A new contender has emerged from India—Xanfi, similar to chat Gpt, is a generative AI-powered chatbot that speaks more than 100 languages, including all 22 official Indian languages.
Launched recently at IIT Delhi, promoted by entrepreneur Pearl Kapur and developed by Zedgo 365 Technologies Pvt Ltd,
Xanfi is a newly built AI chatbot, with a strong focus on multilingual communication and local relevance, aiming to make generative AI tools more accessible to a wider audience across India.
Xanfi was launched at IIT Delhi and signaled India’s aspiration to lead in building AI solutions that resonate with local cultures and languages while also serving a global audience. Kapur, while introducing Xanfi, put it succinctly.
“While the ecosystem is busy building food and grocery delivery apps, we are delivering intelligence, creativity, and knowledge.”
Offerings of Xanfi
Xanfi is a real-time, generative AI assistant capable of answering complex queries, generating written and visual content, and offering insights across diverse areas such as:
- Content creation (blogs, video scripts, captions)
- Market & financial analysis
- Legal & astrological consultations
- Relationship advice
- AI art generation in a distinctive Ghibli-inspired style
What sets Xanfi apart is its strong multilingual capability. It supports over 100 languages, with deep integration of Indian cultural and linguistic contexts—something few global AI models can claim. This means someone in a remote part of India can interact with the chatbot in Maithili, Assamese, or Marathi as seamlessly as someone else using English or Hindi.
Built for India, Ready for the World
As claimed, the key differentiator is the dataset used to train Xanfi. Xanfi claims that it is developed using Indian datasets to enhance its performance on local queries. This gives it an edge in understanding cultural references, regional nuances, and language intricacies that even some of the most popular global platforms often overlook.
- Xanfi is currently free and offers a wide range of services out of the box. Even its full-featured premium plan, if opted for, is priced at just Rs 299 per month, making it more accessible to students, rural users, and small businesses.
Xanfi will gain traction and challenges will crop up like user retention, regulatory compliance and data privacy, will be critical challenges as the tool gains traction. Xanfi’s strength will depend on scalability will depend on how well the tool adapts to the ever-evolving expectations of a diverse user base.
India’s investments in AI are significant—Rs 5,000 crore allocated in 2024 alone to advance AI research, education, and infrastructure.
Indian cities like Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Delhi are becoming hubs for AI talent and startups. Meanwhile, Indian government initiatives like NITI Aayog’s National AI Strategy are aimed at integrating AI into healthcare, education, and smart city development, while simultaneously advocating for ethical standards in its use.
This regulatory gap raises serious concerns about how AI systems collect, process, and store user data.
Xanfi is free to use, at least for now, making advanced AI capabilities accessible to people far beyond India’s urban elite or English-speaking population.
While competitors like ChatGPT or similar cater largely to global audiences with premium models and English-first logic, Xanfi builds from the ground up with inclusivity as a design principle, not an afterthought.
Tools like Xanfi could help ensure that future isn’t limited to the urban, English-speaking few, and reflects a product launch—it represents a growing aspiration within India’s startup ecosystem to think bigger, deeper, and more inclusively.
