India’s AI usage concentrated in tech-heavy states: Anthropic executive Elizabeth KellyAt the AI Summit 2026, Anthropic executive Elizabeth Kelly said India ranks second globally in overall Claude usage, though per capita it s...
Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani commits second multi-year grant to AI4Bharat; total Rs 70 croreAI4Bharat aims to gather 15,000 hours of transcribed data from over 400 districts encompassing all 22 scheduled languages of India. In para...
People+ai’s Tanuj Bhojwani steps downEkStep Foundation cofounder and CEO Shankar Maruwada and policy and partnerships chief Deepika Mogilishetty will now take a more active rol...
Hyperscalers host EkStep digital public goods, build AI botTech giants Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud are providing cloud storage and services to make the digital public goods (DPGs) cre...
Google Cloud, EkStep Foundation partner to accelerate adoptions of Digital Public InfrastructureThe company statement said this will enable proof of concepts for creating and enhancing DPGs and DPIs, and identify Google Cloud products ...
India to become AI use case capital of the world: Nandan NilekaniNandan Nilekani's People+ai introduces 'Adbhut India' and OCC project, emphasizing frugal AI innovation in India. The initiatives aim to le...
People+ai partners with 24 tech organisations to enable open cloud compute infraAMD, Oracle, and various technology providers collaborate to address the increasing compute requirements. The partnership aims to enhance t...
AWS, EkStep Foundation partner to develop digital public goodsAmazon Web Services India and EkStep Foundation have established a Joint Innovation Center (JIC) to develop digital solutions for public se...
India should have its own contextual language model: ExpertsExperts at Nasscom Future Forge conclave on Tuesday, said that India needs its own contextual language model. Experts also proposed certain...
NCERT starts DIKSHA security audit after data breach reportsDiksha is a national platform for school education developed by Bengaluru-based EkStep Foundation. It is an initiative of the NCERT under t...
Techmeister’s tales: How these CTOs built robust processes from scratchChief technology officers are a predictable breed, usually. However, these tech wizards have built robust processes from scratch, erred on ...
Nandan Nilekani’s EkStep to be part of philanthropic venture by Bill and Melinda GatesThe venture’s initial core partners include Bill and Melinda Gates, Richard Chandler, Jeff Skoll, Dr Romesh and Kathy Wadhwani and the Rock...
Is India on its way to fix the abysmal state of its schools? Far from itThe real problem is not the calibre of our children. It is the competence of our teachers. That is the house of horrors we must defenestrat...
NIIT acquires EdTech startup, PerceptronPerceptron's acquisition will further look at building the multi-modal learning platform and 360 degree learning eco-system.
Nandan & Rohini Nilekani's 'world of good': How they are working on community-minded projects like EkStepTheir biggest initiative is EkStep, an education app that aspires to fix the learning challenges faced by India’s 200 million children betw...
Nandan is able to imagine scale in a way that is rare: Rohini Nilekani on working with him on EkStep"Many people advised me not to work with my husband. But we’ve taken that risk. So far, so good. We haven’t had too many fights yet," says ...
Nandan Nilekani may quit Congress to focus on education initiativeFormer Infosys co-founder Nilekani is expected to shortly quit the Congress to focus on a nationwide education initiative — EkStep.