The September 2025 edition of AIM Print captures India’s fast-evolving AI journey, spotlighting the people, companies, and paradoxes shaping technology and its future. From Google’s partnerships to homegrown innovators like NxtGen and Bhasha, and from government ambitions under the IndiaAI Mission to the growing influence of open source, this issue is a sweeping view of ambition, risk, and resilience.

Google Gives India’s AI Mission Wings

Google is doubling down on India’s AI ecosystem by working with startups like Sarvam AI, Soket AI, and Gnani.ai. At Google I/O India, Manish Gupta (Google DeepMind) announced that these firms are building on Gemma models to create Indic-language solutions. Sarvam Translate, developed by Vivek Raghavan, supports 22 Indian languages, while Soket AI’s Abhishek Upperwal is building agriculture-specific AI. Other partners include CoRover, Glance, Entri, Invideo, Nykaa, Dashverse, and Toonsutra .

Building India’s NxtGen

The cover story chronicles AS Rajgopal, CEO of NxtGen Cloud Technologies, and his bold bet on AI sovereignty. Pivoting from data centers to cloud and now full-stack AI services, NxtGen is supplying GPUs under the IndiaAI Mission alongside Jio Platforms, Locuz, E2E Networks, CtrlS, CMS, Orient Technologies, Tata Communications, Vensysco, and Yotta.

Rajgopal emphasizes sovereignty and risk management, while his son Abhisyant A leads AI products, launching M, an open-source agentic AI platform built in India. With over 40 enterprise AI use cases in production, NxtGen is also experimenting with nuclear-powered data centers to handle rising compute demands .

India’s AI Paradox

Senior editor Prabhu M highlights the contradictions of India’s AI journey. While the IndiaAI Mission aims to reduce dependence on US and Chinese models, reliance on foreign GPUs remains a vulnerability. Voices like Balaraman Ravindran (IIT Madras, Wadhwani School of AI) and Deepinder Goyal (Eternal) underscore the urgency of sovereign semiconductor manufacturing amid US export controls .

Bhasha Puts Indian Languages First

In Agartala, Bishal Saha is building Bhasha, an indie AI-driven language app powered by Bhashini datasets. Unlike Duolingo, which supports only a handful of Indian languages, Bhasha already covers over a dozen, including Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Odia, Manipuri, and Sanskrit. With 25,000 users, most of the app’s code and courses are AI-generated using Claude and ChatGPT, making it a true grassroots innovation .

India’s Big Open Source Hack

Arpit Joshipura (Linux Foundation India) calls for Indian IT to move from consuming to contributing to open source. Infosys became the first major IT firm to donate a project to the Linux Foundation, while companies like IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, Ericsson, Nokia, and Cisco are also building open-source capabilities from their Indian R&D centers. Joshipura projects India could be the world’s top contributor to open source by 2030 .

India Needs More IITs than AI Startups

Balaraman Ravindran stresses that India’s research capacity lags despite the IndiaAI Mission’s ₹10,000-crore funding. While IIT Madras received ₹584 crore in 2023-24, this pales against China’s Tsinghua University or the US’s MIT. Ravindran argues that India must expand world-class institutions if it wants to compete globally in AI .

AI Reaches Tier 2 Cities

Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, announced 20+ AI labs under the IndiaAI Mission in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, with a target of 570 labs by 2027. This rollout—though criticized for leaving out several southern states—aims to train 1.5 lakh students and democratize AI literacy. Voices like Ankita Vashistha (Arise Ventures) and Anand Fernandes (EG India) stress the importance of expanding infrastructure and investment beyond metros .

Global Perspectives

The issue also explores:

• Meta’s hiring spree of Chinese AI talent and what it means for global competition.
• Cloudflare’s entry into AI infrastructure, promising stability amid compute chaos.
• Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani’s view on GCCs as “critical clients,” as India crosses 1,600+ GCCs with 120 new centers in 2024 .

