai Summary: Pratik joined Sachi Desai and Venky Ramachandran on Krishi.System for a 30-minute deepdive on the gap between agronomy literature and how farmers actually speak. Two complementary perspectives on B2B agentic AI: US large-holding and Indian smallholder. Sources: - Artificial Intelligence Deepdive with Two Desais | Krishi.System (Venky Ramachandran) (2026-04-07): https://www.krishidotsystem.com/p/artificial-intelligence-deepdive --- ## KissanAI is in India's 100 Top AI Start-ups, 2026 URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/top-100-ai-startups-india Published: 2026-04-07 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: announcement, recognition, indiaspora, zinnov, top-100 Summary: Indiaspora and Zinnov published their joint '100 Top AI Start-ups in India: The 2026 Report' in March. KissanAI is on the list. A short post on what the report tracks, why we are honoured to be in this particular cohort, and what the list says about Indian AI in 2026. Sources: - 100 Top AI Start-ups in India: The 2026 Report | Zinnov + Indiaspora (2026-03-25): https://indiaspora.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Top_100_AI_Startups_Report-compressed.pdf --- ## Today we are announcing FieldFoundry URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/fieldfoundry-launch Published: 2026-03-16 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: launch, fieldfoundry, announcement, north-america, agentic-ai Summary: FieldFoundry is the second product in the KissanAI portfolio. The AI Command Center for agriculture, built for North American commercial production. What it does, why we built it, and what 'context fragmentation' means when you try to fix it. Sources: - FieldFoundry | KissanAI: https://fieldfoundry.ai --- ## Five days at the India AI Impact Summit URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/india-ai-summit-2026 Published: 2026-02-23 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: india-ai-summit, dhenu-platform, agentic-ai, reflections Summary: We launched Dhenu Platform at Bharat Mandapam last week. The conversations that followed shifted how we think about the next 12 months. A team reflection on what we saw, who we met, and what the response from the IndiaAI community is telling us about agentic AI for agriculture. Sources: - India AI Impact Summit 2026 | IndiaAI / Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology: https://indiaai.gov.in/ - Dhenu Platform | KissanAI: https://dhenu.ai --- ## IndiaAI Innovation Challenge: KissanAI receives the ₹25 lakh recognition URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/indiaai-innovation-challenge-recognition Published: 2026-02-20 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: announcement, indiaai, innovation-challenge, recognition Summary: We've been recognised by the IndiaAI Innovation Challenge for our work on voice-first agricultural AI. A short note on what this funds, why the IndiaAI mission matters to us, and what we'll use the support for. Sources: - IndiaAI Mission | IndiaAI / Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology: https://indiaai.gov.in/ --- ## Dhenu Platform is live: agentic AI for agriculture, built on NVIDIA URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/dhenu-platform-shipped Published: 2026-02-16 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: launch, dhenu-platform, nvidia-inception, agentic-ai, india-ai-summit Summary: KissanAI launched Dhenu Platform at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. The first agentic AI platform for agriculture, built on NVIDIA NeMo, shipping a 20-agent suite that lets any agribusiness deploy AI to farmers in days, not months. Sources: - Dhenu Platform | KissanAI: https://dhenu.ai - India AI Impact Summit 2026 | IndiaAI / Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology: https://indiaai.gov.in/ - NVIDIA Inception Program | NVIDIA: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/startups/ --- ## How we shipped agentic harnesses for agriculture URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/agentic-harnesses Published: 2025-09-30 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: agentic-ai, engineering, multi-agent, orchestration, dhenu Summary: An engineering essay on the agent harness work: multi-agent orchestration, tool use, validation loops, deep research. The path from one model answering one question to coordinated agents that plan, retrieve, validate, and act. Sources: - KissanAI | KissanAI: https://kissan.ai --- ## Writing on the Wall: How Overlooked Data Can Fortify Legacy Industries URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/writing-on-the-wall Published: 2025-09-29 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: agentic-ai, legacy-industries, unstructured-data, kissanai Summary: A line of graffiti in Pompeii survived two thousand years of weather, war, and volcanic ash. Most enterprise data does not get that lucky. Agentic AI is the steward that finally takes those trivial signals seriously. Sources: - How GenAI Does Heavy Lifting in 5 Labor-intensive Industries | SAP: https://www.sap.com/resources/genai-in-labor-intensive-industries - IoT Data in Manufacturing: Fixing the 90% Waste Problem | IIoT World: https://www.iiot-world.com/industrial-iot/connected-industry/iot-data-manufacturing-waste-problem/ - Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic | MIT News: https://news.mit.edu/2020/artificial-intelligence-identifies-new-antibiotic-0220 - Agentic AI for Smart Agriculture: A Multimodal RAG System for Crop Disease Detection and Diagnosis | ReadyTensor: https://app.readytensor.ai/publications/agentic-ai-for-smart-agriculture-a-multimodal-rag-system-for-crop-disease-detection-diagnosis-mLRSML10lEYd - Pompeii in pictures | pompeiiinpictures.com: http://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R8/8%2001%2001%20p3.htm - What Is Agentic AI? Autonomous AI Agents Explained | Aerospike: https://aerospike.com/blog/agentic-ai-explained/ - Harnessing AI to Revolutionize Antibiotic Discovery | American Society for Microbiology: https://asm.org/articles/2025/august/ai-next-frontier-antibiotic-discovery - How AI Unlocks the Value of Unstructured Data | Domo: https://www.domo.com/learn/article/ai-and-unstructured-data - How Edge AI enables predictive maintenance in heavy industry | STMicroelectronics: https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/st-edge-ai-suite/case-studies/how-edge-ai-enables-predictive-maintenance-in-heavy-industry.html --- ## Trust in AI for agriculture starts with benchmarks URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/agribench-trust-benchmarks Published: 2025-08-26 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: benchmarks, ai-agribench, trust, evaluation, consortium Summary: An essay on why public benchmarks, not glossy demos, are how AI advisory services earn the trust of farmers and policymakers. The premise behind AI AgriBench, what evaluation we are doing, and what we are deliberately not. Sources: - AI AgriBench Consortium: Center for Digital Agriculture | Center for Digital Agriculture, University of Illinois: https://digitalag.illinois.edu/ - Extension Foundation | Extension Foundation: https://extension.org/ --- ## On the AIM 100 list, and what I think it actually signals URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/aim-100-most-influential Published: 2025-08-22 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: recognition, aim, india-ai Summary: Analytics India Magazine has named me to its 2025 list of the 100 Most Influential People in AI in India. A note about who deserves the credit, what I think the list actually signals about Indian agriculture AI in 2025, and why I am quietly pleased. Sources: - 100 Most Influential People in AI in India 2025 | Analytics India Magazine (2025-08-21): https://analyticsindiamag.com/ --- ## 22 languages is not 22 translations URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/twenty-two-languages Published: 2025-07-20 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: india-ops, multilingual, voice-ai, dhenu Summary: KissanAI currently supports 22 languages across two clear tiers: voice in 12, including English, and text in 10 more. Here is what that coverage does and does not mean. Sources: - KissanAI language coverage | KissanAI: https://kissan.ai --- ## Reasoning SLM for agriculture: research preview URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/reasoning-slm-preview Published: 2025-05-14 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: dhenu, reasoning-slm, research-preview, climate-resilience, open-source Summary: A research preview of two Qwen3 models tuned for climate-resilient agriculture in India: a 4B model and a 0.6B micro model trained on synthetic, agronomist-aligned dialogues. Sources: - ThinkingDhenu1-CRSA-India-preview model card | Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/KissanAI/ThinkingDhenu1-CRSA-India-preview - ThinkingDhenu1-CRSA-India-micro-preview model card | Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/KissanAI/ThinkingDhenu1-CRSA-India-micro-preview - Thinking-climate-100k dataset | Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/KissanAI/Thinking-climate-100k --- ## A Maharashtra farmer's harvest with AI URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/maharashtra-farmer-harvest Published: 2025-04-15 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: field-story, maharashtra, case-study, press Summary: An Economic Times feature profiled a Maharashtra farmer using KissanAI advisory for a full crop cycle. Numbers, not narrative. What changed in input cost, what changed in yield, and what the farmer told the reporter about how trust was built. Sources: - AI Rich Harvest: Maharashtra farmer cuts costs | The Economic Times (2025-04-10): https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ --- ## Building agriculture knowledge graphs from messy multilingual data URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/agriculture-knowledge-graphs Published: 2025-04-08 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: methodology, knowledge-graphs, agronomy, dhenu Summary: A methodology essay on the part of the work that nobody asks about: turning years of curated Indian agricultural content into a knowledge graph a model can actually reason over. Crops, pests, products, climates, languages, and the joins between them. Sources: - ICAR publications catalogue | Indian Council of Agricultural Research: https://www.icar.gov.in/en/all-publications - Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee | Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage: https://ppqs.gov.in/divisions/cib-rc/about-cibrc - Hugging Face: KissanAI organization | Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/KissanAI --- ## Pratik on the Nebius Spotlight at GTC 2025 URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/nebius-gtc-spotlight Published: 2025-03-25 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: podcast, nebius, nvidia-gtc, infrastructure, dhenu Summary: Pratik joined the Nebius / GeekWire Studios spotlight at NVIDIA GTC 2025. A short conversation on the cloud infrastructure behind Dhenu: why Nebius, what the cost curve looks like, and what serving inference to Indian farmers demands of a GPU stack. Sources: - Nebius Spotlight GTC 2025: Pratik Desai, KissanAI | Nebius / GeekWire Studios (2025-03-25): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89MJYk4i2_g --- ## Founding the AI AgriBench consortium URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/agribench-consortium-founding Published: 2025-03-07 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: ai-agribench, consortium, benchmarks, generative-ai Summary: Why we joined the Center for Digital Agriculture and the Extension Foundation in launching AI AgriBench, a benchmarking consortium for generative AI in agriculture. What it is trying to do, what we are contributing, and why agricultural AI needs this work. Sources: - Center for Digital Agriculture, University of Illinois | Center for Digital Agriculture: https://digitalag.illinois.edu/ - Extension Foundation | Extension Foundation: https://extension.org/ --- ## The visibility gap nobody talks about URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/visibility-gap Published: 2025-01-10 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: industry, operational-intelligence, dhenu, wedge Summary: Agribusinesses cannot see what is happening at the farmer level. Farmers cannot see what agribusinesses know. The wedge that closes that distance is operational intelligence, the part of agricultural AI nobody is shouting about. Sources: - KissanAI Launches Dhenu2 AI to Empower Farmers with Real-World Insights | Analytics India Magazine (2024-10-24): https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/kissanai-launches-dhenu2-ai-to-empower-farmers-with-real-world-insights/ --- ## Why agriculture AI gets stuck at pilot URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/why-ag-ai-gets-stuck-at-pilot Published: 2024-12-18 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: industry, ag-ai, pilot-to-production Summary: Most ag-AI pilots in 2023 and 2024 did not graduate to production. The reasons are structural (domain depth, the last mile, enterprise procurement) and better models are not fixing them. What the path past pilot actually requires. Sources: - KissanAI Launches Dhenu2 AI to Empower Farmers with Real-World Insights | Analytics India Magazine (2024-10-24): https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/kissanai-launches-dhenu2-ai-to-empower-farmers-with-real-world-insights/ --- ## What is actually new in Dhenu 2 URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/dhenu-two-climate-resilience Published: 