Dharamshala: Monlam Tibetan IT Research Centre, an education software developer, launched its Monlam Artificial Intelligence (AI) this evening at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in the presence of Sikyong Penpa Tsering and Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel after presenting the final prototype of the software to His Holiness the Dalai Lama earlier that same day. 

The Monlam AI model launch event was also attended by sponsors and advisors of the Monlam team, along with Kalon Norzin Dolma of the Department of Information and International Relations, Standing Committee members of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile, Secretaries of Gaden Phodrang, Secretaries of Central Tibetan Administration, delegation from International Campaign for Tibet who are currently in Dharamshala, representatives of Tibetan NGOs and CTA senior officials. 

The new features of the software (monlam.ai) were introduced to the audience after a brief opening speech by Geshe Lobsang Monlam, the founder and CEO of the Monlam Tibetan IT Research Centre, to make its debut in today’s world of artificial intelligence that has recently drawn massive attention throughout the globe.  

This pioneering Tibetan AI tool allows users to access four primary machine learning models: the Machine Translation Model, Optical Character Recognition Model, Speech-to-Text Model and Text-to-Speech Model.