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The August edition of AIM Print captures the changing face of AI, startups, and enterprise technology in India and beyond. From India’s ambitious AI agent ecosystem to the story of a prisoner-turned-engineer who codes 90 hours a week, this issue delivers insights into innovation, resilience, and the challenges shaping the industry.

Locked Up, Logged In: Coding Behind Bars

One of the most striking features in this edition is the story of Preston Thorpe, a software engineer at Turso, who continues to write code from within the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Maine. Proficient in Rust, Python, and databases, Thorpe turned his incarceration into a journey of self-learning, contributing to open-source projects and rewriting parts of SQLite. Without access to large language models, he relied on project-based learning, which he now calls a blessing. His story is not just about coding but about how AI and software can become tools of rehabilitation and empowerment.

India’s AI Agent Gamble

The cover story explores how Indian startups are leading the push into agentic AI—AI systems that don’t just generate text but plan, reason, and execute.

• RevRag, led by Ashutosh Singh, is embedding AI agents into apps for Tier-3 and Tier-4 cities, aiming for a $10 million revenue target by 2027.
• Gupshup, under CEO Beerud Sheth, is leveraging its massive messaging infrastructure for conversational agents.
• Gnani.ai, founded by Ganesh Gopalan and Ananth Nagaraj, has built Inya.ai, a voice-first agentic platform deployed at IDFC First Bank and HDFC Bank.
• Floworks, co-founded by Sudipta Biswas, is reimagining sales with AI SDRs that qualify leads and book meetings.
• Sarvam AI recently launched Samvaad and open-weight models for Indic languages, pushing for India-first AI.
• SaaS giant Zoho, led by Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, continues its pragmatic AI strategy with proprietary LLM stacks.
• AIonOS, co-founded by CP Gurnani and Arjun Nagulapally, is building IntelliMate, a deep-tech agentic AI platform for enterprises.
• Krutrim, founded by Bhavish Aggarwal, launched Kruti, an AI assistant built for Bharat, supporting 11 Indian languages and Aadhaar/PAN card inputs.

The ecosystem now counts more than 100 startups, with investors like Redis backing firms such as Kore AI. India’s agentic AI future may not mirror Silicon Valley, but its ambition is unmistakable.

IIT-Kanpur: India’s Next Unicorn Hub

The Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre (SIIC) at IIT-Kanpur has incubated more than 425 startups, with around 200 deemed successful. Professor Deepu Philip revealed that the incubator has supported startups worth over ₹7,228 crore. Unlike many institutions, SIIC is inclusive—open to innovators across India, not just IIT alumni.

Startups include Ananant Systems (5G chip design), Life and Limb (intelligent prosthetics), xTerra Robotics (unmanned ground robots), and VU Dynamics (chemical drones). Partnerships with Toyota Tsusho, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and NMexus in New Mexico are helping Kanpur startups scale globally.

Madhya Pradesh’s GCC Playbook

While Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune dominate the GCC map, Madhya Pradesh is charting a new path. Sanjay Dubey, Additional Chief Secretary, highlighted plans to attract 50+ GCCs and 37,000 direct jobs. With over 300 engineering colleges and partnerships with Meta, AWS, Barclays, and L&T Mindtree, MP is positioning Indore and Bhopal as next-gen tech hubs. The state is also preparing a Space Tech Policy and CoEs in semiconductors, drones, and agri-tech.

Global Tech: MongoDB, Red Hat, and Snowflake vs Databricks

• MongoDB, under VP Boris Bialek, is embedding itself into IDEs like VS Code and IntelliJ, with GitHub Copilot integrations and Atlas CLI. Partners like Microsoft’s Azim Uddin confirmed its expanding role in enterprise AI.
• Red Hat, with Ameeta Roy and Mangesh Surve, is integrating Llama 4, vLLM, and llm-d to democratize enterprise AI. Its commitment to open-source scalability spans BFSI, government, and airlines.
• The ongoing Snowflake vs Databricks rivalry has moved to PostgreSQL, as both compete for developer mindshare and enterprise data dominance.