2024-11-20 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: dhenu, llm, climate-resilience, open-source Summary: The Dhenu2 family shipped last month. This is about the part I care most about, climate awareness: what changed in the data, the architecture, and the eval, and what it gets us on the ground. Sources: - KissanAI Launches Dhenu2 AI to Empower Farmers with Real-World Insights | Analytics India Magazine (2024-10-24): https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/kissanai-launches-dhenu2-ai-to-empower-farmers-with-real-world-insights/ - Dhenu2 model card | Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/KissanAI --- ## What the Bay Area AgTech ecosystem looks like in late 2024 URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/bay-area-agtech-late-2024 Published: 2024-10-04 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: community, bay-area, agtech-alchemy, field-notes Summary: A field journal from the AgTech Alchemy meetup we hosted in October. Who showed up, what they are working on, where the conversation is going, and why a small Bay Area community of agritech founders and funders is starting to matter. Sources: - AgTech Alchemy | AgTech Alchemy: https://lu.ma/agtechalchemy --- ## Why we joined the AI Alliance URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/ai-alliance-membership Published: 2024-09-18 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: announcement, ai-alliance, open-ai, community Summary: We've joined the AI Alliance alongside AI4Bharat, IIT Jodhpur, Infosys, People+AI, Sarvam AI, and Wadhwani AI. A short note on why the open-AI thesis matters specifically for agriculture and what we are bringing into the alliance. Sources: - AI Alliance: new India members | AI Alliance (2024-09-17): https://thealliance.ai/blog/ai-alliance-expands-with-seven-new-members-from-in --- ## Voice-first, not chat-first URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/voice-first-not-chat-first Published: 2024-07-12 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: voice-ai, access, india-ops, dhenu Summary: Every farmer-facing build at KissanAI ships with voice on by default, in every language we can serve well. Why access, not features, drives that call, and what it means for an agribusiness scoping a deployment. Sources: - KissanAI | KissanAI: https://kissan.ai --- ## KissanGPT got a shoutout on The Ranveer Show URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/trs-shoutout Published: 2024-06-30 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: press, mention, the-ranveer-show, trs-hindi Summary: KissanGPT got mentioned on Ranveer Allahbadia's TRS Hindi podcast during a conversation with Masters' Union professor Dr. Nandini Seth, and a clip of the moment is making the rounds. Nice when the product turns up in conversations we didn't seed. Sources: - TRS Hindi (The Ranveer Show) | BeerBiceps / The Ranveer Show: https://www.youtube.com/@RanveerAllahbadia --- ## Made-in-India LLMs and where Dhenu fits URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/made-in-india-llms Published: 2024-06-15 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: industry, indic-llms, made-in-india, dhenu Summary: The current crop of indigenous Indian language models, sorted into what is working, what is vapor, and where domain-specific models like Dhenu fit. Written to clarify positioning rather than to win an argument. Sources: - AI4Bharat | AI4Bharat, IIT Madras: https://ai4bharat.iitm.ac.in/ --- ## KissanAI joins NVIDIA Inception URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/nvidia-inception Published: 2024-06-09 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: announcement, nvidia, inception, partnership Summary: We have been accepted to the NVIDIA Inception program. What this gets us, what it does not, and why we think the partnership matters for Indian agriculture AI. Sources: - KissanAI accepted for NVIDIA Inception Program | Analytics India Magazine (2024-06-09): https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/kissanai-accepted-for-nvidia-inception-program/ --- ## Pratik on Emergent Behavior: growth strategy for an AI in farming URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/emergent-behavior-podcast Published: 2024-05-15 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: podcast, emergent-behavior, kissangpt, growth-strategy Summary: Pratik went on EB-10 with Cogniscendo. A candid conversation on the unglamorous parts of building KissanGPT: the silence when farmers do not know what to ask, mellowing growth before monetisation, and why farmer-side