I Tested Gemma 4 and GPT-4o-mini on Indian Language Tasks — The Results Surprised Me

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 I asked GPT-4o-mini to explain artificial intelligence in Bengali, as if teaching a 15-year-old student. It sent me back the original Bengali prompt. Word for word. That single moment — a major AI model completely failing a language spoken by 230 million people — is what this article is about. India has 1.4 billion people, 22 officially recognised languages, and hundreds of dialects. Yet nearly every AI benchmark is English-firs