AI startup Cognition in new funding talks at $40 billion valueCognition would be expected to raise over $1 billion in the round, Bloomberg reported. The company may still decide not to raise capital, o...
13 Aug, 2026, 06.22 PM IST
Anthropic to beat SpaceX? Investors bet on $2 trillion valuation in record IPOAnthropic is heading towards a potential record-breaking IPO, with investors reportedly expecting a valuation of more than $2 trillion as t...
13 Aug, 2026, 03.03 PM IST
Anthropic in talks to buy startup Decart AI for $6 billionDecart’s software can reduce the cost of training artificial intelligence models by helping chips work more efficiently. That technology co...
13 Aug, 2026, 09.09 AM IST
Explained: Sarvam AI's Indic benchmark to test voice AI across 22 Indian languagesThis launch addresses a major gap felt in the Indian AI ecosystem, especially voice models. AI voice tools have made rapid advancements in ...
12 Aug, 2026, 09.38 PM IST
Accel raises $3.5 billion to invest in emerging global AI startupsThe firm, which has backed artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, Cursor and Perplexity, has raised four separate funds ded...
12 Aug, 2026, 09.19 PM IST
AI startup Manus to resume independent operations as deal with Meta unwinds"As part of our transition back to independent operations and to comply with regulatory requirements in specific jurisdictions, data genera...
12 Aug, 2026, 12.16 AM IST
PayU India CEO on MDR; Qcomm’s festive hiringPayU India CEO Anirban Mukherjee has backed a simple pricing model for UPI charges. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
11 Aug, 2026, 08.48 PM IST
India Inc leans on hybrid AI strategy: A string of models for cost and controlIndian enterprises are moving towards hybrid AI to balance cost, performance & data sensitivity as frontier open-weight models narrow the g...
11 Aug, 2026, 10.11 AM IST
High AI stakes push Indian VCs to rejig funding playbooksAverage investments in AI startups have increased to $3-5 million at the seed level and upwards of $10 million in Series A rounds, said inv...
11 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
IIT Madras alumni’s Discovered Materials raises $9 million from Lightspeed, YC’s Paul Graham, Peak XVFounded by IIT Madras alumni Advait Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, the company believes today’s AI chips generate heat exceeding 140 watts per s...
10 Aug, 2026, 10.49 PM IST
Startups turn to lower-tier AI models to cut costs as frontier pricing risesThis is a departure from the early days, when companies trusted only the most powerful models regardless of cost. Now, founders are buildin...
09 Aug, 2026, 06.50 PM IST
Enterprise AI startup Wonderful plans to hire up to 1,000 forward-deployed engineers in IndiaLalazar said the company is approaching $100 million in annualised revenue, with headcount spread across more than 35 countries and set to ...
07 Aug, 2026, 07.27 PM IST
OpenAI’s Marc Manara says startups don’t need the smartest model, just the right oneOpenAI's AI model economics are shifting, with cost influencing startup strategies. Smaller models now perform well, freeing up resources f...
07 Aug, 2026, 10.32 AM IST
Sanjay Ghemawat, the Kota kid who spent decades at Google building large-scale computing, is now leaving to make an AI that can run thousands of experimentsSanjay Ghemawat, the Google scientist who grew up in Kota, Rajasthan, is leaving the company after nearly three decades. Ghemawat helped bu...
06 Aug, 2026, 04.37 PM IST
Nvidia bets on Sarvam AI; Sidbi eases fund rules for VCsHappy Wednesday! Sarvam’s Pratyush Kumar has confirmed adding Nvidia to the AI startup’s captable. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning ...
05 Aug, 2026, 09.12 AM IST
Activate joins Sarvam's $300 million funding round, eyes deeper AI partnershipBeyond the investment Activate and Sarvam plan to work together on three areas: supporting India's AI startup ecosystem, helping large digi...
04 Aug, 2026, 08.43 PM IST
AI startup Kily secures Rs 30 crore from Sorin Investments, Razorpay, WyserThe AI startup said that it plans to use the fresh capital to deepen Kily's product capabilities, strengthen its go-to market initiatives, ...
04 Aug, 2026, 08.00 PM IST