New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- India's $1.2-billion AI Mission is preparing to make voice-first artificial intelligence (AI) models for Indian languages its calling card, aiming to differentiate itself from Big Tech firms that focus primarily on text-based AI.

The differentiator for artificial intelligence from India could include Indic languages-focused large language models, alongside voice-first models.

In an interview with Mint, Abhishek Singh, additional secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) and chief executive of the Centre's India AI Mission, said that the country's push to build its own foundational AI models will seek to create solutions that can be replicated in other nations.

"India's common compute infrastructure i...