AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Paytm Launches AI-Powered Soundbox for Merchants in 11 Indian Languages
Merchants can ask the device for summaries of their collections, trends, and performance, turning it into what Paytm describes as an “AI business assistant.”
Mohit Pandey ·
VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz Dismisses Claim of Opening Bengaluru Office as 'Fake News'
a16z recently made limited investments in India despite earmarking $500 million for Indian startups in 2022.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Gnani.ai Debuts Realistic AI Avatars in Indic Languages with HumanOS
The company said it is targeting use cases like video KYC, onboarding, document guidance, customer service, and executive communication across web, mobile, and kiosk platforms.
Mohit Pandey ·
GlobalLogic Expands to Chennai to Deepen Telecom and Media Partnerships
The new Chennai office will function as a Center of Excellence (CoE) with plans to strengthen partnerships with GCCs
Smruti S ·
Amidst Competition from OpenAI, n8n Raises $180 Mn
The startup also revealed that this year has led to a sixfold increase in user growth and a tenfold increase in revenue growth.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Cisco Launches 8223 Routing System to Connect AI Data Centres
The 8223 addresses the growing demand for inter-data centre connections as AI workloads increase, stretching power and space limits in hyperscale data centres.
Siddharth Jindal ·
With $30 a Month, Build AI Agents at Work with Gemini Enterprise
The company said that it provides an environment where employees can build and deploy AI agents to automate processes.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Tiny Model from Samsung AI Lab Beats Gemini 2.5 Pro, o3-mini on ARC-AGI
Trained with just 4 H100 GPUs.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
IG Drones Signs MoU with UP Government for Defence Corridor Facility
“Our new facility will serve as a hub of innovation, manufacturing, and employment.”
Sanjana Gupta ·
Razorpay, NPCI, and OpenAI Launch Agentic Payments to Bring AI-Driven Commerce to India
The service allows users to discover, compare, and purchase products seamlessly within conversational AI.
Mohit Pandey ·
NVIDIA Launches Rubin CPX GPU for Million-Token AI Workloads
The semiconductor giant also introduced its AI Factory reference designs along with MLPerf Inference v5.1 results showing record performance for its Blackwell Ultra GPUs.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Karnataka Hosts Half of India’s Mid-Market GCCs, Says Study
These centres employ nearly 74,000 professionals in Karnataka.
Shalini Mondal ·
Yotta Orders 8,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to Support IndiaAI Mission
The company is going to invest $1.5 billion for this purpose.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Confluent Names Stephen Deasy as Chief Technology Officer
He previously served as CTO at Benchling, where he built the company’s global product and platform teams
Siddharth Jindal ·
Aays Acquires Aidetic to Strengthen Enterprise AI and Edge Deployments
Aidetic’s team will form Aays’ new AI Engineering Hub in Bengaluru, though the acquisition value remains undisclosed.
Merin Susan John ·
OpenAI in Talks with Reliance and Other Data Centres to Bring Stargate in India
Indian government had asked OpenAI to invest a portion of the $500 billion Stargate project here.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Mistral AI Secures €1.7 Bn Funding Led by ASML, Valuation Reaches €11.7 Bn
ASML invested €1.3 billion, becoming Mistral’s largest shareholder with an 11% stake.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google Cuts Veo 3 Pricing to Help Developers Build Cheaper AI Videos
The video generation model by Google is now more affordable.
Ankush Das ·
OpenAI Backs $30 Million AI Animated Film for Cannes Debut
The film will make use of OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT-5 and advanced image generators.
Merin Susan John ·
Cisco Announces Agentic Observability Features, Time Series AI Model
AI agents will automate telemetry collection, identify root causes, and recommend fixes.
AIM Media House ·