AI in Sports and Beyond

AI is transforming Indian sports analytics, with startups like KhiladiPro (founded by David Gladson) and ScoutEdge (founded by Satyendra Kumar) building solutions for performance insights and rural talent discovery. Yet experts like Rushil Munjal of Wicky.ai caution that AI cannot replace human judgment in scouting.

Elsewhere, Bhashini, India’s national language platform, continues its mission to democratize digital access. EkStep Foundation’s Shankar Maruwada shared his vision of technology serving those most in need. And at 91, John Blackman has become a “vibe coder,” building church event tools with AI, proving age is no barrier to learning.

The August 2025 issue of AIM Print weaves together stories of scale, resilience, and reinvention. From Preston Thorpe’s prison cell coding journey to IIT-Kanpur’s unicorn ambitions, from agentic AI startups to Red Hat’s open-source AI push, it captures the spirit of a tech industry in motion.

India’s AI story is no longer about catching up—it’s about shaping global narratives. This edition makes it clear that the momentum is real, and the stakes are higher than ever.

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At Build 2025, CTO Kevin Scott unveiled the Model Context Protocol and agentic computing in Windows 11, pitching an “HTTP for AI” with MCP and NLWeb. Azure AI Foundry now hosts thousands of models—from Grok 3 to GPT-4.1—promising a future where autonomous agents communicate as seamlessly as browsers and servers.

Cover Story: The Making of Naukri.com

Sanjeev Bikhchandani’s DIY start led to India’s premier job portal. With just ₹2 000 and hand-typed newspaper listings, he built Info Edge into a multi-billion-dollar powerhouse and now steers 150 AI engineers refining talent-matching algorithms.

GCC Corner: From Back Offices to GCC-as-a-Service

Shalini Mondal reports over 1 600 GCCs in India have evolved into full-blown innovation hubs. Karthik Padmanabhan, Ekroop Caur, and leaders at Diebold Nixdorf, BT Group, and Roche describe how Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech, Tech Mahindra, Cognizant (led by Sailaja Josyula) and LTIMindtree’s BlueVerse platform are packaging infrastructure, compliance, and AI expertise into plug-and-play offerings.

The $2 Trillion Tech Debt Dilemma

C P Balasubramanyam’s joint HFS Research/Publicis Sapient study exposes a $2 trillion backlog in legacy systems across the Global 2000. Only 30 percent of firms have fully modernized, with AI cited as the payoff pathway—but integration, talent gaps, and governance remain obstacles.

Startup Reset: AI, FDI & Founder Grit

Smruthi Nadig tracks a 96 percent plunge in net FDI to $353 million in FY25, a “reset” per Sanchit Vir Gogia. Moneyview’s $400 million IPO plans underscore investor caution: explainability, economics, and policy alignment now top founders’ decks.

The GPU Game: Sify’s Pay-Per-Use Model

CEO Sharad Agarwal unveils GPU hosting by the hour, partnering with Jio Platforms and NxtGen to attract U.S. cloud workloads to Mumbai, Chennai, and Noida. Part of IndiaAI’s push to deploy thousands of GPUs, this model turns expensive infrastructure into an elastic service.

Beyond Bots: The Human Side of AI Therapy

Merin Susan John explores AI chatbots’ limits with insights from Prathvi Nayak, Jason Phang, J K S Veettoor, Anil Seth, and Mahua Bisht. They agree: empathetic, human-led care remains irreplaceable, with hybrid models the healthiest path forward.

Green AI: ESG Compliance with SustainSense

Sprih CEO Akash Keshav’s custom LLM tackles emissions reporting for 1 200 units, while Fitsol’s data-confidence engine caught a 70 percent under-reporting of plastic waste. KPMG’s Namrata Rana calls validated ESG data essential as investors weigh climate and social risks.

Google’s AI Mode vs. The Ecosystem

At I/O, Sundar Pichai and Liz Reid rolled out AI Mode—multimodal search, live shopping, and camera-driven queries. Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas and Greyhound’s Sanchit Vir Gogia cheer on Google’s bet but see new space for specialist knowledge agents.

