Agaram 2.5B: The First Tamil-First Language Model Trained from Scratch with Tool Calling. A Playbook for Under-Represented Languages

Ramchand Kumaresan, Madhusudhanan G, Kaushik Kezendirane

We present Agaram 2.5B, a Tamil-first language model trained from scratch that converses in Tamil script, romanized Tanglish and English, and calls tools. Our first model, Agaram 1…