What is the last date for the Great Indian AI Internship Challenge?

Final submissions close at 11:59 PM IST on 10 November 2026. The challenge opened on 1 October 2026. You can edit your project details until you submit.

Up to ₹1 lakh a month for each intern, for six months. That is a ceiling, not a fixed amount. Your written offer sets the exact figure, and teammates never split a stipend.

Students currently enrolled in a degree or course at a college or university in India, aged 18 or over on the day they register. You can enter alone or in a team of two.

Is there a problem statement?

No. Gnani.ai says the brief is open. You build any working application that uses at least one Gnani.ai model or API.

Gnani.ai's page does not say. Its answer on cost only says each participant gets 5,000 programme credits to build with. Read the terms on its registration page before you enter.

How are interns selected?

Gnani.ai shortlists eligible projects with the strongest verified engagement on their public demo posts. Each shortlisted person is interviewed alone. Only a written offer confirms an internship.

When does the internship start?

Internships are scheduled to start from 1 January 2027 and run for six months. Location and working arrangements are confirmed in each written offer.

How can I make my demo stand out?

This is our advice, not Gnani.ai's. Show the app working on a real task in the first ten seconds. Use an Indian language or code-mixed speech, since that is what the models are built for. Keep it short.

I am not selected. Where else can I find a paid AI internship?

insiderOne lists paid AI and machine learning internships in India, many of them remote, each with its stipend. You can also prove your machine learning skill with a free Skill Challenge.

Is insiderOne part of the Great Indian AI Internship Challenge?

No. insiderOne is an independent guide and is not affiliated with Gnani.ai. A company appearing here does not mean it partners with or endorses insiderOne. You register only through Gnani.ai's own page.

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Gnani.ai's Great Indian AI Internship Challenge: who can enter, what it pays, and the last date

Gnani.ai's Great Indian AI Internship Challenge offers up to 100 paid six-month internships, with stipends up to ₹1 lakh a month. Final submissions close at 11:59 PM IST on 10 November 2026.

It is open to students enrolled in India, aged 18 or over, building alone or in a team of two. You build a working app on at least one Gnani.ai model or API, then post a public demo.

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Checked against the official sources below on 27 October 2026. insiderOne is an independent guide, not affiliated with any scheme or programme here. Official pages come first.

What the challenge is
Key dates
Who can enter
Stipend
What to build
How to enter
How interns are selected
Paid internships open today

What the challenge is

A contest run by Gnani.ai, a company that builds speech and language models for Indian languages. Students build an app on its models, and the prize is a paid internship.

Gnani.ai builds its own speech and language models, trained on real telephonic audio. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Models trained in India, for Indian speech
Up to 100 paid six-month internships are on offer. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Top of the page
There are also ten awards of ₹50,000 each for standout builds, ₹5 lakh in all. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Ten awards for standout builds
No individual or team can win more than one award. Awards are decided apart from internship selection. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Ten awards for standout builds
Gnani.ai may modify, suspend or cancel any part of the contest, including rules, timelines and prizes, as its terms set out. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, The rules that matter most

Key dates: closes 10 November 2026

The challenge opened on 1 October 2026. Final submissions close at 11:59 PM IST on 10 November 2026. Internships start from 1 January 2027.

Registration opened and the build window started on 1 October 2026. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Key dates
Final submissions close at 11:59 PM IST on 10 November 2026. Gnani.ai calls the deadline fixed. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Key dates, and The rules that matter most, rule 5
You can edit your project details until you make your final submission. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, The rules that matter most, rule 5
After the close, shortlisted participants are interviewed one by one. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Key dates
The paid six-month internships are scheduled to begin on 1 January 2027. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Key dates

Who can enter

Students enrolled in India, aged 18 or over, alone or in a team of two.

You must be currently enrolled in a degree or course at a college or university in India. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Who can apply
You must be 18 or older on the day you register. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Who can apply
You can build alone, or with one teammate who meets the same conditions. Teams cannot be larger than two. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Who can apply, Solo or a team of two
Each participant or team can submit one entry. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Questions before you register

Stipend: up to ₹1 lakh a month

Each selected intern gets their own stipend of up to ₹1 lakh a month. It is a ceiling, and the written offer sets the amount.

The stipend is up to ₹1 lakh per intern, per month. The figure is a ceiling, not a fixed amount. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Questions before you register, How does the stipend work
Stipends are paid per intern and never split between teammates. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, The rules that matter most, rule 1
Your exact stipend appears in your written offer. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Questions before you register, How does the stipend work
Location and working arrangements are also confirmed in each written offer. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Questions before you register, When and how does the internship run

What to build

Any working application that uses at least one Gnani.ai model or API. There is no set problem statement.

