Setu, a leading Indian fintech company, unveiled Sesame - India’s first Large Language Model (LLM) specifically designed for the BFSI sector. It is developed by Setu in collaboration with indigenous AI research firm Sarvam AI.

•  The unveiling took place at Adbhut India, an event organised by the non-profit People+ai, in the presence of Mr. Nandan Nilekani (Co-founder & Director - EkStep Foundation), Mr. Shankar Maruwada (Co-founder & CEO - EkStep Foundation), Mr. Tanuj Bhojwani (Head - People+ai), and other prominent figures in the world of fintech, AI, and digital public infrastructure.
• Sesame leverages the rich data ecosystem enabled by India's digital infrastructure to power features such as improved credit underwriting, fraud detection, loan monitoring, upsell/cross-sell and personal finance advisory.
• Setu and Sarvam AI have together created Sesame to be both domain and region-specific, by training it on custom data that is highly relevant to India’s BFSI sector.