Developer & Deep Tech Briefs

• The Java Secret of Netflix: Custom JVM tuning fuels billions of viewing hours.
• Code Laugh Repeat: AI-powered jokes and memes from the dev community.
• Vahan AI & Sarvam AI: Blue-collar hiring tools and surgical robotics need human oversight.
• Indic LLMs & Beyond: Can home-grown language models rival global giants?
• Deep Tech Spotlight: UPI architect Vishal Kanvaty on rebuilding India’s payments, plus PM Modi’s chip-fab drive in Assam and Uttar Pradesh.

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The June 2025 edition of AIM Print is a compelling showcase of ambition, innovation, and impact across India’s AI and tech ecosystems. At the heart of this issue is a powerful conversation with Nitin Gadkari, India’s Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, revealing how India’s infrastructure revolution is being steered with intent, scale, and purpose.

The Man Driving India Forward

In the inaugural episode of “The Power Exchange” with Bhupendra Chaubey, Nitin Gadkari breaks down what it means to transform policy into execution. From rescuing Rs 3.85 lakh crore worth of stalled projects to pushing ethanol-powered vehicles and hydrogen cars, Gadkari shares how highways are becoming the backbone of India’s green and economic future. Delhi’s expressways, high-altitude AI-based reward systems, and his vision of flying double-decker buses paint a picture of radical, yet grounded governance.

AI and the Indian IT Reckoning

Mohit Pandey dives into the growing concern of AI washing across Indian IT majors like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and HCLTech. With little disclosure around GenAI revenue, despite public claims, the industry is under scrutiny. In contrast, Accenture is setting benchmarks with clear AI-related revenue. This piece asks a difficult question: Is Indian IT adapting fast enough or is it just riding the buzz?

Drones Over the Himalayas

Sanjana Gupta profiles Scandron, a Bengaluru-based drone startup transforming defense logistics. Its drones are replacing porters at 18,000 ft military posts, flying in -20°C, and now delivering solar panels and fertilisers too. Founder Arjun Naik discusses the company’s expansion into agriculture and internal logistics, along with his take on the actual (and often overstated) role of AI in drone tech.

The Rise of Vibe Coding

Siddharth Jindal explores the phenomenon of vibe coding among school students. From AI-built games on Replit to ChatGPT-driven website development, kids are skipping lunch to code. Yet, educators and technologists warn about the need for critical thinking, data privacy, and not losing sight of coding fundamentals.

Can VSCode Kill Cursor and Windsurf?

Ankush Das questions whether Microsoft is planning a subtle takedown of emerging AI-first code editors Cursor and Windsurf. With VS Code now integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP), and license changes limiting extension usage in forks, the developer ecosystem may soon see a shift.

Adobe vs Canva: AI Design Wars

Smruthi Nadig compares Adobe Firefly and Canva’s Magic Media tools. While Adobe leverages its content-safe ecosystem, Canva is fast becoming India’s favourite with a Hindi-language website and mass accessibility. The story isn’t about who has better tech, but who owns the creative workflow of the future.

Zoho’s Vibe Coding Vision

Zoho Creator’s new CoCreator feature takes center stage in Ankush Das’s feature on how the Indian SaaS firm is bringing prompt-based app development to businesses. Bharath Kumar from Zoho shares how their AI engine Zia is redefining low-code with context-driven automation.

India Eyes First AI IVF Baby

Smruthi Nadig returns with a detailed report on how India is backing AI-led IVF through a Rs 2,000 crore push under the IndiaAI Mission. The story highlights how automation and AI ranking systems are redefining success rates in fertility treatments, while exploring ethical and clinical challenges.

Y Combinator at 20: AI Startup Empire

Aditi Suresh revisits the history and future of Y Combinator, from backing OpenAI to funding India’s next AI unicorns. With insights from Kastle’s Rishi Choudhary and Vahan.ai’s Madhav Krishna, the story reflects YC’s growing interest in post-AGI startup themes and the 45% rise in Indian applications.

