India's AI development requires bridging the regional language divide

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India's AI progress hinges on bridging the regional language divide, as current models struggle with the nation's linguistic diversity. Over two dozen official languages and over a hundred dialects exist in India. If AI cannot accommodate this, it risks exacerbating existing inequalities, leaving the English-speaking elite further ahead. True AI inclusion requires models to understand diverse spoken languages and dialects, a challenge that US tech giants and Indian startups are now actively addressing.


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