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Birla AI Labs Launches Yug-1, a Time Series Foundation Model Built in India

Source: Analytics India MagazineSiddharth JindalOctober 19, 2026
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Birla AI Labs, part of the Aditya Birla Group, launched Yug-1, a time series foundation model (TSFM) pre-trained on universal temporal patterns from weather, traffic, finance, retail, and energy data. The model, developed in under six months, outperformed first-generation TSFMs on the GiftEval benchmark and performed competitively against newer-generation models. Yug-1 is designed for business applications including demand forecasting, financial analysis, equipment monitoring, and infrastructure planning, and is available on GitHub and Hugging Face.

Key points

  • Yug-1 is Asia's first TSFM built for production use
  • Developed and deployed in under six months by Birla's frontier research team
  • Available open-source on GitHub and Hugging Face for developers

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