New Delhi/IBNS, Jan. 7 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said a chance encounter with a teenager aboard the Vande Bharat Express has left him optimistic about India's technological future.

Tharoor took to social media to share a video of his interaction with Raul John Aju, a 16-year-old working in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), whom he met during the journey.

During the conversation, Tharoor-who has publicly stated that he prefers Google's Gemini over ChatGPT for his regular AI use-learnt that Raul and his teammate Ishaan are already developing systems capable of voice processing in Malayalam, Hindi and Urdu.

Raul shared details of the project when the Thiruvananthapuram MP spoke about the need for AI to transcend borders and, ...