AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Tessolve Appoints Former HCL SVP Ravi Kumar Chirugudu as President and COO
Chirugudu said he has joined Tessolve at a time when the semiconductor industry is moving towards complex, AI-driven systems.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Surat-based AI Startup Rocket Launches Vibecoding Platform to Unify Workflows
Rocket claims over 1.5 million users across 180 countries and is backed by investors including Salesforce Ventures, Accel, and Together Fund.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Quest Global Buys Bengaluru Startup BITSILICA to Level-Up Semiconductor Capabilities
With the acquisition, Quest Global brings aboard BITSILICA's end-to-end chip design and verification capabilities.
Prachi Pradhan ·
Bengaluru Startup H2LooP Secures $2 Mn Seed Funding for AI Systems Engineering
H2Loop will use the funding for large-scale enterprise implementations across data centres, UAVs, and robotics.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Anthropic Hits $30 Bn Revenue Run-Rate, Overtakes OpenAI
Anthropic also secured additional compute from Google to support Claude and enterprise demand.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Cursor Achieves 1.8x Inference Speedup on NVIDIA B200 GPUs
Cursor said warp decode assigns each GPU warp to compute one output, eliminating MoE overhead.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Majority of Indian Techies Say Country Lags in AI Race: Survey
Survey findings from Blind reveal that India is falling behind in the AI race despite large-scale investments.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
magicpin Launches ‘Vera’ AI Assistant for Retailers, Backs it With $1 Mn
The hyperlocal platform rolls out an AI-powered assistant to help small retailers digitise operations and boost visibility with over 1 lakh merchants already onboarded.
Prachi Pradhan ·
Razorpay Integrates Payments into OpenAI Codex, ChatGPT for Developers, Businesses
The feature works through Razorpay’s MCP Server, which enables Codex to generate applications with built-in payment flows.
Siddharth Jindal ·
SatLeo Labs Raises $2.2 Mn to Scale Thermal Satellite Mission
The funding will support SatLeo Labs’ satellite mission and an AI platform for thermal intelligence applications.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Andrej Karpathy Moves Beyond RAG, Builds LLM-Powered Personal Knowledge Bases
Instead of relying on RAG, Andrej Karpathy said that LLMs can manage indexing and summaries internally at smaller scales.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Wipro Acquires Mindsprint in $375 Mn Deal to Scale Agri-Business Intelligence
Following the completion of the acquisition by June 2026, Mindsprint will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wipro.
Novinston Lobo ·
Anthropic to Stop Covering OpenClaw, Other Third-Party Tools Under Claude Subscriptions
Users will still be able to access such tools using their Claude accounts, but usage will be billed separately under a pay-as-you-go model.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google DeepMind Launches Gemma 4 Amid Competition from Chinese Open Models
The models can be fine-tuned efficiently across Android devices, laptop GPUs, developer workstations and accelerators for research and production use.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Microsoft Launches Three Models to Reduce Dependence on OpenAI
All three models are available through Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground in the US.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google More Than Doubles AI Pro Storage to 5TB, Deepens Gemini Integration
The extra storage will be available for Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos, as the monthly subscription price remains approximately ₹1,950 in India.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Microsoft Appoints Aparajita Puri as MD for India & South Asia
Puri has joined Microsoft after over a decade at McKinsey & Company, where she served as a partner.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Slack Rolls Out 30 Features to Make Slackbot Central to Enterprise Work
Slackbot now combines AI reasoning with access to organisational data, including channels, history, and workflows.
Siddharth Jindal ·
India’s ₹1,005 Cr Antariksh VC Fund Rollout Gets Pushed to 2027
The fund received approval in 2024, SEBI registration in October 2025, and achieved its initial close on November 10, 2025.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Birlasoft Witnesses Exits of 3 Senior Executives, Company Signals Leadership Reset
The company did not directly address whether the simultaneous exits of three senior leaders were part of a planned restructuring or independent decisions.
C P Balasubramanyam ·