🌾✨ Rural Surveys and General Purpose FAQ Bot — Our journey with Agentic AI begins here! We’re thrilled to share our project submission for the Inya.ai Buildathon Final Review, organized by gnani.ai, HackerEarth, and nasscom. Our problem statement: “Rural Surveys and General Purpose FAQ Bot” focuses on empowering rural communities through intelligent conversational automation. Our agent assists in conducting dynamic surveys, collecting responses, and answering general queries in real time, all while being accessible and multilingual. 💬 The bot seamlessly interacts in Hindi, English, and one local language – Marathi, ensuring inclusivity and ease of communication for diverse users. 🎯 Team Name: Safal (Krati Madhwani Dev Arora ISHANT GUPTA meghshyam karpe) 🧠 Track: Agentic AI – Let Intelligence Take the Lead Here’s a short demo of our agent in action, showcasing how AI can simplify communication, increase accessibility, and bring inclusivity to rural engagement. #InyaAI #BuildWithInya #AgenticAI #GnaniAI #HackerEarth #Nasscom

Daily Youth Vision : (From Affan Gohar) Islamabad Hosts AI Ambassadors Meetup byMindHYVE.ai Islamabad, Pakistan — The AI Ambassadors Meetup organized by MindHyve.ai took place at Movenpick, Centaurus, Islamabad, bringing together students, professionals, and tech enthusiasts to explore the future of artificial intelligence in Pakistan. Led byBill Faruki, a Pakistani-American entrepreneur, pioneer in AGI, and a leading voice in agentic AI, the session emphasized the transformative potential of AI in reshaping industries and empowering youth leadership. Participants engaged in discussions on agentic AI, digital transformation, and the role of Pakistani talent in global innovation. MindHYVE.ai, under the leadership of Bill Faruki, is building next-generation AI systems with a focus on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and enterprise-grade agentic AI platforms. Positioned as a strong alternative to traditional large language models such as OpenAI’s GPT and Google’s Gemini,MindHYVE.ai differentiates itself through its focus on autonomy, scalability, and enterprise applications—enabling businesses and governments to deploy AI agents that can learn, adapt, and act with minimal supervision. The event highlighted Pakistan’s growing AI community and the importance of collaborative efforts in preparing the next generation for the challenges and opportunities of the digital era. #AI #Innovation #digitaltransformation #AIAmbassador #MINDHYVE.AI #Youthvisionnews #AILERANING #letsconnect #letsconnecteveryone #Letsconnectwitheachother

🚀 Excited to share the next step in The Malawian AI Guy project! What started as a single close-up image has now evolved into a full-body AI-generated introduction video — a glimpse into the possibilities of AI-driven storytelling right here in Malawi. This project showcases not just creativity, but also the power of AI to bring ideas to life, and I’m looking for partners and investors who can support access to AI platforms and subscriptions to help this vision grow. Let’s connect and explore how we can push AI innovation in Malawi together! #AI #Innovation #MalawiTech #InvestInAI #DigitalInnovation

"India is stepping into a pivotal decade in its digital evolution. With a young population, increasing mobile and cloud penetration, and sustained digital policy momentum, the country is emerging as one of the most exciting frontiers for artificial intelligence (AI). However, this excitement comes with its own set of challenges. #AI isn’t just a tech narrative anymore. For India, it’s about trust, governance, and, most importantly, creating flexible infrastructure in a rapidly changing environment. Open, modular architectures play a vital role in this process. They empower Indian businesses to choose and implement only what they truly need, be it language-specific NLP, image classifiers for agriculture, or customer support workflows." - Abhinav Puri shares his thoughts on India's AI awakening with ETCIO. Read more here: https://okt.to/PAxWaK

Africa + AI = A Future Redefined!  From smarter farms to lifesaving health tools, AI is rewriting the story of development across the continent. In this week’s dispatch, we unpack how artificial intelligence is powering change in: Agriculture Healthcare Education Financial inclusion The future is here—and it’s African-led.  👉 Read the full edition now: https://lnkd.in/dWCzUi9M #AfricaRising #AIinAfrica #InnovationAfrica

India might just be the world’s most interesting AI lab. Not because of scale alone, but because of the complexity—22 languages, hundreds of dialects, and conversations that blend languages effortlessly. As part of ISB’s Market Positioning for AI Startups Study Trek, our first stop was Sarvam AI. What stood out was how they’re building AI that doesn’t just translate India, but understands it. 🗣️ Voice-first tools like Bulbul and Saaras handle code-mixed speech and accents seamlessly. ⚡ Their indigenous models and open APIs are making AI accessible beyond English speakers. 🤝 And their partnerships with UIDAI, NITI Aayog and Meta show how trust and localisation go hand in hand. It was a powerful reminder that AI adoption here will be driven by voice, trust and context—not just technology. Grateful to Saahil Khetan, the Sarvam team, and Indian School of Business for this extremely insightful session. 💭 Curious: what’s one uniquely Indian constraint you think could shape global AI? #IndiaAI #SarvamAI #VoiceFirstAI #Innovation #ISB #StudyTrek #AI #SovereignAI #ProductStrategy #DigitalTransformation

