xAI hosts a hackathon on Dec 6–7 with early access to unreleased models; Grok Code remote spotted in development.

India’s strides in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are often described in terms of venture funding, unicorn valuations, or the global race to access GPU clusters. But, beneath these headlines lies a quieter, foundational movement, one powered not by governments…

At Celosphere 2025 in Munich, the message from Celonis was clear that there is no AI without PI, or Process Intelligence, something that the company is betting big on. And evidently, there is no PI without India and the brains that are working in the country. …

AI startups today are finding success by solving specific, high-value problems in narrow domains, while the general-purpose AI market is being dominated by tech giants.  These startups integrate AI into industry-specific workflows, automating tasks such as…

Robotics and automation company Addverb has partnered with leading academic institutions, including IITs, NAMTECH, and NIIT Neemrana in Rajasthan, to strengthen India’s robotics innovation ecosystem.  The collaboration will see the creation of Centres of…

IIT Madras-backed AI4Bharat has launched the Indic LLM Arena, a crowd-sourced platform to evaluate global LLMs built for Indian users. The leaderboard aims to set a standard for how AI systems understand, respond, and behave across India’s many languages…

As artificial intelligence and emerging technologies shape the nature of work, industry leaders are urging organisations to rethink how they deploy technology, such that it also empowers people.  “A forward-looking organisation looks at AI and technology…

CAMB.AI and Broadcom have announced a collaboration that embeds CAMB.AI’s generative voice model, MARS, directly into Broadcom’s neural processing unit (NPU) chipsets.  The partnership enables text-to-speech and localisation features to run natively on consumer…

What's new? Verdent a coding agent 76.1% pass@1 on SWE-bench is live as a Visual Studio Code extension plus standalone app; it runs plan-code-verify subagents for debug and review;

AI can automate frameworks, but not their interpretation or meaning.