The brief is open. There is no set problem statement. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, The rules that matter most, rule 2
Your project must use at least one Gnani.ai model or API, and your submission names which ones. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Register, build, post, submit
The models listed are Prisma v2.5 (speech to text), Timbre v2.5 (text to speech, in beta) and Evon v3.3 (open-weight reasoning). The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Models trained in India, for Indian speech
Evon v3.3 is not on the API platform yet. Its weights can be requested on Hugging Face. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Questions before you register, How do I use Evon
You build on Gnani.ai's API platform at app.gnani.ai/voice, with docs at docs.gnani.ai. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Questions before you register, Where do I build
Each registration gets 5,000 programme credits. For a team, they go to the primary registrant's account. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Everything you need to ship
Its example ideas include a Kannada crop advisory helpline for farmers and a Hinglish phone-order assistant for a kirana store. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Need a starting point?
Use synthetic data. Never put real phone numbers, account numbers, Aadhaar, PAN or recorded calls in your project or demo. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Questions before you register, How is my data handled

How to enter: a checklist before 10 November 2026

Register with your name, email, phone, college, degree, year of study and city, and your teammate's email if you have one. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Register, build, post, submit, step 1
Record a video of your application working. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Register, build, post, submit, step 3
Post it on LinkedIn, X or both, explaining what you built and the Gnani.ai technology used. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Register, build, post, submit, step 3
Tag Gnani AI and add #GreatIndianAIInternshipChallenge and #GnaniAI to the post. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Register, build, post, submit, step 3
Submit your demo video, a written project explanation, the models or APIs you used, and one post link per platform. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Register, build, post, submit, step 4
The explanation covers the problem, who will use it, and each team member's contribution. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Register, build, post, submit, step 2
Tagging alone does not complete your entry. You must nominate the post in your submission. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, Register, build, post, submit, step 3

How interns are selected

Verified engagement on your public demo decides the shortlist. Your skills and your interview decide the offer.

Gnani.ai checks reactions, comments and reshares on your nominated posts, recorded by the closing cutoff. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, From submission to written offer, step 1
Entries must show genuine use of Gnani.ai technology and meet the participation rules. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, From submission to written offer, step 2
The eligible projects with the strongest verified engagement are shortlisted for interview. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, From submission to written offer, step 3
Every shortlisted person is interviewed alone, including both members of a team. One teammate can be selected without the other. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, From submission to written offer, step 4
An internship is confirmed only by a written offer from Gnani.ai after the interviews. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, The rules that matter most
Bought engagement, bots, paid promotion, engagement swaps, plagiarism and misleading demos are not allowed, and can disqualify an entry. The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai, The rules that matter most, rule 6

Paid AI internships in India open today

These AI and machine learning internships in India state a stipend and are open on insiderOne now. They are not part of Gnani.ai's challenge. Counted at 31 October at 3:08 am, India time: 24 paid internships open today. Best-paid first.

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Questions students ask about the Great Indian AI Internship Challenge

What is the last date for the Great Indian AI Internship Challenge?: Final submissions close at 11:59 PM IST on 10 November 2026. The challenge opened on 1 October 2026. You can edit your project details until you submit.
What is the stipend?: Up to ₹1 lakh a month for each intern, for six months. That is a ceiling, not a fixed amount. Your written offer sets the exact figure, and teammates never split a stipend.
Who can take part?: Students currently enrolled in a degree or course at a college or university in India, aged 18 or over on the day they register. You can enter alone or in a team of two.
Is there a problem statement?: No. Gnani.ai says the brief is open. You build any working application that uses at least one Gnani.ai model or API.
Is it free to enter?: Gnani.ai's page does not say. Its answer on cost only says each participant gets 5,000 programme credits to build with. Read the terms on its registration page before you enter.
How are interns selected?: Gnani.ai shortlists eligible projects with the strongest verified engagement on their public demo posts. Each shortlisted person is interviewed alone. Only a written offer confirms an internship.
When does the internship start?: Internships are scheduled to start from 1 January 2027 and run for six months. Location and working arrangements are confirmed in each written offer.
How can I make my demo stand out?: This is our advice, not Gnani.ai's. Show the app working on a real task in the first ten seconds. Use an Indian language or code-mixed speech, since that is what the models are built for. Keep it short.
I am not selected. Where else can I find a paid AI internship?: insiderOne lists paid AI and machine learning internships in India, many of them remote, each with its stipend. You can also prove your machine learning skill with a free Skill Challenge.
Is insiderOne part of the Great Indian AI Internship Challenge?: No. insiderOne is an independent guide and is not affiliated with Gnani.ai. A company appearing here does not mean it partners with or endorses insiderOne. You register only through Gnani.ai's own page.

Sources

The Great Indian AI Internship Challenge, Gnani.ai. Gnani.ai's official page for the challenge. It says the programme terms on its registration page are the final word.

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