C-DAC opens technical proposals today for its IndiaAI Mission tender to empanel AI service providers that can supply up to 10,000 AI compute units, including H100 and H200-class GPUs, for five years.
Vyoma.AI, the AI cloud and hyperscale data centre arm of Larsen & Toubro, has broken ground on a 52 MW liquid-cooled, AI-ready data centre at its Chennai campus, which already runs a 30 MW facility and is set to host a 10,000-GPU NVIDIA B300 AI Factory for Together AI.
A new Tracxn report on 34 companies building AI for India’s languages finds $657 million raised across 56 rounds since 2021, with Sarvam’s two 2026 rounds accounting for the bulk of this year’s surge and no late-stage round yet on record.
Bengaluru-based Gnani AI has launched Prisma v3.0, a speech-to-text model trained on Indian telephone audio and code-mixed speech, covering nine Indian languages plus Indian English with four transcription modes and a lower word error rate than ElevenLabs Scribe v2 in its Vistaar evaluation.
Singapore-headquartered AI infrastructure operator OneQode has signed for 14 MW of data centre capacity at AdaniConneX’s Siruseri SIPCOT campus in Chennai, its first major AI deployment in India, with talks under way on up to 114 MW.
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.
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.
HQ Integrated Defence Staff and Sarvam AI have signed an MoU to develop secure, India-controlled AI for the Army, Navy and Air Force, spanning applications, research, knowledge management, training and decision support, with a focus on data sovereignty and responsible AI.
Sarvam co-founder Dr Vivek Raghavan has urged India to build its own AI models and compute while keeping control of its data, warning that dependence on foreign AI foundations could reduce the country to a ‘digital colony’. Speaking to students in Gwalior, he called for AI built “by Indians, for India, and then for the world”.
