India, Feb. 20 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the session "Making AI for everyone: The case for personal, local, multilingual AI" showcased how language technologies, open infrastructure, and global partnerships can expand AI access to every citizen, regardless of connectivity, literacy, or linguistic background.
The session opened with a live demonstration by Current AI and Bhashini, presenting a handheld, privacy-preserving multilingual AI device capable of running locally with minimal or zero connectivity. The demonstration illustrated how speech recognition, translation, and vision models can operate together at the edge, enabling users to interact with AI in their native languages...