Murai Labs Open-Sources Agaram 2.5B, a Tamil-First Language Model Trained From Scratch for Under $5,000

Murai Labs has released Agaram 2.5B, an open Tamil–English language model trained from random weights with a tokenizer built for Tamil, on a pretraining compute bill of about USD 4,765. It translates better than Sarvam-1 in the directions tested but remains weak on general knowledge.