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Ananth Nagaraj

Ananth Nagaraj

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Gnani.ai

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India builds sovereign AI for a billion voices

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Leading technical development of Inya VoiceOS

India has 22 official languages and over a thousand dialects, but until recently, none of the world's leading AI systems could reliably understand most of them. On February 17, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Inya VoiceOS, a 5-billion-parameter voice-to-voice AI model that processes speech natively in more than 15 Indian languages—built, trained, and deployed entirely within India. It marks the first time a non-Western nation has produced a frontier voice AI model designed for its own population at scale.

Updated Feb 17