Govt identifies 20 indigenous AI foundation model proposals under IndiaAI Mission: ParliamentIndia's government is supporting twenty indigenous sovereign AI model proposals. These include twelve large and eight small language models...
22 Jul, 2026, 06.16 PM IST
ETMarkets Smart Talk | India’s indirect AI play could create wealth in power, data centres and capital goods: Hiren VedIndia's AI boom offers indirect opportunities in infrastructure and power sectors. Foreign institutional investors are shifting allocations...
18 Jul, 2026, 09.38 AM IST
Fundamentum launches Rs 2,200 crore growth fund with Nandan Nilekani as anchor LPNandan Nilekani will be anchoring Fundamentum Fund III with what the firm described as his largest investment in a venture capital firm. Th...
09 Jul, 2026, 11.27 PM IST
IT services growth likely to stay soft in near term as clients delay discretionary spends: EquirusIndia's major IT firms anticipate a subdued first quarter, with growth expected to pick up only when clients shift from cost-cutting to AI-...
05 Jul, 2026, 09.59 AM IST
HDFC Bank develops own AI platform, fraud monitoring systemHDFC Bank is transforming into a tech powerhouse, developing its own AI platform, Neev, and a real-time fraud detection system. These in-ho...
03 Jul, 2026, 12.27 AM IST
The future of AI may be small, cheap and unprofitable: Joachim KlementA groundbreaking study indicates that lightweight AI models installed on everyday home computers are on the verge of surpassing the robust ...
18 Jun, 2026, 12.43 PM IST
Indian startups turn to small language models to solve for efficiency, privacy, costIndian startups are shifting to smaller AI models. This move addresses high cloud costs, patchy internet, and new data privacy laws. These ...
30 Mar, 2026, 03.01 PM IST
Zetwerk's pre-IPO move; War hits your deliveriesHappy Monday! Zetwerk is in talks to raise pre-IPO funding. This and more in today's ETtech Morning Dispatch.
30 Mar, 2026, 01.30 PM IST
India’s SLM moment: Why Budget support is crucial for home-grown AI modelsIndia Budget: India's AI ambitions hinge on developing indigenous Small Language Models (SLMs) tailored for local needs, rather than solely...
18 Jan, 2026, 04.54 PM IST
India’s Agent AI Revolution: How Gnani.ai Is Transforming Enterprise AutomationIndia is at an inflection point in enterprise AI, with voice and agent automation redefining how companies operate. In this conversation wi...
12 Dec, 2025, 09.07 PM IST
BharatGen bets on small models to hit big AI goalsAn academic consortium based out of IIT Bombay, BharatGen last week secured the largest government support under the India AI Mission — Rs ...
24 Sep, 2025, 07.48 PM IST
NVIDIA says 'Small Language Models' are the future of AI, but why isn’t anyone switching yet? The $57 billion reason may surprise youNVIDIA's research challenges the prevailing belief that bigger AI models are always better, suggesting that Small Language Models (SLMs) co...
25 Aug, 2025, 04.58 PM IST
IT companies building small and micro language models to cut costsSuch models, optimised for a specific function, are offering faster response time at lower costs helping enterprises and software service p...
12 Feb, 2025, 04.35 PM IST
Small language models set to be the next big thing in AILarge language models (LLMs), SLMs can generate human-like language but are trained on smaller datasets with fewer parameters. They are sai...
01 Jan, 2025, 11.43 AM IST
Infosys launches small language models built on Nvidia AI stackSLMs are trained on smaller (specific), and higher quality data than large language models (LLMs). The IT major added, these models are dev...
24 Oct, 2024, 10.19 PM IST
How small language models offer clues on customer psycheA few local companies are working on developing small language models (SLM), which are trained on smaller datasets and have limited capabil...
26 Dec, 2023, 12.28 PM IST
Microsoft launches robust AI 'small language model' for researchersMicrosoft has released its newest compact "small language model" titled Phi-2 that continues to perform at par or better than certain large...
17 Dec, 2023, 12.14 PM IST