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...
17 Feb, 2026, 05.26 PM IST
India must use AI to create real economic value: Nandan NilekaniNandan Nilekani urges India to prioritize AI for improving lives and economic growth. He advocates for a 'race to the top' in AI adoption, ...
29 Jan, 2026, 04.53 PM IST
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...
06 Jun, 2025, 06.50 PM IST
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...
05 Apr, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
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...
27 Jun, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
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 ...
30 May, 2024, 04.32 PM IST
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...
13 May, 2024, 09.59 AM IST
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...
07 May, 2024, 08.42 PM IST
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...
27 Mar, 2024, 09.34 PM IST
Experts can’t find any legal basis for government's LLM missiveAccording to the lawyers, there are questions about the statutory basis and enforcement competence of such an advisory, especially concerni...
07 Mar, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
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...
07 Nov, 2023, 05.06 PM IST
Education ministry selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to modernise edtech platform DIKSHAUnder the seven-year collaboration pact, Oracle Cloud will help the ministry use DIKSHA to provide educational resources to millions of add...
02 Aug, 2023, 04.50 PM IST
Nandan Nilekani to invest $3 million in Centre for Digital Public InfrastructurePhilanthropist and non-executive chairman of Infosys Nandan Nilekani will make the investment over two years through non-profit Co-Develop....
01 Jun, 2023, 02.11 PM IST
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...
26 Feb, 2023, 10.21 PM IST
New Zealand billionaire backs Indiabulls PharmaIncorporated in 2016, the company currently has nearly 300 products under its stable, some of which have been introduced in India for the f...
05 Dec, 2017, 10.38 AM IST
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...
15 Nov, 2017, 11.07 PM IST
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...
12 Jul, 2015, 12.09 PM IST