India, June 13 -- The next great power struggle in technology won't be about speed or scale, it'll be about whose language AI speaks. Because trust in technology begins with something deeply human: being understood.

You trust a doctor who speaks your language. You trust a banker who understands your context. So why would you trust an algorithm that doesn't know who you are, where you're from, or what your words mean?

This question is being asked by governments, developers, and communities across the Global South who have seen how powerful large language models (LLMs) can be-and how irrelevant they often are to people who don't speak English or live in Silicon Valley.

In India, the response until now has been BharatGPT. This is a collab...