Finnish phone-maker HMD bundles Indian AI chatbot onto new smartphone in push to reach local market
HMD has launched the Vibe 2 5G smartphone in India, featuring the Indus AI chatbot developed by Sarvam. This partnership aims to enhance accessibility to AI technology in a linguistically diverse market. The Vibe 2 5G is priced at ₹10,999 and is part of a strategy to increase HMD's presence in the Indian smartphone market.
- ▪HMD's Vibe 2 5G smartphone comes preloaded with the Indus AI chatbot from Sarvam.
- ▪The Indus app supports 22 Indic languages and allows mid-sentence code-switching.
- ▪HMD aims to increase its market share in India, where it currently holds a 4% share in the feature phone market.
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Finnish phone maker HMD today launched its first smartphone, called the Vibe 2 5G, which comes preloaded with Indian AI company Sarvam’s chatbot Indus. Both companies had first announced the partnership during the India AI summit held in New Delhi in February. The Indus app is powered by Sarvam’s locally trained 105-billion-parameter model — a measure of the AI’s scale and sophistication — and launched at the AI summit. The app supports 22 Indic languages and mid-sentence code-switching (the ability to fluidly mix languages mid-conversation, like switching between Hindi and English), which helps the assistant better understand the context of a query.
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