AI Is for Everyone: Empowering Rural India with Indigenous AI | Usha Rengaraju | Josh Talks

AI Is for Everyone: Empowering Rural India with Indigenous AI | Usha Rengaraju | Josh Talks It took years of practice to master communication — but today, Artificial Intelligence is changing the way India learns, builds, and grows. In this powerful talk at the India AI Impact Summit, Usha Rengaraju explains how advancements in Indic AI models are making education and technology accessible to everyone — even in the most remote villages of India. From enabling students to study engineering in their own language to building sovereign AI systems for the Global South, this conversation highlights why India’s AI journey must focus on: • Sovereign Compute • Sovereign Data • Indigenous AI Models • Inclusion across linguistic and cultural diversity Building AI for India is not easy — capturing the nuances of our diversity requires intention, representation, and responsibility. This talk emphasizes why AI must be inclusive, accessible, and designed for Bharat. Watch this inspiring session from the India AI Impact Summit on Josh Talks and explore how AI can truly become a tool for shared progress. #UshaRengaraju #IndiaAI #AIForIndia #IndicAI #SovereignAI #JoshTalks #AIImpactSummit #DigitalIndia #GlobalSouth #ArtificialIntelligence Follow Josh Talks On https://www.facebook.com/JoshTalksLive https://www.instagram.com/JoshTalksLive https://www.twitter.com/JoshTalksLive • • • Disclaimer The views, information, opinions, and beliefs expressed in this video are personal to the speaker and are expressed in good faith. Josh Talks is not, in any manner, supporting or endorsing the views, information, opinions, and beliefs of the speaker. Josh Talks is merely, in good faith, providing a platform and a channel for a diverse group of speakers to share their knowledge and learnings for general educational purposes only. Josh Talks is not responsible, and does not guarantee the accuracy, validity, or completeness of the views, information, opinions, and beliefs expressed by the speaker. Nothing in this video constitutes advice of any kind or manner. Viewers are encouraged to exercise their discretion in watching or hearing this video, and to conduct their own due diligence before taking any action based on this video. Those who take any action on the basis of the concepts and ideas presented in this video do so at their own risk. Josh Talks does not wish to create any rumors, offend any religion, community or individual, or disrespect any person or hurt their sentiments in any manner whatsoever. #joshtalks #UshaRengaraju #IndiaAIImpactSummit #AIForIndia #IndicAI #SovereignAI #IndigenousAI #AIInEducation #DigitalIndia #GlobalSouth #InclusiveAI #RuralInnovation #AIRevolution #TechForGood #JoshTalks #BharatTech