AI Features
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI Features section.
To Lure India’s Scarce AI Talent, Govt is Ready to Outpay Even the Vice President
The government hopes that high-value project rates, public-sector scale, and access to consequential technology problems can pull private-sector AI talent.
Shalini Mondal ·
This 24-Year-Old From Bengaluru Is Betting Against Expensive AI Drug Discovery
Anindyadeep Sannigrahi founded LiteFold just under a year ago. Now, his startup has released LiteMol-1—a pioneering multi-molecule foundation model.
Mohit Pandey ·
India Has a Frugal Approach to Space Flights. But Cheaper Doesn't Mean Cheap
The challenge increasingly is not simply doing space missions cheaply, but sustaining a more ambitious space programme.
Shalini Mondal ·
Stop Drowning Claude Code in Instructions
CLAUDE.md is getting bloated as developers keep adding instructions without removing old ones, creating an ever-growing context layer for Claude Code to process.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Odisha's AI Data Centre, Semiconductor Ambitions Hinge on Massive Infra Investment
The advantages of power, water, land, and industrial infrastructure could make Odisha the data centre powerhouse of eastern India.
Shalini Mondal ·
India Doesn’t Need One TSMC, It Needs Thousands
The country has been building foundation models and AI software, but foreign processors and accelerators dominate the hardware underneath those systems. C-DAC is now working to change that.
Siddharth Jindal ·
From Scans to Care: AI Rewrites India’s Diagnostic Playbook
AI is pushing India’s diagnostics beyond one-off reports towards personalised, continuous health monitoring.
Merin Susan John ·
Why India’s Classrooms Can No Longer Teach the Way They Used To
“The purpose of education is to be able to create something. This will help us in creating products and technology.”
Shalini Mondal ·
Why Did Stripe Spend $8 Billion to Capture AI Spending?
“Would you keep production traffic on a gateway owned by the company that also settles your revenue?”
Supreeth Koundinya ·
India's Pest Surveillance AI Has Reached National Scale, But Its Impact Is Unproven
Powered by tech from Plantix and Wadhwani AI, the National Pest Surveillance System (NPSS) is an AI platform that detects crop pests and supports farmers.
Ridhika Basnet ·
AIM Person of the Year: Sharad Sanghi for Scaling Neysa to Build India’s AI Future
After building Netmagic into one of India’s pioneering digital infrastructure companies, he is starting again—this time betting billions on the infrastructure that could power India’s AI future.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Can Mohali's Cost Arbitrage Put Punjab on the Global GCC Map?
Mohali and the greater Tricity region have attracted approximately ₹7,000 crore, or around 34% of new investment in Punjab, this fiscal year.
Shalini Mondal ·
65 Languages, 156,000 Speakers: How IISc Is Teaching AI to Listen to India
IISc’s SPIRE Lab, in collaboration with ARTPARK and with support from Google, has released SraVaani 1.0, an open-source speech recognition model.
Mohit Pandey ·
How a 28-Year-Old Product Manager Built an AI Tool to Help Tenants Recover Rental Deposits
The approach reflects a larger challenge in building AI products for India's legal system
Shalini Mondal ·
Six Techies in Shillong are Building What India’s Biggest AI Labs Ignore
MWire Labs has built a multilingual speech AI system for languages including Khasi, Garo, Mizo, Kokborok, Assamese, and Nagamese, using more than 1,000 hours of field audio.
Mohit Pandey ·
Can Gujarat Turn Its Manufacturing Powerhouse Into a GCC Advantage?
Gujarat aims to attract 250 new GCCs by 2030. However, talent remains the biggest bottleneck.
Shalini Mondal ·
KissanAI Is Obsessed With Getting Its Vision Model for Farmers Right
KissanAI wants to turn crop images into actionable intelligence that agricultural businesses can plug into their existing platforms.
Siddharth Jindal ·
GitHub Has a New Problem Called Cursor Origin
Cursor is trying to change how developers manage code in an agent-driven world, but GitHub still has the advantage of habit and scale.
Siddharth Jindal ·
India is Building an AI Fibre Network. But Can It Survive a Cable Cut?
India is quickly linking AI data centres with new terrestrial and subsea fibre optic cables, but concentrated landing points and reliance on foreign repairs may jeopardise its AI ambitions.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Indian Addresses are an E-commerce Nightmare, But Meesho's LLM is Fixing That
Meesho's custom tokenizer has been trained on 67 million Indian addresses.
Shalini Mondal ·