Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw discusses manufacturing of sovereign, high-end GPUs in India with Nvidia officialsIndia is stepping up plans to build its own graphics processors after talks between minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Nvidia executives. The di...
09 Jan, 2026, 10.04 AM IST
ET Graphics: AI Summit lays out red carpet for India’s sovereign AI dreamsAs India accelerates efforts to build a sovereign AI stack, a dozen startups and institutions backed by the government’s IndiaAI Mission ar...
09 Jan, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
PM meets Indian AI start-ups leaders, stresses on ethical, impartial, transparent modelsPrime Minister Narendra Modi met with 12 Indian AI startups. He stressed that Indian AI models must champion local content and regional lan...
08 Jan, 2026, 10.03 PM IST
PM Modi chairs roundtable with select startups ahead of India AI Impact SummitPrime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a roundtable discussion with 12 shortlisted startups under the foundational model pillar of the India ...
08 Jan, 2026, 08.23 PM IST
Anthropic follows in OpenAI's footsteps for India forayAI major Anthropic is expanding its global footprint, including hiring a country lead for India, as it triples its international workforce....
28 Sep, 2025, 12.05 PM IST
Eight firms selected for incentives to develop foundational AI modelsAnnouncing the names, electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw also said that administrative rules under the Digita...
18 Sep, 2025, 06.44 PM IST
The great Indic data huntRace to build Indic models has heated up, but challenge over availability of Indic language data persists.
16 Sep, 2025, 11.17 AM IST
Government to declare Round 2 beneficiaries of Rs 1,500 crore AI mission next weekAvataar.ai, TechMahindra, Fractal Analytics, Genloop, IntelliHealth, Shodha AI, and Zenteiq Aitech Innovations are likely to be selected. U...
12 Sep, 2025, 06.28 PM IST
Gemini app crosses 450 million monthly active users, says Google executiveThis follows the tech giant giving free access to its premium Google AI Pro plan, which costs Rs 19,500 per year, to college students aged ...
26 Jul, 2025, 04.05 PM IST
Google’s AI model Gemini 2.5 Flash to support local processing of dataThis is part of broader efforts from Google as it continues to invest and grow its footprint in India, Google Cloud Asia Pacific vice-presi...
24 Jul, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Google unveils major AI initiatives for India, localising Gemini and boosting developer ecosystemDuring the event, the key announcement was the localisation of onshore processing for Gemini 2.5 Flash, bringing faster, low-latency AI per...
23 Jul, 2025, 08.15 PM IST
Sarvam AI will open source its IndiaAI Mission AI modelsThe company has received the highest subsidy allocated under the IndiaAI Mission so far at Rs 98.68 crore, out of a bill of Rs 246.71 crore...
16 Jul, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
India AI Mission: 43 of 506 foundational AI model proposals target large language modelsAs part of the mission, the government is incentivising the development of LLMs built by startups such as Sarvam, Gnani, Gan and Soket AI L...
29 Jun, 2025, 11.23 AM IST
After Sarvam.ai, Soket AI, Gnani.ai, Gan.ai to now build foundation AI models, says IndiaAI MissionThe IndiaAI Compute portal now has 34,000 GPUs, sourced from Nvidia, AMD, AWS, and Intel. In the second round of the GPU tender, seven tech...
30 May, 2025, 08.59 PM IST
Sarvam and three other AI firms in MeitY’s LLM build out first shortlistSoket AI Labs’ founder Abhishek Upperwal said it has proposed to create a 120-billion parameter open-source Indic LLM (large language model...
24 Apr, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Sops, DeepSeek drive local firms to work on foundation AI modelsThe government’s subsidised common compute facility and opening for grants and funding under the IndiaAI Mission have also spurred energy a...
03 Feb, 2025, 06.14 PM IST
Startups take to LLMs to bring GenAI smarts to Indian languagesGurgaon-headquartered startup Soket Labs is eyeing the release of its foundation multilingual large language model (LLM) ‘Pragna’ by Q2 nex...
08 Dec, 2023, 06.01 AM IST