After reaching a respectable level of capacity and size, the Indian government is willing to share its AI models with the Global South, a top government official stated on Friday.
Speaking at the Bhashantara 2025 conference of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan stated that the economy could greatly benefit from the advancement of language technology that facilitates seamless communication.
He said that the UN Under-Secretary-General had praised India’s AI-related efforts while on a visit to the country.
“We had a discussion and then he said your model appears interesting. At a stage when you have adequate capacity both in terms of compute and in terms of the kind of models that you have, will you be willing to share this with the Global South? This is something that we have declared that we are open to doing and something that we will do,” Krishnan said.
Developing and less developed nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are referred to as the “Global South.”
The Bhashini project, which aims to develop AI-based language translation technology, was started by the government.
According to Krishnan, the majority of individuals in the nation would rather speak than write.
“I think voice-based communication has a critical role to play and that is where India can truly lead. The minute you say it is voice, then it means that you have to pick it up in the language that they are most comfortable with and what they would like to speak in. This is clearly the challenge that there are a number of researchers, a number of innovators and others who are addressing nationwide,” he said.
Krishnan said that through the India AI Mission, the government is making available more computing capacity and more data sets. “If you are able to sort of reduce the friction loss, if you are able to reduce the communication loss and the way that people communicate to each other, that in itself results in a huge wastage going away. I think that’s where this entire effort is so important, particularly in a multilingual and multicultural society like India,” he said.
Domain names are now accessible in all recognized Indian languages, according to Ajay Data, chairman of the FICCI’s Multilingual Internet and Universal Acceptance Committee.
“With more than 6 billion people globally not speaking English as their primary language and India home to 19,500 languages and dialects, data emphasised the vast commercial opportunities that lay ahead,” he said. Data said that website names in local scripts will ease communication for the vernacular masses.
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