New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Monday announced the launch of FiMI, a domain-specific artificial intelligence language model built for India's digital payments ecosystem.

FiMI, short for Finance Model for India, was unveiled at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 and is designed to support high-volume, high-trust payment systems such as Unified Payments Interface (UPI). NPCI said the model has been developed in-house to address gaps seen when general-purpose AI models are applied to complex financial workflows.

The model currently powers NPCI's UPI Help Assistant, an AI-based conversational support system launched as a pilot for UPI users. The assistant helps users with transaction queries, disput...