Smallest AI joins AI Grants to unleash modern voice models

Smallest AI, a leading provider of next-generation Voice AI models, on M onday 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: • Expand access to Voice AI models across 100+ hackathons and campus programs • Enable thousands of developers to build voice-native applications • Support early validation of voice-first startups emerging from AIGI • 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.