AI Features
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI Features section.
Cypher 2026 Day 1 Highlights: AI Moves Beyond Models to Decisions, Agents and Sovereignty
Vijay Shekhar Sharma offered personal funding to AI model builders, a Cast AI workshop showed the cost of model routing, and Tech Mahindra questioned whether humans can remain in the loop for every AI decision.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
Soket AI Launches Loop, Open-Source Harness for Long-Running AI Agents
The company is training a 26-billion-parameter model that it plans to release as open source, along with its dataset and training stack.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma Offers Personal Cheques to Founders Building AI Models
Sharma says India’s AI ambitions remain limited by risk aversion, despite sufficient capital, talent and infrastructure to build foundational technology.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
Why IIT Madras is Shunning the YC Model for its ₹1,000 Cr Deeptech Fund
IIT Madras, IIT Madras Research Park, and Unicorn India Ventures recently achieved the first close of a ₹1,000 crore fund for early-stage deeptech startups.
Siddharth Jindal ·
RBI Wants Banks to Scale AI. But Does It Have a Risk Blind Spot?
For financial institutions, the biggest concern may not be whether an AI agent makes an isolated mistake, but whether it can be allowed to continue.
Shalini Mondal ·
Zoho is Getting Serious About Vertical SaaS
Zoho is launching products across seven sectors—automotive, financial services, healthcare, education, retail, real estate, and restaurants.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Not Just GTA 6, Your Next Favourite Game Faces Delays as AI Eats Up GPUs
For some gaming studios in India, GPU availability is crucial. But others, particularly mobile developers, bet on neoclouds to sidestep memory shortages.
Merin Susan John ·
What Does Open Source Mean for the Lucrative RL Environment Business?
Xiaomi brings 7,000 + RL environments, which would otherwise cost millions of dollars—for free.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Indian Space Startups are Putting New Eyes in Space With SpaceX
SatLeo Labs and EON Space Labs will test thermal and multispectral imaging as TakeMe2Space and Google send computing technology on the same mission.
Sanjana Gupta ·
From Dots to GPT-6.1 Sol, 12 Major Announcements at OpenAI DevDay 2026
OpenAI is pushing AI deeper into coding, enterprise workflows, automation, and everyday work.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AI is Giving Hackers Machine Speed. Human Defence May Not Be Enough
The shrinking gap between compromise and data exfiltration makes early detection, code security, and unified monitoring critical for enterprises.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Why This French Investor Is Betting on China’s Moonshot AI at $30 Bn Valuation
CEO Bilal El Alamy argues that the bigger gap in AI is user adoption, not compute, as open-weight models offer companies a cheaper path to self-hosted AI.
Siddharth Jindal ·
ServiceNow CTO Warns Against 100% Automation After Its AI Tried to Change Salaries
ServiceNow CTO Pat Casey believes the next phase of enterprise AI will be won by making AI perform work that already exists inside a company.
Mohit Pandey ·
AI Portals, Drones, Satellite Mapping: Nepal Tests the Limits of RescueOps Tech
Nepal is turning to AI-powered portals, satellites, drones, and digital damage assessment to navigate the aftermath of one its worst disasters.
Kileuna Haralu ·
This Kerala Engineer Built Open-Source Jev Alternative a Year Before the Hype
Laya handles fast, low-cost decisions locally, with applications ranging from model routing and phishing detection to prompt-injection filtering and edge AI.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu Warns Trillion-Dollar AI Investments are a Bubble
Sridhar Vembu outlines Zoho’s AI push, proprietary models, rising costs, and the future of software jobs.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AI Customer Service is Getting Personal & Twilio Wants to Lead It
Companies are using customer profiles, conversation memory and real-time sentiment to make AI interactions more context-aware, while balancing automation with human support and AI costs.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Shodh AI Cut Factory Optimisation From 500 Hours to 5.6 With LUCAN
Shodh AI’s LUCAN wants to change what physical AI does on the factory floor—but by not simply predicting what a physical system will do.
Mohit Pandey ·
Forget Propreitary LLMs, Open Networks Can Unlock Health AI's UPI Moment
From a COVID-19 war room to 206 ICUs across 10 states, OHCN is building an open-source, model-agnostic healthcare platform.
Merin Susan John ·
AI Doesn’t Just Process Your Data. It Can Create New Data About You
AI systems are creating new personal-data inferences from information users already share, raising fresh questions around privacy, age verification, access controls and accountability as enterprises scale AI adoption.
Merin Susan John ·