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…
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…
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…
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…
The Union Cabinet approved a five-year, Rs 10,371.92 crore outlay across seven pillars: compute, foundation models, AIKosh datasets, applications, FutureSkills, startup…
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…
MeitY published voluntary, techno-legal guidelines built on self-certification and sandboxes, proposing new bodies including an AI Safety Institute -- guidelines, not bi…
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…
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.
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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