Finnish phone-maker HMD bundles Indian AI chatbot onto new smartphone in push to reach local market
HMD is pre-loading Sarvam's Indus chatbot app, which supports 22 Indic languages
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- HMD is pre-loading Sarvam's Indus chatbot app, which supports 22 Indic languages
- Finnish phone-maker HMD bundles Indian AI chatbot onto new smartphone in push to reach local market
The stakes
- The Vibe 2 5G is a mid-range Android phone with a 6,000mAh battery and a price tag of ₹10,999($114)
- HMD held a 4% share of India’s feature phone market in 2025, but its smartphone share was negligible — the company doesn’t even appear in the top 15, according to analyst firm IDC
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HMD is pre-loading Sarvam's Indus chatbot app, which supports 22 Indic languages
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 m…
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- HMD is pre-loading Sarvam's Indus chatbot app, which supports 22 Indic languages
- Finnish phone-maker HMD bundles Indian AI chatbot onto new smartphone in push to reach local market
- 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
Why this matters
- The Vibe 2 5G is a mid-range Android phone with a 6,000mAh battery and a price tag of ₹10,999($114)
- HMD held a 4% share of India’s feature phone market in 2025, but its smartphone share was negligible — the company doesn’t even appear in the top 15, according to analyst firm IDC
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