Hello, fellow creators!
If AI is the transformative technology many of us believe it to be, we should have the power to decide how it transforms our own lives.
That was the premise behind Suno Sutra: the personal AI computing device we developed in partnership with Bhashini, facilitated by Kalpa Impact, and launched at the India AI Summit.
At launch, we showed the Suno Sutra device with a translation application: the device works entirely offline, detects, transcribes and translates its surroundings and supports 22 Indic languages. But more than a device, Suno Sutra is a platform to enable builders and communities to create their own AI to solve their own problems, in their own language, for their own culture.
Which brings us to our invitation to collaborate.
Today, we unveil the VYOMA Innovation Challenge: An Open-Source Multilingual Handheld AI Innovation Challenge, which invites hardware and software hackers, inventors, linguists, and researchers in India to extend, modify, and reimagine what this device could be.
The challenge launched virtually on 1 June 2026. Twenty teams will receive free Suno Sutra developer kits – hardware shipped directly to them – along with mentorship from Bhashini and Current AI and a chance to win up to INR 80 Lakh ($83,000) in prizes.
There are two tracks in the challenge: take it apart and build (create applications and tools on top of the device) and re-engineer (modify hardware and optimize it for real-world use). Register and apply here. Applications open 1 June through 15 July.
The Current AI x Bhashini partnership is our first collaborative build and part of our mission to build a collaborative, collective, and global vision for AI, not one controlled by any single country or company.
The VYOMA Innovation Challenge is supported by Kalpa Impact as a knowledge and implementation partner.
We’re excited to provide some ingredients to our community, but even more excited to see what you’ll invent.
– Ayah