Africa + AI = A Future Redefined!  From smarter farms to lifesaving health tools, AI is rewriting the story of development across the continent. In this week’s dispatch, we unpack how artificial intelligence is powering change in: Agriculture Healthcare Education Financial inclusion The future is here—and it’s African-led.  👉 Read the full edition now: https://lnkd.in/duJkaiQv #AfricaRising #AIinAfrica #InnovationAfrica

The Economic Times- time for AI benchmarks is now... Nasscom is proposing local benchmarks for AI models built for Indian languages — a welcome and overdue push. Global leaderboards like Hugging Face prefer global companies who have invested in them, opaque datasets, and evaluation criteria that often leave many unfairly edged out. But this goes deeper than fairness. For AI in India (or any multilingual nation) to truly scale, we need benchmarks that reflect our dialects, code-mixed speech, cultural idioms, domain uses (medicine, finance, governance) — not just “English-first metrics.” At Shunya Labs, we’ve already seen this mismatch firsthand: Our Pingala speech model achieved 3.1% WER vs Nvidia’s 5.6% in voice benchmarks, yet it was excluded from the public leaderboard. We’ve been calling out the lack of transparency — “leaderboards that let anyone submit but don’t tell you how they evaluate you” is not justice in AI. What a local benchmark offers: A fair playing field for Indian, African, Southeast Asian speech models Trust and clarity for global investors & customers evaluating regional AI Acceleration of AI adoption: people building for local needs won’t be punished by irrelevant metrics To everyone building in Indic / regional AI — let’s support, influence, and co-create these benchmarks. Because the models of tomorrow won’t be imported — they’ll be born here, benchmarked here, and understood here. https://lnkd.in/g8saF4dW & www.shunyalabs.ai Ankit Bose Rajesh Nambiar Sangeeta Gupta Hugging Face NVIDIA AI Microsoft AI Google DeepMind Google Clem Delangue 🤗 Sourav Banerjee #AIInvestments #bestvoiceinfra #Voiceinfra #ASR #Automatedspeechrecognition

🚗💡 What happens when AI meets Ghanaian creativity? 🇬🇭 Here’s a short AI-generated FestRide promo video I created using Adobe Firefly, as part of my AI course with FestMan Learning Hub and AI Skills Africa. It’s amazing how tools like this can help us turn local stories into world-class visuals — powered by technology and imagination! 👇 What do you think about the future of AI in Ghana’s creative space? Share your thoughts in the comments after watching the output video using Image-video and Text-video generation mechanism! 💬 🎬 Ride Easy, Ride Ghana — powered by AI creativity. #AI #AdobeFirefly #FestRide #AICreativity #AISkillsAfrica #FestManLearningHub #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalCreativity #InnovationInAfrica #Ghana #AIEducation #FutureOfWork #AIinAfrica

We asked for AI for SMEs, they gave us AI porn: Complaints from Kampala How many times have you come across the word AI this week? I bet it’s probably the one topic you’ve seen the most. And that’s true for a lot of people right now. The truth is, AI is now part of our everyday life. It’s changing how we work, how we live, and very soon, even how we love. We’ve all seen the “adult content” announcement from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. I bet a certain hub didn’t see that one coming! AI is here to stay. But right now, there’s a lot of AI slop flying around. From half-baked writing to weird video generations, we’re seeing plenty of examples of AI being used wrong, or not used enough. Yet AI, if used right, could be a real game-changer. It could help Apio, a small shop owner in Kampala, run her business better and make more sales. It could help Emeka, an out-of-work youth in Lagos, start a micro ad agency that produces work Don Draper himself would admire. It could help Mohammed in Khartoum finally get a grip on that tough physics topic that’s been giving him sleepless nights. If people are trained to use AI properly, to actually get the most out of it, we could unlock something powerful across the continent. I once read that AI should do the boring stuff so we can stay creative. I like that. But it’s not going to happen unless we learn to use AI like a mathematician uses a calculator, as a thinking partner, not a replacement. Of course, it’s not easy. The first steps have to be taken. For us at 10X Hacks, that means teaching people how to actually use AI. Demystifying it for everyone, no matter what they do. Showing that with the right use of AI tools, you can grow 10x faster in your work or business. And this isn’t just another training. This is hands-on, real-world, learn-today apply-today kind of training. If you remember the “wash and wear” scene from the old Mr. Ibu film, then you know what I mean. #AI #10XHacks #Business