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Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which builds AI models for local languages, launches its Indus chat app in beta, powered by its Sarvam 105B model (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 21, 2026

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which builds AI models for local languages, is launching its Indus chat app in…

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Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a family of open models of 3.35 billion parameters supporting over 70 languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 17, 2026

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a family of open models of 3.35 billion parameters supporting over 70…

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Lotus, which uses AI to provide free 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35 million Series A led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, bringing its total funding to $41 million (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 3, 2026

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Lotus, which uses AI to provide free 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35…

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A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating datasets almost from scratch with community participation (Rest of World)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 22, 2025

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Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, to its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 11, 2025

Dominique Preston / The edge: Samsung is rolling out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-driven upgrade to its Bixby…

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How the AI translations of Wikipedia pages, which AI models use for training, can cause a spiral of misfortune that more marginalizes vulnerable languages (Jacob Judah / MIT Technology Review)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 26, 2025

Jacob Judah / MIT review of MIT technology:: How the AI translations of Wikipedia pages, which AI models use for…

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Sarvam Ai's 24b-Parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on the face of the embrace, which raises concerns concerning the efforts of the AI in India (Mohit Pandy / Analytics India Magazine)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 25, 2025

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A look at the Openeurollm project, a partnership between 20 EU organizations to develop open source LLM which support all the languages of the EU, with a budget of & Euro; 37.4m (Paul Sawers / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 17, 2025

Paul Sawers / Techcrunch:: An overview of the OpeneurollM project, a partnership between 20 EU organizations to develop open source…

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EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: Around 49% of consumers have used AI in the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)

Trump threatens to “impose significant tariffs on the UK” if he does not scrap his digital services tax, which he sees as unfairly targeting US tech companies (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)

Sources: AI coding company Cognition in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation of $25 billion, up from $10.2 billion announced in September 2025 (Bloomberg)

Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat second-quarter forecasts driven by strong demand for analog chips used in AI data centers (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1 million input tokens and $30/1 million output tokens, double the price of GPT-5.4; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1 million input tokens and $180/1 million output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Browsing: languages

Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which builds AI models for local languages, launches its Indus chat app in beta, powered by its Sarvam 105B model (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a family of open models of 3.35 billion parameters supporting over 70 languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Lotus, which uses AI to provide free 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35 million Series A led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, bringing its total funding to $41 million (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating datasets almost from scratch with community participation (Rest of World)

Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, to its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

How the AI translations of Wikipedia pages, which AI models use for training, can cause a spiral of misfortune that more marginalizes vulnerable languages (Jacob Judah / MIT Technology Review)

Sarvam Ai's 24b-Parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on the face of the embrace, which raises concerns concerning the efforts of the AI in India (Mohit Pandy / Analytics India Magazine)

A look at the Openeurollm project, a partnership between 20 EU organizations to develop open source LLM which support all the languages of the EU, with a budget of & Euro; 37.4m (Paul Sawers / Techcrunch)