India, Sept. 16 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

The Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), under the Digital India Corporation (DIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, in collaboration with Current AI and Kalpa Impact, hosted the finale of the VYOMA Innovation Challenge at IIIT-Delhi, bringing together researchers, students and startups developing practical applications of open-source AI hardware for diverse Indian contexts.

The challenge invited participants to build on Suno Sutra, an open-source, multilingual handheld AI reference design co-developed by BHASHINI and Current AI, and explore how AI hardware and software can be adapted for public-interest applications and loc...