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India AI Revolution Timeline: ChatGPT to 2026

India's AI shift began with generative-AI experimentation in 2022-23, moved into strategy with the Union Cabinet's Rs 10,371.92 crore IndiaAI Mission approved…

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BHASHINI LAUNCHES

Bhashini Launches as India's National AI Translation Platform

MeitY launched Bhashini, a public digital platform for AI-driven translation and localisation across India's official languages, months before ChatGPT existed as a publi…

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$1B AI COMMITMENT

Wipro Commits $1 Billion to AI-First Strategy

Wipro launched Wipro ai360 and committed $1 billion to AI capability over three years -- signalling Indian IT saw generative AI as core strategy less than a year after C…

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FIRST AI UNICORN

Ola's Krutrim Becomes India's First AI Unicorn

Krutrim raised $50 million and reached a $1 billion valuation, launching Krutrim-1, a 7-billion-parameter model. It later pulled back from foundation-model work in late…

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INDIAAI MISSION APPROVED

Union Cabinet Approves the Rs 10,371.92 Crore IndiaAI Mission

The Union Cabinet approved a five-year, Rs 10,371.92 crore outlay across seven pillars: compute, foundation models, AIKosh datasets, applications, FutureSkills, startup…

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GPU COMPUTE SCALES

GPU Tenders Build a ~34,000-Unit National Compute Cluster

Three tender rounds between January and August 2025 empanelled roughly 34,333 GPUs and TPUs -- more than triple the original 10,000-unit target -- giving startups and re…

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AI GOVERNANCE GUIDELINES

MeitY Releases India AI Governance Guidelines

MeitY published voluntary, techno-legal guidelines built on self-certification and sandboxes, proposing new bodies including an AI Safety Institute -- guidelines, not bi…

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SOVEREIGN MODELS SHIP

India Hosts the AI Impact Summit as Sarvam Ships Sovereign Models

New Delhi hosted representatives from 118 countries as Sarvam AI open-sourced Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B; Reliance, Microsoft and Google announced major AI investment co…

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SARVAM BECOMES UNICORN

Sarvam AI Raises $234 Million, Becomes a Unicorn

Sarvam raised $234 million led by HCLTech at a $1.5 billion valuation -- proof a government-selected sovereign-model project can also attract serious private capital.

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PARLIAMENT'S OVERSIGHT

Parliament's Own Committee Flags the IndiaAI Mission's Execution Gap

A Parliamentary Standing Committee report found only about Rs 400 crore of the Rs 10,371.92 crore outlay released, and FutureSkills fellowships filling a fraction of the…

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