Another Indian company that drew attention with product debuts this week include the Bengaluru-based Gnani.ai, which introduced its Vachana speech models at the summit.
Trained on more than a million hours of audio, Vachana models generate natural-sounding voices in Indian languages that can process customer interactions and allow people to interact with digital services out loud.
Job disruption and redundancies, including in India’s huge call centre industry, have been one key focus of discussions at the Delhi summit.
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The government-supported BharatGen initiative, led by a group based at a university in Mumbai, also released a new multilingual AI model this week.
So-called sovereign AI has become a priority for many countries hoping to reduce dependence on US and Chinese platforms while ensuring that systems respect local regulations including on data privacy.
AI models that succeed in India “can be deployed all over the world”, Modi said on Thursday.
But experts said the sheer computational might of the United States would be hard to match.
“Despite the headline pledges, we don’t expect India to emerge as a frontier AI innovation hub in the near term,” said Reema Bhattacharya, head of Asia research at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.
“Its more realistic trajectory is to become the world’s largest AI adoption market, embedding AI at scale through digital public infrastructure and cost-efficient applications,” she said.
Prihesh Ratnayake, head of AI initiatives at think-tank Factum, told AFP that the new Indian AI models were “not really meant to be global”.
“They’re India-specific models, and hopefully we’ll see their impact over the coming year,” he said.
“Why does India need to build for the global scale? India itself is the biggest market.”
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