March 2nd, 2026 : Smallest AI, a
leading provider of next-generation Voice AI models, today announced a
collaboration with AI Grants India (AIGI) to provide free access to
Smallest’s state-of-the-art Voice AI infrastructure for thousands of
early-stage builders across India.
Through this initiative,
developers, students, hacker houses, and early-stage founders supported by AI
Grants India will gain direct access to Smallest AI’s advanced Voice AI models,
enabling them to build conversational agents, voice-native applications, AI
copilots, multilingual assistants, and next-generation human-computer
interfaces without infrastructure or cost barriers.
Smallest AI’s goal is clear: unleash
voice AI creativity from India to the world.
AI Grants India, co-founded by Bhasker
Kode and Vaibhav Domkundwar, is India’s first large-scale AI-focused
nonprofit designed to remove the number one barrier facing ambitious builders:
access. AIGI provides free inference and API access to premium AI models for
hackathons, indie developers, students, and idea-stage startups.
In just a few months, AIGI has:
Enabled 1,500+ active
builders
Supported 100+ idea-stage AI
startups
Facilitated 1B+ tokens
across platforms such as OpenAI and Anthropic
Partnered with leading
institutions including IITs, BITS Pilani, IIIT Hyderabad, and Network School
Helped launch emerging startups
such as Mindloop, Pulse, Mixio, Embedr, Kenesis, Zuve Studio, and 45D AI
With Smallest AI’s Voice AI
capabilities now available through AIGI, builders can experiment with speech
synthesis, multilingual voice agents, voice-first SaaS tools, and AI-native
call automation without worrying about API pricing or deployment constraints.
“Voice will be one of the most important
interfaces of the AI era, especially in a country as linguistically diverse as
India,” said Sudarshan Kamath, Founder and CEO, Smallest AI. “By working with
AI Grants India, we are ensuring that the most ambitious early builders in
India can experiment with and deploy state-of-the-art Voice AI from day one.”
Over the next 12 to 18 months, the collaboration aims
to:
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Expand access to Voice AI models
across 100+ hackathons and campus programs
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Enable thousands of developers
to build voice-native applications
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Support early validation of
voice-first startups emerging from AIGI
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Showcase real-world use cases
built on Smallest AI infrastructure
“India’s next wave of AI innovation will
not just be text-based. It will be multimodal and voice-native,” said Bhasker
Kode, Co-founder of AI Grants India. “Smallest AI’s support allows our builders
to experiment freely with cutting-edge voice technology and accelerate from
idea to working product.”
This initiative reflects a
broader shift toward making foundational AI infrastructure accessible at the
earliest stages of experimentation. By bringing Voice AI directly to
hackathons, student labs, and indie developers, Smallest AI is helping
cultivate the next generation of AI-native founders across India.
About Smallest AI
Smallest AI builds
state-of-the-art Voice AI models and infrastructure that enable developers and
enterprises to deploy scalable, multilingual, human-like voice interfaces. The
company’s mission is to make advanced voice technology accessible and
programmable for the AI-native future.
About AI Grants India
Co-founded by Bhasker “Bosky”
Kode and Vaibhav Domkundwar, AI Grants India Foundation is India’s first
large-scale AI-focused nonprofit aimed at providing inference, infrastructure,
grants, and resources to unlock India’s next generation of AI builders. AIGI’s
free, frictionless API access has already enabled billions of tokens in usage
across early-stage startups, indie developers, and academic projects.
Learn more at: https://aigrants.in
