India’s proposed AI law may place the most capable AI models under a separate safety framework, with pre-release evaluation, sandbox testing and human-control safeguards among the options on the table ahead of a consultation paper due in the coming weeks.
Cognizant is in discussions to join Sarvam’s roughly $300 million funding round, which could value the Bengaluru sovereign AI company at $3.5–4 billion, more than double its $1.5 billion Series B valuation from June.
OpenAI has launched a festive-season campaign in India built around Neer and Leher, the two Hindi voices introduced with its GPT-Live-1.1 voice model, as the company doubles down on voice-first, multilingual AI for Indian users.
The Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru, has released Anuvani-LID and Anuvani-Diarization, open-weight speech AI models for language identification and speaker diarisation across all 22 scheduled languages and Indian English.
CoRover.ai has listed BharatGPT Mini, BharatGPT Instruct and ASR Hindi Conformer on AIKosh, the IndiaAI Mission’s national AI models platform, after review and approval by IndiaAI and MeitY.
Uttar Pradesh has approved the PRAGATI Robotics and AI Park in Greater Noida, a 69.52-acre hub with shared GPU compute, robotics testing and certification labs that the state expects to create over one lakh jobs and add ₹2,000 crore a year to its economy.
Nvidia has joined a $14 million Series B in Bengaluru-based Simplismart, led by Dallas Venture Capital with Accel, Shastra VC and Micromax, valuing the AI inference startup at about $100 million.
Entire, the startup co-founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, has launched a Git-compatible hosting and review platform built around Trails, where AI review agents score code changes before humans approve merges. Customers can host repositories in an India region.
IIT Kharagpur will set up the Benjamin Gupta School of Physical AI, which it calls India’s first dedicated school in the field, with a ₹35 crore investment backed by alumnus Vinod Gupta’s family and an anonymous alumnus. It will focus on robotics, digital twins, scientific AI and explainable AI, with programmes expected from the upcoming session.
For the first time, AI accounts for more than a tenth of revenue at both TCS and Infosys. TCS’s annualised AI revenue has crossed $3.1 billion, while Infosys’s AI revenue grew 29% quarter-on-quarter to 10.5% of its Q2 FY27 revenue, even as overall growth stays muted.
