AI Startups
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI Startups section.
India Loves Llama, But Flirts with Mistral and Qwen
Sarvam said it chose Mistral Small because it could be substantially improved for Indic languages, making it a strong foundation for a hybrid reasoning model that supports India’s linguistic diversity.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Bengaluru’s AI Ecosystem Shows Resilience Amid Plunging Investments
Despite a slowdown in funding, Karnataka, especially Bangalore, remains a key AI tech hub, benefiting from its skilled talent pool amid rising competition from other cities.
Smruthi Nadig ·
How India’s Deep Tech Investors are Exiting Smart
With secondary markets and structured exits, returns no longer require a public listing or a mega-acquisition.
Smruthi Nadig ·
AI Literacy in Classrooms: Why Fact-Checking and Critical Thinking Can’t Be Optional
Ethics and awareness of bias in algorithms need to be the focus of AI literacy curricula
Smruthi Nadig ·
Why Cluely Thinks ‘Cheating’ Is the Future of Work
The founder told AIM that Cluely is often branded as a ‘cheating app,’ but the company is choosing to wear the title like a badge.
Siddharth Jindal ·
VerSe Innovation Denies Allegations of Fake Biz Deals with Builder.ai
The company claims that the revenue recorded in its financial statements relates to legitimate services rendered and delivered.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
IIT Kanpur is Behind India’s Next Wave of $1 Billion Startups
“The institute has incubated around 425 startups, out of which approximately 200 can be called reasonably successful.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
How This Bengaluru Startup is Making External Hiring Obsolete
“Now 70% [hiring needs] can be fulfilled internally, and only for 30% you’ll have to look outside. That is the best impact that we have.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
Inside 2am VC’s Investment Strategy
The firm, based in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, and Los Angeles, focuses on consumer startups, especially AI in education, and language learning.
Aditi Suresh ·
Indian AI Startups Have a ‘Fancy Ice Cream’ Problem. Who’s to Blame?
Indian AI startups risk falling behind in a race increasingly defined by infrastructure, IP ownership, and sovereign capabilities.
Siddharth Jindal ·
The Secret Weapon Firms are Using to Cut Cloud Costs by 20%
Some of CloudKeeper’s clients include Zepto, CarDekho, Tata 1mg, Lenskart, MobiKwik, and Pocket FM.
Mohit Pandey ·
Bengaluru-Based Sarvam AI Selected Under IndiaAI Mission to Build India’s Sovereign LLM
The company has proposed developing a 70-billion-parameter multimodal AI model that supports both Indian languages and English, and work on it has already begun.
Siddharth Jindal ·
This Indian AI Startup Proves LLMs No Longer Need Expensive GPUs
“With a 50 billion-parameter model, no GPU will be necessary during fine-tuning or inference.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
AI Startups Have a ‘Cursor for Everything’ Identity Crisis
On the other hand, Cursor has not spent a single dollar on marketing, at least that is what the founders claim.
Mohit Pandey ·
IIMs Are Quietly Incubating AI Startups That Will Outlast the Hype
Across IIM campuses, AI startups are gaining momentum, where strategic business thinking meets cutting-edge technology.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Why Smallest.ai Took a US First Approach and Not India
“I think there’s a lot more to do, and it’s still superficial in my opinion,” Apoorv Sood said.
Mohit Pandey ·
When AI Startups Run Out of Compute, Mid-Sized Firms Step In
“The application processes can sometimes be cumbersome and awareness is not as widespread as it should be.”
Smruthi Nadig ·
How Confluent is Helping Swiggy Deliver Millions of Orders Daily
“If Confluent is down, Swiggy is down.”
vandana.nair ·
What Made Menlo Ventures Bet on Anthropic?
Deedy Das explains the strategy behind big VC bets in an otherwise uncertain AI landscape.
Aditi Suresh ·
Is Indian Edtech Still Worth the Bet After 2,150 Failed Startups?
Tread with caution: A whopping 2,150 Indian edtech startups have shut down since 2020.
vandana.nair ·