IT Services
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's IT Services section.
Why Indian Startups Don’t Invest in R&D
R&D requires time, the results are uncertain, and it needs good investment.
Mohit Pandey ·
Software Engineers Have to Upskill Faster Than Anyone Else
But “upskill to what?” is what people ask.
Mohit Pandey ·
Indian Engineers Say Most College Professor Don’t Know Programming
“What's the point of paying the teachers then?” ask engineers.
Mohit Pandey ·
India's AI Startup Boom: Govt Eyes Equity Stakes and GPU Support
Indian startups need support in terms of computing resources more than in financing.
Pritam Bordoloi ·
IIT Madras is Emerging as a Major Hub for AI Startups. Here’s Why?
With a commitment to excellence, IIT Madras, a hot spot for tech startups, now wants to focus on AI.
Tarunya ·
Cognizant is Offering a Very Generous Salary of INR 2.5 LPA for Freshers
The saddest part about this is that it’s the same package that was offered in 2002.
Mohit Pandey ·
India’s Fabless Semiconductor Supply Chain is Far from Fabulous
When it comes to manufacturing chips outside India, trust is foundational. But it is also the first point of vulnerability in the supply chain.
Mohit Pandey ·
The Nalanda 2.0 Dream Crumbles
Establishing a university in India has only become more compelling with time, making the outcome even more disappointing.
Mohit Pandey ·
After Aadhaar and UPI, This New Digital Public Infrastructure Will Change How Indians Communicate
"We should have a product like Bhashini in France,” said Hélène Quintin, the CEO of KERU Project.
Siddharth Jindal ·
India's Obsession with STEM is Creating a Generation of Jobless Graduates
The number of STEM graduates from India are almost enough to fill the seats of top jobs in the US and Europe.
Mohit Pandey ·
MachineHack is What LeetCode Should be for AI and ML
MachineHack emerges as the go-to platform for AI/ML professionals, offering hackathons, and assessments to bridge the gap LeetCode can't fill.
Sagar Sharma ·
Indian Developers Like to be Exploited
Depending on the country, data crowdsourcing platforms can pay remote workers as little as $1.2/hour for a project.
vandana.nair ·
The Chief Architect of Aadhaar Suggests Indian Govt to Offer ‘Compute as a Bond’ for Generative AI
With the Union Budget around the corner, it would be interesting to see the government allocate funds for such initiatives.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Coal Dependence Threatens Indian Data Centres' Sustainability Goals
Maharashtra, which hosts over 40% of India's data centres, gets 78% of its electricity from fossil fuels. While Delhi NCR's 85-90% of electricity comes from fossil fuels.
shyam.upadhyay ·
'India's UPI Moment in AI Will Be Driven by Usage, Not Production,' Says Aadhaar Architect Pramod Varma
Former chief architect of Aadhaar Pramod Varma believes that India’s future is voice-based AI.
Siddharth Jindal ·
CP Gurnani Proves Altman Wrong, Tech Mahindra Builds Indian LLM Under $5M
He also said that India will develop its own NVIDIA in the next 5-7 years and would not need to be dependent on someone else.
shyam.upadhyay ·
“If We Got the Same Education as IITians, We Wouldn't Suck…”
IITians make IITs great, not the other way around.
Mohit Pandey ·
Indian Researchers Need to Stop Making Useless LLMs
"If you're a student or an academic dreaming of making LLMs for Indian languages, stop wasting your time. You're not going to make it."
Mohit Pandey ·
Why Perplexity AI Wasn’t Built in India
Perplexity AI had raised $15 million in its seed funding round when it was just a six-month old company, which it could have done in India.
Mohit Pandey ·
Indians in India Are Stealing Coding Jobs From Indians in the US
Indian techies need their Swadeshi movement.
Mohit Pandey ·