Hanooman
India's Indic LLM family (1.5B–40B) — consumer app pulled in 2025
Overview
Hanooman is a family of open Indic LLMs (1.5B-40B params, 22 languages) from SML India and 3AI Holding, built on IIT Bombay's BharatGPT research. Its consumer Android app was delisted from Google Play in Oct 2025 after ~6,400 downloads, and Tracxn lists the company as inactive.
Pricing
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- Multilingual chat (98 languages)
- Indic-language focus
- Premium tier announced but not yet priced
- Contact Hanooman (3AI Holding/SML)
- Domain solutions for enterprise
Use cases
What you can produce with Hanooman
- Chat responses in around a dozen live Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, and Malayalam, with a stated roadmap toward all 22 scheduled languages
- Open-weight model downloads in four sizes (1.5B, 7B, 13B, 40B) under non-commercial licence
- Multimodal outputs including text-to-speech and planned text-to-video generation
- Healthcare-specific fine-tuned variant (VizzhyGPT) trained on clinical, EMR, and multiomics data
- Android app and web platform accessible for basic use
- Enterprise model-as-a-service and domain fine-tuning for BFSI, healthcare, and government sectors
- API access documented via 3AI Holding Postman collection for third-party integration
ASEAN Perspective
Hanooman in Southeast Asia
Tamil — one of Singapore's four official languages and widely spoken in Malaysia — is among Hanooman's supported Indian languages, giving the platform organic relevance for the Tamil diaspora across ASEAN. The 98-language consumer platform includes major global languages used across Southeast Asia (English and others), but no dedicated SEA regional languages such as Malay, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, or Filipino are confirmed in the training corpus. ASEAN enterprises seeking Indic-language AI capabilities for Indian diaspora communities will find Hanooman the most accessible open-weight option available; general ASEAN-language NLP needs are better served by region-specific models.
Note: Hanooman's consumer app was delisted from Google Play in October 2025 and Tracxn lists the company as deadpooled; current operating status is unconfirmed.
Hanooman looked like a serious entry in 2024: four open-weight sizes (1.5B to 40B), IIT Bombay's BharatGPT pedigree behind it, and a stated goal of 22 Indian languages including a healthcare-focused VizzhyGPT variant. Reliance's involvement was always indirect — a consortium backer, not an owner, as founder Vishnu Vardhan clarified publicly — but that got overstated in early coverage anyway.
By 2026 the signals point downward. The Hanooman Android app was delisted from Google Play in October 2025 after roughly 6,400 downloads — a short run for a product pitched at 200 million users. Tracxn's database lists the company as deadpooled, and no active Hugging Face repository for the model weights turned up in a fresh search. Vardhan's public activity now centers on Vizzhy, the healthcare-AI spinout. Treat Hanooman as a research project whose current operating status is genuinely unclear, not a live production platform — verify directly with SML before relying on it.
What people say
6,400 downloads. That's the entire lifetime tally of the Hanooman Android app before Google Play delisted it in October 2025 — a quiet ending for a platform that launched in May 2024 promising 200 million users and coverage across 98 languages. Tracxn's company database now lists Hanooman as deadpooled.
The underlying research isn't nothing. Hanooman came out of the BharatGPT consortium (IIT Bombay plus seven other IITs, Department of Science and Technology funding), and the model family — 1.5B, 7B, 13B, and 40B open-weight checkpoints across 22 Indian scheduled languages — represented genuine engineering work, including a clinically-focused variant called VizzhyGPT built on hospital EMR data. Reliance Jio's name got attached early via consortium funding, which founder Vishnu Vardhan later clarified was indirect, not a direct product investment — a useful correction, but it didn't stop the "Ambani-backed AI" framing from sticking in press coverage.
What's harder to pin down now is whether any of it is still live. The consumer app is gone from the Play Store. A fresh search turned up no active Hugging Face repository for the model weights, despite the "open-sourced" framing in earlier coverage. Vardhan's more recent public appearances are under the Vizzhy healthcare-AI brand rather than Hanooman. None of this proves the project is fully dead — enterprise deployments or API access, if any exist, wouldn't necessarily show up in a web search — but the public-facing product looks abandoned, and anyone considering it for a real deployment should confirm current status directly with SML rather than trust the original 2024 launch materials.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
Notable facts
- Hanooman is named after the Hindu deity Hanuman — symbolising strength, devotion, and service — a deliberate cultural grounding for India's first sovereign multimodal LLM.
- The BharatGPT consortium behind Hanooman spans nine Indian Institutes of Technology, making it one of the largest academic AI collaborations in Indian history.
- SML India founder Dr. Vishnu Vardhan is a former orthopaedic surgeon who pivoted from operating theatres to AI and built Hanooman's healthcare variant VizzhyGPT on clinical, EMR, and multiomics data.
- When Hanooman went live in May 2024 it launched simultaneously in 98 languages — a wider language footprint at launch than most Western LLMs achieved in their first year.
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