Bengaluru/New Delhi, June 17 -- For years, the world's most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models have spoken in English. Trained on sprawling datasets like Wikipedia, Reddit, and Common Crawl, models such as OpenAI's GPT-4, Google's Gemini 2.5, Meta's Llama, Microsoft's Bing AI, and Anthropic's Claude have mastered the dominant global internet dialect. But, they all falter when faced with the linguistic diversity of countries like India.

English-dominated AI models can hallucinate (fabricate facts), mistranslate key phrases, or miss the cultural context when prompted in Indian languages.

The concern is also over inclusion. With over 1.4 billion people and 22 official languages, alongside thousands of dialects, India can ill affo...