About the Initiative
India First AI began as a simple question: where does India go to find AI that's actually built here - in its languages, for its citizens and businesses? This is the answer.
What we track
Every listing on India First AI falls under one of four pillars, so builders and citizens alike can find what's relevant to them in seconds.
Foundation and domain models trained or fine-tuned in India, benchmarked for quality, safety and language coverage.
Tools that help Indian enterprises and MSMEs adopt AI for support, marketing, operations and compliance.
Services that help citizens access welfare schemes, healthcare guidance and government information in plain language.
Language preservation, heritage archiving and creative tools that keep India's cultural record accessible for generations.
Milestones
Launched as an open, community-maintained directory with an initial 80 listings across all four pillars.
Partnered with language researchers to prioritise coverage of scheduled and low-resource Indian languages.
Crossed 500 vetted listings and opened free learning tracks to help builders ship responsibly.
Every submission is reviewed by the community and the IfAI Lab team before it's published.
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Council of Inspirations
As an industry veteran, senior executive, and angel investor, I consistently witnessed that a compelling cause and a sense of community cohesion are the two most crucial factors for an initiative to make a meaningful contribution to society. IfAI demonstrates excellence in both aspects, it is especially vital in the contemporary AI era.
Having led products from circuit boards to the cloud across embedded systems, connected vehicles, and AI, I've learned that the hardest challenge is rarely the technology itself, but aligning people, partners, and purpose around it. IfAI is taking on this responsibility head-on, which is needed in today's world.
