Voice AI attracts interest; Inside PhonePe’s IPO planHappy Thursday! Voice AI startups are beginning the year on a high note. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
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...
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...
IndiaAI startups resist Centre’s plan to seek equity for supportThe Centre plans to hold discussions with the 12 companies approved under the IndiaAI Mission to build foundational artificial intelligence...
DPDP rules to be released by 28 September: VaishnawThe DPDP rules will be followed by a comprehensive set of frequently asked questions, Vaishnaw said. This will include the ones put to the ...
Eight local firms may get IndiaAI foundational AI models incentivesThe Indian government is set to announce the next round of beneficiaries under the IndiaAI Mission, with close to homegrown AI firms expect...
The great Indic data huntRace to build Indic models has heated up, but challenge over availability of Indic language data persists.
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...
Third tender set to add 3,800 GPUs to IndiaAI GPU clusterIndiaAI Mission is expanding its GPU resources. Around 3,850 GPUs will be added through the third tender. This includes Google Trillium TPU...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Conversational AI startups hear sound of money as demand risesInvestor interest in voice technology is rising sharply. Venture capital funding surged to $202 million in 2024 across 12 deals, up from $7...
ETtech Explainer: Meet AI ‘Saba’ trained on Arabic, Tamil, MalayalamIndian startups developing Indic AI models face competition from global players like Mistral AI, which launched a multilingual model traine...
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...
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...