ChennAI Express & Goa’s Beach Work Future

With a spotlight on Chennai’s emerging AI ecosystem—19 data centres, AI research labs, and GCC strength—this edition also reports on Goa’s plan to set up coworking spaces on its beaches.

From policymakers to school kids, this issue spans the spectrum of how AI is intersecting with India’s future.

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May 2025 is our most grounded issue yet. Instead of speculating about distant horizons, we track the factories, launchpads, studios, and code repositories that already shape tomorrow’s economy. Every page is proof that India’s AI story has outgrown the booster stage—it is now about scale, capital discipline, and product‑market fit.

Private space, public ambition
The cover feature, “India’s Launchpad for Space,” opens at Sriharikota, where the new ISRO chair V Narayanan admits the agency still imports critical electronics. That honesty frames the rise of more than 150 private space‑tech startups—Skyroot, Agnikul, Pixxel, Dhruva Space—all chasing a forty‑four‑billion‑dollar market. Rocket science is no longer state monopoly; it is startup discipline backed by global capital.

Defence manufacturing breaks cover
Hyderabad‑based Zen Technologies moves simulator shipments from Africa to the United States while executives insist Indian hardware can meet NATO standards. A Gujarat supplier lands a contract for the first chip fab in Dholera. Together, these stories show that Make‑in‑India succeeds only when rockets, radars, and semiconductors share the same supply chain.

Generative voice meets political reach
Text‑to‑speech pioneer ElevenLabs lets the Prime Minister speak nine Indian languages with uncanny fidelity. The piece is not a fan letter; it weighs linguistic inclusion against deepfake risk and explains why voice cloning will soon need the same legal muscle as biometric data.

The agentic coding backlash
Early adopters swear by Cursor, Windsurf, Claude and the Model Context Protocol, yet a sidebar titled “Now It’s Time for Vibe Debugging” argues that autonomous agents break as often as they build. Clean code now demands emotional context and prompt hygiene—a sentence unthinkable two years ago.

Enterprise guardrails for runaway models
Our Top MLOps Service Providers 2025 ranking is the practical antidote. It measures vendors on drift detection, lineage, and continuous compliance instead of glossy dashboards. Tredence, Glean, Thoughtworks, Deloitte, Fractal and others reveal revenue splits that prove ops is where AI budgets actually land.

Big‑tech chessboard
A feature on OpenAI and Meta chasing distribution through Reliance reminds readers that telecom reach can outgun algorithmic elegance. Columnist Navaneeth Ramesh then dissects why Perplexity treats advertising, not Transformers, as Google’s real moat. The search wars are about funnels, not embeddings.

Creative cloud, creative code
Inside Adobe’s grand reinvention, CEO Shantanu Narayen and Coca‑Cola boss James Quincey walk us through a rebuilt Experience Platform. Agentic AI rewrites site code, deploys experiments, and negotiates growth targets in real time. The lesson is simple. In content workflows the human stays in charge only by steering fleets of micro‑agents.

Capital flows tell a harder truth
The AIM Research AI Startup Funding Report tracks seven‑hundred‑eighty‑million US dollars raised in India through Q1. Tiny teams—some only twelve engineers—already clock thirty‑to‑two‑hundred‑million‑dollar ARR. Venture partners from Blume, Accel, Peak XV confirm that fewer raises, fatter rounds, and faster revenue are the new norm.

Talent pipeline matters more than hype
We profile astronaut Sunita Williams mentoring girls in Gujarat, AI engineer Divya Kothamasu balancing launch‑site shifts with parenting, and MLOps lead Shubham Sinha turning a hobby project into a compliance feature at Flipkart. Their stories underline a theme that runs through the entire issue: it takes people, not just patents.

Play, learn, repeat
Finally, the AI Comic pokes fun at a chatbot that accidentally books a rocket launch while ordering a pizza, and the AI Game Zone quiz lets readers benchmark prompt‑craft skills against our editorial team. The back page carries a single‑sentence provocation. “If your model cannot debate its own carbon footprint, is it really intelligent?”

