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...
18 Sep, 2025, 03.38 PM 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
Top tech and startup stories this weekWelcome to a new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter packed with the most important stories this week. Let’s take a look.
19 Jul, 2025, 07.04 AM IST
Presenting the jury for The Economic Times Awards for Corporate ExcellenceMeet the high-powered jury that will pick the winners of India Inc’s most prestigious awards: The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excel...
25 Feb, 2025, 11.14 AM IST
DeepSeek's fast rise sparks debate on Indian AI modelsChina's DeepSeek LLM, built at a fraction of the cost of Western models, has spurred India to accelerate its own AI development. This has l...
29 Jan, 2025, 12.17 PM IST
Nvidia announces partnerships with Indian tech firms, corporates around Jensen Huang's visitThis comes at a time when RIL chairman and managing director called out that India will be one of the biggest intelligence markets with the...
24 Oct, 2024, 07.23 PM IST
GENAI: why not play desi beatsThe whole narrative around large language models (LLMs), referred to as foundation/frontier models – pertinent for GenAI – is currently dri...
23 Jul, 2024, 10.59 AM IST
Tech Mahindra CEO Mohit Joshi says FY25 will be turnaround yearAs per Tech Mahindra chairman Anand Mahindra, as organisations strive to stay ahead in the digital race, IT services will play a key role i...
28 Jun, 2024, 06.06 PM IST
States & online gaming regulations; banks tap startups to foil fraudsHappy Monday! In the absence of central government’s self-regulatory mechanisms, states are framing laws for online real money gaming. This...
06 May, 2024, 07.19 AM IST
Upgrad-Udacity deal; Angel One snags Kotak Cherry top deckHappy Monday! Ronnie Screwvala-led Upgrad is closing in on US edtech firm Udacity, with a fresh fundraise likely to seal the deal. Details ...
15 Jan, 2024, 08.55 AM IST
Indian GenAI firms raised $700 million in 3 years, says Nasscom2022 has been the largest year with $566 million being infused in GenAI startups, followed by $144 million in 2023, data showed. These were...
04 Jan, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
23 going on 24: Making sense of a chaotic yet colourful year for India's tech sectorFrom 15.4 billion downloaded games to 138.08 crore people covered by Aadhar, India's tech sector had an eventful 2023. ET takes a look at t...
31 Dec, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: Here are nations at the forefront of GenAI innovationAccording to data science community platform Hugging Face, there has been a rapid influx of new LLMs, with hundreds being announced every w...
27 Dec, 2023, 12.13 PM IST
Hindi LLM maker Sarvam AI to open platform for businessFounded by former AI4Bharat researchers Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar in July, Chennai-headquartered Sarvam is planning to release mode...
18 Dec, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
Tech Mahindra eyes Dec-Jan release of Hindi LLM under ‘Project Indus’While talks have not yet begun, Tech Mahindra is considering partnerships for compute power, whether it is with Nvidia for GPUs (graphics p...
30 Oct, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
Big banks take to large language models trained on internal dataRetail-focused HDFC Bank, India’s only lender with a market capitalization in excess of $100 billion, will roll out a private LLM-powered w...
18 Oct, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
Zoho freezes hiring in engineering roles, selective recruitment for customer-facing roles to continueAmid global macro headwinds, Zoho on Wednesday said it has decided against layoffs but will adopt a prudent approach involving a hiring fre...
14 Jun, 2023, 05.36 PM IST