India Artificial Intelligence Mission (AI, LLM, ML): News, Updates & Discussions

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IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Challenges TCS, Infosys, Wipro to develop indigenous Mobile OS

“From this stage I would like to give this challenge to our big tech companies like Infosys, TCS and Wipro take up this challenge and develop the operating system for mobile,” Ashwini Vaishnaw said | OpIndia News

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Actually Zoho, Lenskart, quick heal if given funding and mandate, they would have higher probability to develop. Making those products popular totally depends on Govt policy.

Why? Product development is all about attitude. Dehaadi Thekedaars would not understand this.

View: https://youtu.be/FjMpg9k42Y4?si=eRHZlYr8ahJSeAqf

Ashwini Vaishnaw on AI , SMC IR & MeitY at The Republic Plenary Summit held yesterday.


View: https://youtu.be/vT0yO6GsIcU?si=jnY_xZCmYGhSxb5e

Raghav & Abhinav Aggarwal, Ankush Sabharwal On India's AI Revolution | Republic Plenary Summit

A few AI entrepreneurs on the AI scene in India. Seem gung ho at the opportunities & GoI's policies at The Republic Plenary Summit.

If we've to move further in this field we'd have to look at young entrepreneurs . The older generation are either too old , have lost their risk taking appetite , are too conservative , have struck back room deals not to get into products with their principals in the US , are happy body shopping with ever decreasing scope & margins in an arbitrage business etc .

It's either some or most of the reasons cited above.

 

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India AI Mission: How we're poised to ride next innovation wave​

On February 11, at the AI Action Summit in Paris, Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched upon all these developments as he announced India’s plan to develop “its own LLM considering our [linguistic] diversity”. In fact, there are several parallel efforts ongoing in this domain, including a foundational model funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). Called BharatGen, this suite of LLMs is being developed by a Technology Innovation Hub at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. “By enabling an ecosystem around its foundational models, BharatGen envisions positioning India as a global leader in Generative AI,” Prof. Abhay Karandikar, secretary, DST, tells india today. “BharatGen will work with the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) and its IndiaAI Mission.”​

A six-month-old venture with a funding commitment of around Rs 236 crore over two years, BharatGen has been incorporated as a non-profit organisation. Being built from the ground up, the model spans text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition in multiple Indian languages. In this, it leveraged the work done by Bhashini, a natural language processing project for Indian languages under the MeitY. “We have also been building homegrown datasets. As Indian languages have less than one per cent representation on the internet, we need to curate original datasets,” says Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan of IIT Bombay, who leads the BharatGen consortium. “Not only is BharatGen government-funded, it is an academic collaboration by design.”​

India AI Mission: How we’re poised to ride next innovation wave

From large language models catering to India’s linguistic diversity to solution-driven AI agents that can be deployed across sectors, the possibilities are limitless

www.indiatoday.in

 

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Raisina Dialogue 2025 II Live - Day 2 II Winning the AI Marathon: India in the Global AI Race​

View: https://youtu.be/WBbl6RkFEWI

 

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'Entire offering is just a repackaging': AI founder tears into OLA CEO Bhavish Aggarwal's Krutrim

Positioned as India’s answer to global AI infrastructure players, Krutrim aims to offer cloud-based access to powerful large language models, all hosted on domestic servers.

www.businesstoday.in

Bhavish Aggarwal ought to be penning the sequel to Dale Carnegie's enormously successful - How to win friends & influence people!

 

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Wish this IITM incubation/startup succeeds. Even a moderately powerful (say 70 billion parameter model) running on commodity CPUs will be gamechanger.

Indian startup unveils system to run AI without advanced chips

Indias Ziroh Labs, in collaboration with IIT Madras, has developed Kompact AI—a system enabling large AI models to run on standard CPUs instead of costly GPUs. Tested by Intel and AMD, the platform aims to bridge the AI divide by making advanced AI more accessible and affordable for developers.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

 

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View: https://youtu.be/5AzPPZr9iFo?si=yRdIQA3Z0cRVDBhi

Oh well , this went completely under the radar & pretty uncharacteristic of a Tata group company too.

 

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View: https://x.com/SarvamAI/status/1916068283910176889

 

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MeitY to Back Sarvam AI, Soket AI Labs, Gnani.ai for IndiaAI Mission | AIM Media House

Soket AI Labs confirmed that they have proposed building an LLM in 12 months, and smaller models within six months.

analyticsindiamag.com

 

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View: https://youtube.com/shorts/eigP4TjMeSU?si=FL1GLsr2oA9wJoBk

 

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Rajiv Malhotra - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Perspective

Explore the profound insights of Rajiv Malhotra, bridging ancient wisdom with contemporary challenges.

askrajiv.ai

 

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Sam Altman: The Wonder Kid of Our Era

Sam Altman is the wonder kid of Artificial Intelligence development, much like Steve Jobs was for handheld devices and Bill Gates for revolutionizing desktop computing. Over the past five years, Altman has been at the helm of OpenAI, spending an estimated $30 billion in pursuit of developing the next leap in AI technology—anchored by its flagship product, ChatGPT.

The mission: to build increasingly intelligent AI models capable of tasks that rival human cognition. OpenAI began with an initial $1 billion in seed funding from its first few investors, catapulting it into the spotlight. That early momentum attracted major backers, including Microsoft and, more recently, a pledge from SoftBank potentially worth up to $30 billion. All of this investment is rooted in the belief that OpenAI’s future value will justify the costs. The company is projecting $125 billion in revenue and $12 billion in cash flow by 2029.

However, the present paints a grimmer picture. OpenAI’s current revenue stands at about $3.5 billion, while it has posted losses nearing $5 billion. This financial outlook is unlikely to improve dramatically in the near term. In a bid to secure further funding, Sam Altman recently accompanied President Trump on a diplomatic tour of the Middle East to court fresh capital. One of the most promising outcomes of that trip was a deal with the UAE to build one of the world’s largest data centre hubs.

This is an ambitious endeavour. While the UAE brings capital and infrastructure, it lacks the skilled workforce required to operate and maintain such a massive AI facility. That expertise, fortunately, lies just 500 miles away in India—a win-win for all parties involved: India, the UAE, and OpenAI.
Altman’s vision is bold: an advanced form of AI that could perform many tasks currently handled by humans. But this vision hinges on enormous funding—funding that has so far come in phases: from angel investors, to tech giants, and now to sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East.

Whether this high-stakes gamble pays off remains to be seen. One hopes Altman’s grand ambitions succeed—because if they don’t, more affordable AI alternatives like DeekSeek or emerging systems from India, expected to launch later this year, may rise to fill the gap.