ChatGPT or foreigner bride? Grandmother's innocent reaction while talking to AI about her grandson divides the internet. 'Don't do this'An Indian grandmother’s innocent conversation with ChatGPT has gone viral after she was led to believe that the AI voice assistant was a fo...
Block deals test valuations; gig platforms quit welfare boardHappy Friday! Block deals are putting startups’ private valuations to the test. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
Karnataka to run voice AI pilots with ElevenLabs across skilling, healthcare, citizen servicesThe move comes as the state looks to identify high-impact AI applications that can improve the delivery of government and public services, ...
ET Startup Awards 2026 | Best on Campus: Armatrix slithers to success with snake-like robotic armsArmatrix has won the Best on Campus award at the ET Startup Awards 2026 for its snake-like robotic arms designed to work in narrow, hazardo...
Zerodha’s growth stalls; IT’s new deal modelZerodha’s profit growth has slowed as its core broking business comes under pressure. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
Ringg AI raises $10 million in funding from Peak XV Partners, othersFounded in 2023 by Siddharth Tripathi, Kali Charan Vemuru and Utkarsh Shukla, the startup counts Policybazaar, CRED, Flipkart, Groww and Pr...
From 100,000 calls a month to 5 million a day: Inside Vobiz’s AI telephony betFounded by Suman Gandham and Vikash Srivastava, Vobiz is betting that the rise of AI voice agents will require a telecom layer built for ma...
Enterprise Voice AI in India: How AI-powered voice technology is scaling across businessesEnterprise Voice AI is moving from pilots to production, helping businesses deliver faster, multilingual customer interactions at scale. Th...
Vahan AI fine-tunes 30-billion-parameter Nvidia Nemotron model for blue-collar hiringThe company worked with Nvidia’s technical team through its Inception programme to customise the 30-billion-parameter model using Vahan’s p...
Fireflies CEO Krish Ramineni wants to turn its AI notetaker into an ‘action-taker’Over the next year, Fireflies plans to add more than a dozen capabilities beyond meetings, according to Ramineni.
India faces capital, talent gap in foundational AI race: Menlo Ventures’ Deedy DasIndia faces hurdles in building globally competitive foundational AI companies, with top research talent concentrated in San Francisco and ...
VCs becoming marginal in AI cycle, enterprises should invest in the sector: Peak XV’s Shailendra Singh“Every large enterprise should be investing in AI,” Singh said at The Economic Times World Leaders Forum in New Delhi. Pointing to HCLTech’...
From AI strategy to enterprise execution: The leaders shaping India’s AI transformationThe Economic Times AI Business Transformation Masterclass & ET Most Innovative AI Product Awards 2026 brings together leaders from NVIDIA, ...
Karnataka CM Shivakumar seeks Southern Zonal Council resolution to retain 543 Lok Sabha seats, honour 1971 censusKarnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar urged the Southern Zonal Council to adopt a resolution. He called for the 1971 census to be the bas...
India startup aims to compete with OpenAI in crowded voice arenaMurf AI has launched Falcon 2, a text-to-speech model designed to deliver human-like voices at lower costs and faster speeds. Priced at $0....
Wispr Flow raises $280 million at $2 billion valuation, Peak XV joins new roundSan Francisco-based voice AI startup Wispr Flow has raised $280 million at a $2 billion valuation, nearly tripling its valuation from its p...
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 ...