KOGO & MapMyIndia unveil AI-powered universal voice assistant for automotive sector
Indian AI start-up KOGO and digital mapping company
MapMyIndia have launched India’s first universal voice assistant for the
automotive industry, introducing a proprietary technology that enables AI
agents to communicate with each other - a capability previously unavailable in
existing voice assistants.
The technology has already
attracted significant interest from automotive manufacturers, with KOGO
currently in discussions with six OEMs - two in India and four internationally.
While specific names weren’t disclosed due to non-disclosure agreements, the
company projects $4.5 million in implementations over the next four to six
months as deployments begin.
Raj
K. Gopalakrishnan, CEO of KOGO, explained, “Imagine a car that plans your
entire day, from booking flights to paying bills, with just a voice
command—this isn’t science fiction; it’s the future, and it’s here”. The VA was
launched at the recently concluded Bharat Auto Expo 2025.
“The
agentic mesh is the breakthrough technology that we have created. This enables
multiple agents to talk to each other on a one-on-one basis directly,” he said.
“We are ahead of the curve. We are ahead of all the big boys. And because we’re
agile and we’re a small company, we’re very R&D focused.”
The mesh technology
functions like a team of AI experts passing conversations to one another. “A
year down the line you will see that most of the technology layer that really
operates any smart car is going to be based on KOGO’s agentic mesh,” Gopalakrishnan
said.
The
system is designed to handle increasingly complex interactions. “Today, I can
ask the weather, I can ask you to book a ticket for me,” Gopalakrishnan
explained. “But what if I tell the agent, can you check if there is fog in
Delhi the day after tomorrow? If there is no fog in Delhi, then, can you book
an airline ticket for me? I would like to leave in the evening and my preferred
airline is a specific airline. And if the first row is available, book me on
the first row.” While current functionality focuses on completing individual
tasks, future updates will enable the system to handle broader goals and
complex nested instructions.
The
partnership with MapMyIndia, which also holds a stake in KOGO, brings crucial
geo-intelligence capabilities to the platform. “MapMyIndia is also a customer
of KOGO and a partner where we go with a common go-to-market for the automotive
and mobility industry because MapMyIndia is the leader in the enterprise B2B
mobility, navigation and automotive space,” explained Gopalakrishnan.
Unlike
traditional voice assistants limited to basic commands, KOGO’s solution
operates through fine-tuned small language models that work on-premise and at
the edge, ensuring data privacy and security. “People do not want to send their
data to an LLM because this is all private data, private preferences. So we
have an inferencing layer that creates small language models which are
fine-tuned models,” Gopalakrishnan noted.
Praveer
Kochhar, Chief Product Officer and co-founder of KOGO, revealed that the
platform is currently in beta, with enterprise access planned for mid-February.
“What we are improving over the next few months is basically handling complex
problems. Today, the system handles tasks. In the near future, it should be able
to handle certain goals as well,” he said.
The
technology’s applications extend beyond automotive to various sectors including
insurance, banking, financial services, healthcare, and defense. “A large
enterprise will be able to build their own agents, multi-agent systems that can
do large process automations for them,” Praveer added.
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