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1. Global AI Use Rose in Early 2026 as Asia Led Adoption Growth

2. AI Dispatch | 1–7 May 2026

3. OpenAI Pushes Beyond Chatbots With Real-Time Conversational AI Models

4. IndiaAI, ICMR Partner to Build AI Healthcare Ecosystem

5. India’s IT Spending to Outpace Global Growth in 2026: Report

6. Meta to Scan Photos for Height and Bone Structure to Spot Underage Users

There is a version of India’s AI story that gets written entirely about 2023 onwards, as if nothing existed before the generative wave hit. Gnani.ai is a useful corrective to that narrative. Co-founded in 2016 by CEO Ganesh Gopalan and Ananth Nagaraj, the Bengaluru company has spent nearly a decade building voice AI that actually works in the messy, multilingual reality of Indian enterprise.

Today, it processes over 30 million voice interactions daily across 12 languages and counts more than 200 enterprise clients, including Fortune 500 companies, on its books. At the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026, Gnani unveiled Inya VoiceOS, a 5-billion-parameter voice-to-voice foundational model, alongside Vachana STT and Vachana TTS, both built for real-time, low-latency interaction across 15 Indian languages. 

The startup has raised $17.7 million across five rounds and is set to receive Rs 177.27 crore in compute support from the IndiaAI Mission. The global expansion has already begun.