Inside IAIRO, India’s ISRO for AI
20/01/2026
5:43 pm
IAIRO is trying to create an ecosystem in India with funded labs, strong mentors, ambitious peers, and a culture of building AI.
In-depth stories shaping the future of AI and sparking thought-provoking conversations.
IAIRO is trying to create an ecosystem in India with funded labs, strong mentors, ambitious peers, and a culture of building AI.
Wikipedia’s partnerships with Microsoft, Meta, Perplexity, Mistral, and Amazon have ushered it into the AI era.
The previous global AI summits have delivered failed promises of self-regulation by Big Tech and voluntary agreements lacking teeth.
EY research shows that 62% of employees in India are already using AI regularly at work.
The cost of such failures is enormous, forcing teams to rethink how early and how holistically they test.
Policy advisors and civil society groups accuse Big Tech of serving corporate interests with a hawkish AI push.
Quick commerce firms are scrapping 10-minute deliveries, but riders still chase incentives and face penalties.
The Budget will be announced ahead of the IndiaAI Impact Summit, scheduled for February 19–20.
Tailwinds Labs CEO Adam Wathan recently posted that revenue was down 80% despite 75 million monthly downloads.
DPDP brings privacy rights to users and data discovery pressure for organisations.
Thousands of Indian H-1B workers face prolonged visa delays and repeated rescheduling, even as other nationalities see swift approvals.
India’s data centre ambitions are constrained by a lagging energy grid, renewable gaps, and unreliable power supply.
“The skill I spent 10,000s of hours getting good at. Programming…Is becoming a full commodity extremely quickly.”
Most graduates still lack the skills IT employers need and are increasingly turning to certifications to bridge the gap.
With Grok releasing deepfakes, MeitY asserted that adherence to the IT Act and the IT Rules is mandatory, not optional.
CAG audit found that India’s flagship skilling programme prioritised certificates over jobs, exposing deep flaws.
Karnataka was among the first to roll out a data centre policy, but the implementation on the ground is sluggish
With an advanced traffic management system, Bengaluru has reduced travel time by up to 20% in some corridors.
The contrast playing out across southern India highlights how decisively infrastructure readiness, policy execution, and speed shape tech investment outcomes.
From AI workloads to enterprise cloud adoption, data centres could become foundational drivers of India’s GDP growth.
“What we’re seeing is that accessibility-driven design often solves a broader problem. It’s not charity. It’s engineering.”
Telangana has attracted over 75 greenfield GCCs in 2025, compared with 40-plus in Karnataka.
“Only 30% of software engineering happens on the laptop. The real 70% starts after you commit the code,” says Jyoti Bansal with disarming clarity.
From groundwater and slopes to carbon sinks, tools like CatBoost are enabling Indian scientists to extract insights and drive sustainability.
With capacity expected to more than double this decade, the industry is investing in training as graduates struggle to meet real-world operational demands.
Arrcus positions itself as a horizontal software layer that can run across different types of networking hardware.
With CoreWeave’s listing and Fractal Analytics going for an IPO, an array of AI companies are now looking to raise funds through primary market.
Defenders must be active at all times, while attackers need only one opportunity.
Without compute buildup beyond metros, the next wave of digital adoption will be constrained
Land prices are among the highest in the country, but total build economics remain competitive by global standards.
