Understanding the reality of open weights AI models, and how China feels about LLMs.Chinese models look formidable on paper, but once benchmarks refresh and real users settle into habits, the gap between performance and adoption reappears. On OpenRouter—a…

Indian quick-commerce firm Zepto has released an internal tool that allows users to place Zepto Cafe orders using natural-language instructions through an LLM such as Anthropic’s Claude. The tool, built by a Zepto engineer and shared publicly on GitHub, was…

Robotics companies often talk about intelligence as something built in controlled environments, trained in simulation, and perfected before deployment. That logic borrows heavily from the rise of digital AI, where models improved behind screens before reaching…

When Jayasudan Munsamy walked away from a stable career at Amazon in 2018, he was seeking to build something meaningful. “I always wanted to do something on my own, something that would help the community,” he told AIM.  In 2019, he founded DeepVisionTech.ai…

Zuppa Geo Navigation Technologies has partnered with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, to establish a drone centre of excellence (CoE) at IISc’s department of mechanical engineering to advance indigenous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies.…

Apple has begun early discussions with Indian chipmakers to assemble and package components for its iPhone, the Economic Times reported, citing sources. The talks involved Murugappa Group-owned CG Semi, which is building an outsourced semiconductor assembly…

US-based company Wisk Aero, backed by Boeing, completed the first flight of its Generation 6 autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) on December 16 at its test facility in Hollister, California.  The company said the aircraft conducted…

Persistent Systems and cloud computing platform DigitalOcean have partnered to accelerate AI adoption for enterprises and developers.  The collaboration seeks to develop cost-effective, scalable, and secure infrastructure to support AI workloads and deployments…

The entertainment capital, the finance capital — and now the data centre capital of India. Mumbai hosts the country’s densest data-centre footprint, and the gap is widening. Cushman & Wakefield’s India Data Centre H1 2025 Update places Mumbai’s operational…

NVIDIA has picked CloudThat, a Bengaluru-based technology training and consulting firm, as its first education services partner in India, marking a key milestone in the country’s fast-growing AI skilling ecosystem. With this partnership, CloudThat has become…