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Gnani.ai launches Prisma v2.5 speech model
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- Date
- Company
- Gnani.ai
- What it does
- Indic speech AI startup
- Kind
- Launch
- Founded
- 2016
- Sector
- AI & Deep Tech
What they do
Gnani.ai builds voice AI models for Indian languages
What happened
The company launched Prisma v2.5 with API access for 12 languages
Why it matters
This follows a $10 million Series B funding round in March 2026
The details
- Gnani.ai launched Prisma v2.5, its latest speech-to-text model.
- The new model supports 12 languages and handles dialects and noise.
- It offers API access for developers to integrate voice capabilities.
- The launch follows previous products like Vachana STT and Inya.
- Gnani.ai claims outperformance against global competitors on accuracy benchmarks.
- The system features lower latency than international alternatives.
- Data is hosted on local Indian data centres for sovereignty.
- The company plans expansion into Japan and the Philippines.
The bigger picture
- US export controls highlight risks of using non-local AI tools.
- Gnani.ai participates in the government-backed IndiaAI Mission.
- Local hosting ensures data privacy and regulatory compliance.
About the business
- Gnani.ai focuses on proprietary training data for Indic speech.
- It utilizes 14 million hours of telephonic audio recordings.
- The target gaps include short utterances and domain vocabulary.
- Key verticals include BFSI, insurance, and healthcare sectors.
- Products support CRM logging and agent assistance workflows.
- The platform achieves under 200ms P95 latency.
- It processes over 30 million daily interactions.
- Gnani.ai supports deployment in air-gapped environments.
What happens next
- Gnani.ai aims to expand into global markets.
- Plans include entering Japan and the Middle East.
- The company will focus on customer base expansion.
Founders
- Ganesh Gopalan, CEO
About Gnani.ai
- Product
- Generative AI voice agents and sovereign AI stack for enterprise automation
- Customers
- Large enterprises and customer-facing businesses in BFSI, telecom, ecommerce, and healthcare
- How it makes money
- B2B SaaS providing AI voice and agentic AI platform for enterprise workflows
- What sets it apart
- Proprietary models trained natively across 11 Indian languages with sovereign data control
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