Broccoli AI, founded by BITS Pilani alumni AJ Jain and Aditya Ketkar, has raised $52 million across Series A and B rounds led by Khosla Ventures to scale AI agents that answer calls, book jobs and follow up on estimates for more than 1,500 home-service businesses.
Sarvam AI co-founder Vivek Raghavan has warned that India risks becoming a “digital colony” if it leans on free foreign AI services, and said the Bengaluru company is building a trillion-parameter model it expects to be ready within six to nine months.
Bengaluru-based Vaani AI Research has launched a self-serve platform that lets developers, startups and product teams build, deploy and manage multilingual voice AI agents across phone, web, apps and WhatsApp, built on the same voice harness that powers its enterprise deployments.
Arrowhead AI has launched Fletch, an in-house text-to-speech model supporting 14 languages, mid-sentence language switching and 12 emotion styles, already powering more than a million customer calls a day for Indian lenders and banks.
Bengaluru-based Gnani AI has launched Prisma v3.0, a speech-to-text model trained on Indian telephone audio and code-mixed speech, covering nine Indian languages plus Indian English with four transcription modes and a lower word error rate than ElevenLabs Scribe v2 in its Vistaar evaluation.
OpenAI has launched a festive-season campaign in India built around Neer and Leher, the two Hindi voices introduced with its GPT-Live-1.1 voice model, as the company doubles down on voice-first, multilingual AI for Indian users.
Bengaluru-based Hunar.AI has raised ₹40 crore in a Series A round led by Blume Ventures to scale its multilingual conversational AI agents that help enterprises hire, onboard, train and engage frontline workers.
Bengaluru-based Vahan.ai has collaborated with NVIDIA to fine-tune the Nemotron 3 Nano AI model for its voice-based recruitment platform, aimed […]
Bengaluru-based Murf AI is advancing the voice AI space with Falcon 2, a new text-to-speech model designed to make AI-powered […]
HP and Sarvam AI have announced a partnership to bring voice-first AI experiences to HP devices across India, starting with […]
