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Language models 2 companies

A language model reads and writes text. These companies are building models trained on Indian languages.

Sarvam logoSarvamSarvam, a Bengaluru company, is building language models trained on Indian languages. Since 2025, the government's national AI programme has chosen it to build an Indian model.BengaluruHiring now
QX Labs logoQX LabsQX Labs, a very small Bengaluru company, presents itself as a company building Indian language models.
The tech, explainedLarge language model (LLM)
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Voice models 3 companies

Voice models turn speech into text, text into speech, or change a voice as someone speaks. They must answer within a fraction of a second.

SoundHound AI logoSoundHound AISoundHound AI, with engineers in Bengaluru, has built speech recognition for two decades. Its voice assistants are used in cars, restaurants and customer-service lines.Bengaluru
Sanas logoSanasSanas, with engineers in Bengaluru, builds a model that changes the accent of a speaker's voice as they speak. It sold this first to call centres.BengaluruHired recently
Cartesia logoCartesiaCartesia builds fast voice models used inside apps that must answer instantly. It uses a different design from the one most language models are built on.Bengaluru
The tech, explainedSpeech and voice AI
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Models for robots 1 company

Instead of a separate program for each robot, one model is trained to control many kinds of machine.

Skild AI logoSkild AISkild AI, with engineers in Bengaluru, is building one model for robots, trained to control many kinds of machine instead of one program for each robot.BengaluruHired recently
The tech, explainedRobotics foundation model
How it all worksGenerative AI applicationsTurning a language model into a Hindi support assistant.
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What's changing

Countries want their own models, and robots are getting a general model.

Governments, including India's, are paying for models trained on their own languages and run inside their own country. At the same time, companies are trying to do for robots what language models did for text: one model that can control many machines.

Read moreLarge language model (LLM)Robotics foundation model
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