AI Features
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI Features section.
Does India’s Data Centre Boom Have a Measurement Problem?
Equinix, one of the world’s largest data centre providers, believes power capacity might be the wrong way to quantify colocation data centres.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
The New Teddy Bear: Children Love AI Toy Robots, But Do They Have a Hidden Cost?
AI robots are transforming childhood experiences, but psychologists and policy experts caution against overdependence and data risks.
Prachi Pradhan ·
Beyond Text-to-Speech: Inside the Tech Making AI Conversations Sound More Human
Consumers, especially in the BFSI sector, are increasingly rejecting IVRs that sound more robotic. Now, firms are closing in on this gap by building voice AI models that interact just like humans.
Novinston Lobo ·
AI Talent Gap is Forcing Companies to Look at Women's Returnships in New Light
Structured re-entry programmes are moving from the margins to the mainstream as companies scramble to fill AI roles.
Novinston Lobo ·
India’s Privacy Laws Come With a Huge Cost to RTI
The DPDP Act amends Section 8 1(j) of the RTI Act, removing the core safeguards that governed transparency and disclosure.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Rust Meets Golang in a New Programming Language
Lisette is the answer to a burning question: how far can Go be evolved without losing its productivity?
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Meet the 20-Year-Old IIT Madras Student Building Datasets for AGI Era
Dev Mandal’s ‘computer-use-large’ dataset has already crossed 1 lakh downloads on Hugging Face.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Surgical robots are Not New. Intelligent Ones are
Tata Elxsi is developing AI-enabled solutions for surgical robots and healthcare systems.
Merin Susan John ·
India’s National Informatics Centre Risks Missing the AI Moment
From shared AI infrastructure to cloud redesign, NIC must rethink systems, scale, and governance to stay central to India’s AI push.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
Ending Tax Notices: Clear Believes AI-Native Data Lakes Can Shield Enterprises
Clear’s custom ML models and AI agents aim to cut enterprise tax response time from weeks to hours.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
Why Indian Developers No Longer Start Their Day With a ChatGPT Tab
As AI coding tools mature, developers are shifting toward Claude and Gemini, as a multi-model ecosystem emerges across workflows.
Prachi Pradhan ·
Indian AI Startups Get a Reality Check: Hype, Heuristics, and Cash
The wave of AI startups shutting down can't be simply blamed on a funding drought. VCs are investing—but far more selectively. The 'wrapper' era is over.
Novinston Lobo ·
How Google Used High School Math to Deliver 8x Performance Boost on NVIDIA H100s
“All you had to do was pay attention to the polar coordinates lecture in [trigonometry], and you could have discovered a 6x reduction in KV cache memory.”
Supreeth Koundinya ·
How AlphaFold is Driving India’s Life Sciences Industry
This allows companies like GSK and Sanofi to speed up R&D by 30-40 per cent, enabling faster identification of drug targets
Shalini Mondal ·
Indian Universities Become AI Innovation Conveners of a Collaborative Tech Future
Universities in the country are helping translate national technological ambitions into actionable industry dialogue.
Shalini Mondal ·
India’s Unlikely SaaS Success Story Begins Its Second Act With AI
Bootstrapped, profitable, $200 million exit. Now, Wingify is betting on AI's mess.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
India’s Diversity is Forcing a New Layer of AI Engineering in Retail
The complexity of Indian retail data is a testing ground for Reliance-owned Fynd’s AI systems.
Shalini Mondal ·
Peyush Bansal Reveals How AI Took Lenskart to 5.5 Million Eye Tests
The company is in early stages of developing AI-based self-testing, where the examination itself is guided by algorithms rather than a remote specialist.
Mohit Pandey ·
Acer’s Altos AI Server is 51% Made in India
MD Harish Kohli exclusively told AIM the company is building capacity for 5,000 servers in India and expects to ship over 3,000 units in the next year.
Mohit Pandey ·
India's AI Copyright Overhaul Stares at Tech, Institutional Hurdles
India is moving cautiously toward an AI copyright framework, balancing innovation, creators' rights, and regulatory complexity.
Pallavi Chakravorty ·