revenue does not exist in developing economies. Sources: - EB-10: Growth Strategy (Cogniscendo) | Cogniscendo / Emergent Behavior (2024-05-14): https://www.emergentbehavior.co/p/2024-05-15-eb-10-growth-strategy --- ## Three of us on the JioGenNext Founder Talk URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/jiogennext-founder-talk Published: 2024-04-27 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: podcast, jiogennext, reliance, founders Summary: Lokesh, Pratik, and I sat down together on the JioGenNext Founder Talk channel: the rare conversation that put all three KissanAI cofounders in the same recording, with the engineering, business, and founder voices answering different parts of the same question. Sources: - Founder Talk: Pratik Desai, Lokesh Desai, and Chintan P of KissanAI | JioGenNext (2024-04-27): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL473kTgOG4 --- ## Open-sourcing Dhenu Llama 3 URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/dhenu-llama3-open-source Published: 2024-04-19 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: dhenu, llama-3, open-source, hugging-face Summary: We are releasing Dhenu Llama 3, an Indic agricultural language model built on Llama 3 8B. What changed from Dhenu 1.0, what the model is now usable for, and why we are putting the next iteration of our work in the open. Sources: - Dhenu Llama 3 model card | Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/KissanAI/llama3-8b-dhenu-0.1-sft-16bit - Introducing Llama 3 | Meta AI (2024-04-18): https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/ --- ## Pratik on Microsoft #ScaleUpThursday URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/microsoft-scaleup-thursday Published: 2024-03-28 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: podcast, microsoft, scaleup-thursday, dhenu Summary: Pratik joined Microsoft Reactor's #ScaleUpThursday for the season's closing episode: the KissanGPT origin story, why voice beats apps for farmers, and what it actually costs to train and serve a 7B agriculture model. Sources: - AI Revolution in Agriculture: KissanAI's Journey | #ScaleUpThursday | Microsoft Reactor (2024-03-28): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSaQxpM6GcU --- ## Dhenu Vision: a multimodal model for the field URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/dhenu-vision Published: 2024-03-15 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: dhenu, vision, multimodal, crop-protection, open-source Summary: Dhenu Vision is an early multimodal model for identifying crops and visible field symptoms from photographs. This engineering note explains the curation, reasoning, and failure modes behind it. Sources: - Dhenu Vision LoRA 0.1 model card | Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/KissanAI/Dhenu-vision-lora-0.1 --- ## AIISC: bridging knowledge gaps in agriculture with generative AI URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/aiisc-founder-talk Published: 2024-03-01 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: podcast, academic-talk, aiisc, dhenu, knowledge-graphs Summary: Pratik gave this week's Founder Talk at the AI Institute of South Carolina: how a domain model for agriculture gets built from the corpus up, and what it takes to put it in front of farmers who would not otherwise reach extension. Sources: - Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Agriculture with Generative AI: Pratik Desai | AI Institute of South Carolina (AIISC) (2024-03-01): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFIPPKumG4g --- ## Shortlisted in the IndiaAI Innovation Challenge URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/indiaai-shortlist Published: 2024-01-23 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: announcement, indiaai, innovation-challenge, shortlist Summary: A short note that KissanAI has been shortlisted in the IndiaAI Innovation Challenge under the agriculture track. What the shortlist means, what it doesn't, and why the programme's focus on agriculture-specific applications is good for the ecosystem. Sources: - IndiaAI | IndiaAI / Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology: https://indiaai.gov.in/ --- ## KissanAI and UNDP: a CoPilot for farmers URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/undp-copilot-for-farmers Published: 2024-01-05 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: announcement, undp, partnership, climate-smart-agriculture Summary: KissanAI and UNDP are partnering to develop a voice-based, vernacular CoPilot for climate-resilient agriculture. Here is what the partnership set