AI4Bharat at IIT Madras and Josh Talks AI have unveiled a multimodal AI evaluation platform, part of a broader trend in India where AI addresses development challenges such as farming, education, TB screening, and multilingual government services. According to MeitY, India’s digital economy contributed Rs 31.6 lakh crore, or 11.7 per cent of the GDP, in 2022-23, with that share expected to approach one-fifth by 2030. Microsoft’s Shiksha Copilot, developed with the Shikshana Foundation using Azure OpenAI Service, helps around 1,000 teachers prepare lesson plans for nearly 30,000 children across 750 govt schools in Karnataka, reducing preparation time to about 10 minutes, and is expected to expand to another 8,000 teachers. Microsoft also plans to train 10 million Indians in AI by 2030 after achieving an earlier target of skilling 2 million people. Farmer.Chat by Digital Green provides local-language advice and expanded from 15,000 to 250,000 Indian users within a year, costing less than $1 per farmer annually, and reduced the cost of introducing a new farming practice from $35 to under $1. Wadhwani AI’s tools have reached more than 190 million people, prioritised over 35,000 villages for TB screening, supported nearly 2.7 lakh teachers, delivered learning support to 7.9 million students,