About akṣara
Industry’s first purpose-built open-source micro foundational model to enable sustainable and climate smart agriculture. AI at your fingertips to protect yields, adapt to climate change, fight pests and diseases, save water and soil – even with limited data and resources.
The vision with akṣara is to create the world’s first AI powered digital agronomist, to answer precise and complex questions on regenerative agriculture and climate smart agriculture practices with simple prompts in a Q&A format. akṣara will empower human agriculture experts to help smallholder farmers at scale, while helping them navigate the impact of climate change in regions like Africa, India and SouthEast Asia.
About akṣara
Industry’s first purpose-built open-source micro foundational model to enable sustainable and climate smart agriculture. AI at your fingertips to protect yields, adapt to climate change, fight pests and diseases, save water and soil – even with limited data and resources.
The vision with akṣara is to create the world’s first AI powered digital agronomist, to answer precise and complex questions on regenerative agriculture and climate smart agriculture practices with simple prompts in a Q&A format. akṣara will empower human agriculture experts to help smallholder farmers at scale while helping them navigate the impact of climate change in regions like Africa, India, and South-East Asia.
Collaborative AI development for a more secure and resilient food system.
akṣara is specially designed to solve the problem of underserved farming communities in the Global South, removing barriers to knowledge and empowering anyone in the agriculture ecosystem to build and deploy frugal and scalable AI solutions for the sector. With the goal of democratizing access to digital technologies and modernizing agriculture for the 21st century, Cropin aims to empower agricultural stakeholders, developers, and researchers to tackle global challenges like food security, climate change, resource conservation - water and soil, amongst others by providing access to contextual, accurate and actionable data sets and information.
Frugal Innovation
to solve at planet scale
Lightweight Micro Language Model to solve for agriculture use cases, enabling AI investments to deliver impact at scale and making access to AI possible every player in the ecosystem from academia to development agencies to governments to agri-enterprises to help farmers everywhere.
AI that safeguards
against misinformation
Core model leverages RAGs and safeguards to avoid hallucinations or misinformation ensuring that timely but right information is available to the end user.
Responsible AI
Leadership
Championing ethical and socially responsible AI practices in agriculture.
Investing in
talent
Empowering a new generation of AI experts, including students and developers, to transform global agriculture.
See Akshara in Action
- Text Generation & Transformer Architecture:
Leverages cutting-edge AI for efficient information processing. - Compressed 4-bit Model:
Designed for resource-constrained environments, making it accessible to all farmers. - Trained on 5,000 Domain-Specific Datasets from the Indian Subcontinent:
Provides localized and relevant insights for regional agricultural challenges.
- Q&A Format (English):
Offers a user-friendly interface for farmers to ask questions and receive clear, concise answers. - Answers Cover Full Crop Cycle:
Provides guidance for every stage of the crop growth cycle, from sowing to harvest. - Comprehensive Agricultural Knowledge:
Offers insights into crop health management, disease prevention, and various climate smart and regenerative farming practices.
- Emphasis on Factuality & Accuracy:
Ensures reliable information and protects farmers from misleading advice. - No Misinformation:
Provides trustworthy and verified agricultural data. - Considers Local Regulations:
Excludes banned chemicals or practices specific to a region, ensuring farmers comply with local guidelines.
- Open-Source & Hosted on Hugging Face:
Enables further development and customization by the global agricultural community. - Collaboration is Key:
Promotes knowledge sharing and innovation within the agricultural sector.
- Evolving with User Needs:
As the Akshara community grows, the model will continuously learn and improve its capabilities. - Community-Driven Enhancements:
Open-source platform allows for ongoing development and adaptation based on user feedback.
Reduce Carbon Footprint
Track carbon sequestration against sustainable carbon footprint goals
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Monitor Deforestation/Afforestation with Land Use & Land Change (LULC) Models
Use our LULC models to distinguish between forest and agricultural land. Track plot encroachment into nearby forest land (or vice versa), and amount of encroachment over a specific configurable duration. Flag deforestation for each plot by LULC category and acreage of deforestation. -
Assess Cover Crops with Cover Crop Monitoring Models
Detect and monitor the growth of cover crops during off seasons. Get duration and termination dates of cover crops with our cover crop monitoring models. Use insights from the model data to design farm guidelines such as boundary trees, crop rotation, mulching etc. to increase crop residue and long-term climate resilience. -
Capture Forest Aboveground Biomass (FAGB) details with FAGB Models
Get insights into the presence of FAGB from our FAGB models powered with radar satellite imagery at specific time intervals. The model also calculates predicted biomass and difference in Mg/ha.
Ask Questions, Share Success, Shape the Future of akṣara
We know that this is just the beginning and we would love to hear from you. If you have ideas for collaboration, feedback or how we can scale impact in agriculture with akṣara, let’s speak.