Overview

• At the July 25 Bhashantara 2025 conference, India formally declared its readiness to share homegrown AI models with developing nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
• Officials highlighted India’s linguistic diversity—with over 19,500 languages and dialects—as a foundation for natural language processing and voice-based AI tailored to resource-constrained regions.
• Mission Bhashini and the Anuvadini app have demonstrated India’s human language technology capabilities by capturing regional dialects and enhancing translation across multiple Indian languages.
• The IndiaAI Mission’s AI Kosh repository aggregates more than 400 datasets to support researchers and entrepreneurs in creating multilingual AI applications.
• The government is mobilizing multi-stakeholder partnerships spanning industry, academia and international bodies to operationalize shared models and datasets across the Global South.