out to build and who it aims to serve. Sources: - KissanAI and UNDP partnership announcement | Pratik Desai on LinkedIn (2024-01-05): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pratikkumardesai_ai-generatieveai-climateresilience-activity-7149008561849741312-9XFr - KissanAI Partners with UNDP to Launch CoPilot for Farmers | Analytics India Magazine (2024-01-23): https://analyticsindiamag.com/kissanai-partners-with-undp-to-launch-copilot-for-farmers --- ## GPAI India Summit 2023: AI for the Global South URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/gpai-summit-2023 Published: 2023-12-15 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: community, gpai-summit, global-south, dhenu Summary: A trip-report essay from the GPAI Summit hosted in New Delhi this December. What was discussed about AI for the Global South, where domain AI for agriculture fit into the conversation, and a few personal observations from the floor. Sources: - Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) Summit, New Delhi | Global Partnership on AI: https://gpai.ai/ --- ## Dhenu 1.0: training a domain LLM for Indian agriculture URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/dhenu-one-zero-at-gpai Published: 2023-12-13 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: dhenu, llm, open-source, hugging-face, gpai Summary: What we announced this week at the GPAI Summit in Delhi, why the weights are going up on Hugging Face, and what we learned training a 7B-parameter model on three hundred thousand instructions written in the language farmers actually use. Sources: - Dhenu 1.0 model card (Hugging Face: KissanAI/Dhenu-1.0-full-sft) | Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/KissanAI/Dhenu-1.0-full-sft - GPAI Summit, New Delhi (12-14 December 2023) | Global Partnership on AI: https://gpai.ai/ --- ## Why generic LLMs miss agriculture URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/why-generic-llms-miss-agriculture Published: 2023-08-15 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: industry, llm, agriculture, domain-models Summary: Five months into running KissanGPT in 2023, the limits of general-purpose language models in agriculture had a clear shape. These field observations explain why local data and domain systems mattered. Sources: - KissanGPT | KissanAI: https://kissan.ai --- ## What six weeks of farmer questions taught us URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/first-six-weeks Published: 2023-05-08 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: field-notes, kissangpt, early-days, farmer-queries Summary: An early field note from KissanGPT: the language and question patterns we saw, what farmers expected from the product, and what those conversations taught us to build next. Sources: - KissanGPT | KissanAI: https://kissan.ai --- ## KissanGPT: a small experiment, in Gujarati URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/kissangpt-founding Published: 2023-04-30 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: founding-story, kissangpt, vernacular-ai, voice Summary: A career in Silicon Valley, an evening in Surat, and a bet that the farmer my father trained should be able to ask a phone questions in his own language. This is how KissanGPT started, what we built first, and what we learned in the six weeks after the launch. Sources: - Indian Farmers' ChatGPT, KissanGPT | Analytics India Magazine (2023-04-12): https://analyticsindiamag.com/kissangpt-brings-cutting-edge-ai-to-indias-agriculture-sector - From fields to screens: KissanGPT, the AI chatbot helping Indian farmers | Business Insider (2023-04-13): https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/how-kissangpt-the-ai-chatbot-helping-indian-farmers-maximize-their-profits/articleshow/99428621.cms - Meet Indian Techie Who's Transforming Agriculture With Kissan GPT | Sputnik India (2023-04-27): https://sputniknews.in/20230427/meet-indian-techie-whos-transforming-agriculture-with-kissan-gpt-1708316.html --- ## Introducing KissanGPT: the first voice-based vernacular AI for Indian farmers URL: https://kissan.ai/blog/posts/kissangpt-launch Published: 2023-03-14 Language: en Topics: ai-in-agriculture Tags: launch, kissangpt, announcement, voice-ai, vernacular, generative-ai Summary: Today we are releasing KissanGPT, a voice-first, multilingual generative AI copilot for Indian agriculture. First of its kind in two ways: voice as the primary interface, and Indic-language support from day one. Sources: - KissanGPT | KissanAI: https://kissan.ai - Introducing Whisper | OpenAI (2022-09-21): https://openai.com/research/whisper ---