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The brief · 18 February 2026

The AI brief, 2026-02-18

Today, AI is on the hunt for diseases and words. A pharmacy school has set it loose tracking Alzheimer's, while India is using it to finally speak its own languages.

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India rolls out its own AI models, built for its languages

Sarvam AI just unveiled two open models designed from the ground up for Hindi, Tamil, and other Indian languages, not bolted on as afterthought translations from English. If you work with non-English-speaking users, these regional models are worth watching as they start closing the gap with the generic giants. India is also adding voice and vision models trained on the same foundations.

practitioners › Sarvam-30B (MoE, 32k context) and Sarvam-105B (MoE, 128k context), trained from scratch, announced February 18 at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, open-source release to follow.

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