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Modi Tells Indian AI Startups To Build Ethical, Privacy-First Models

Shortlisted teams will showcase India-focused systems at the India AI Impact Summit in February.

Overview

  • At a January 8 roundtable at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg, 12 firms chosen for the AI for ALL: Global Impact Challenge presented their work ahead of the summit.
  • Modi described founders as co-architects of India’s future and urged a Made in India, Made for the World approach that elevates regional languages and indigenous content.
  • He assured full government backing and pressed entrepreneurs to pursue global leadership through affordable, inclusive, frugal AI.
  • The cohort spans Indian-language foundation models and multilingual LLMs, speech-to-text, text-to-audio and text-to-video, generative 3D content, engineering simulations, materials research, advanced analytics, and healthcare diagnostics.
  • Representatives from Avataar, BharatGen, Fractal, Gan, Genloop, Gnani, Intellihealth, Sarvam, Shodh AI, Soket AI, Tech Mahindra, and Zenteiq attended, alongside IT ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and Jitin Prasada.