AIM Print May 2025 covers space, semiconductors, defence, voice synthesis, agentic coding, MLOps, funding velocity, and talent pipelines in one coherent arc. The takeaway is blunt. India no longer competes on cost or headcount. It competes on IP, vertical integration, and time‑to‑market. That is the story we document this month—without hyperbole, without nostalgia, and with every metric that matters.

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The April 2025 issue of AIM Magazine captures a vivid tapestry of technological innovations, transformative industry insights, and influential leaders making waves across the AI ecosystem.

This edition’s striking cover story, “L&D 2.0,” addresses India’s critical mission to align its workforce with emerging AI trends. Led by trailblazers such as Srikanth Vachaspati from Siemens Technology and Services India, Joanna Orkusz at EY Global Delivery Services, and Shalini Modi at Genpact, Indian enterprises are deploying microlearning, gamified training, and personalized pathways to bridge the AI skill gap.

In an exciting exclusive, Cameron Adams, co-founder of Canva, discusses India’s growing obsession with AI-powered background removal, revealing Canva’s plans to launch a Hindi-language platform soon. Adams emphasizes that the vibrant Indian market, now Canva’s fourth-largest globally, is redefining digital design through entrepreneurial spirit and local innovation.

Highlighting India’s renewable energy transformation, Skylark Drones emerges as a critical player. Co-founder Mughilan Thiru Ramasamy reveals their significant role in the ‘PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana’, using AI-powered drones to automate solar panel inspections across Indian cities, effectively boosting solar infrastructure quality and safety.

On the global stage, AT&T’s bold move towards workforce upskilling under CEO Santosh Bijur’s guidance underscores AI’s non-negotiable role in future skillsets. Similarly notable is Walmart’s introduction of Wallaby, their proprietary LLM suite enhancing retail customer interactions, as detailed by Sriprabha Gopalan from Walmart Global Tech.

India’s startup ecosystem also sees intriguing advancements—NeoSapien’s founders Dhananjay Yadav and Aryan Yadav are creating AI pendants that serve as ‘second brains’, aiding users to effortlessly manage daily tasks. Meanwhile, Hyderabad’s innovative startups transform traditional chatbots into engaging 3D AI entities.

Adding to AI adoption insights, AIM Research’s report reveals a sharp rise in AI startup funding in India, hitting approximately $780.5 million in 2024, with significant contributions from startups like Kore.ai, Krutrim AI, Atlan, EMA, and Neysa Networks.

Furthermore, the magazine spotlights diverse AI applications—from Clearview AI’s controversial facial recognition technology to Wells Fargo’s Fargo chatbot securely handling over 245 million customer interactions without data leaks. Gartner’s concerning prediction about fake AI-driven job applicants further emphasizes the urgency of robust AI governance.

This issue encapsulates how India—and the world—is navigating the rapid transformations sparked by AI, blending deep dives into industry-shaking innovations with the visionary insights of those steering this revolution.

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AIM Media House has just unveiled the March 2025 edition of its flagship print magazine, “AI INSIDER V25.03.06,” offering a panoramic view of how artificial intelligence is transforming industries and redefining global business dynamics. This edition covers a wide spectrum of topics—from India’s booming Global Capability Centres (GCCs) to groundbreaking shifts in robotics, filmmaking, and digital policy.

The cover story spotlights India’s GCC revolution with insights from Lalit Ahuja, CEO of ANSR, who explains how these centres—from Tier‑1 hubs in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Mumbai to emerging nano and micro GCCs in Tier‑2 and Tier‑3 cities—are reshaping global business operations. The magazine also features in-depth commentary on state-led initiatives in Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu, along with economic perspectives from GV Joshi (former member of the Karnataka State Planning Board) and Sid Tipnis of Deloitte India. The Union Budget 2025, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is examined for its bold vision on tech spending and digital inclusion, with additional views from chief economic advisor V Anantha Nageswaran.

In the realm of technology and innovation, the edition does not hold back. It highlights how NVIDIA is pivoting from a semiconductor giant to a leader in robotics. Jensen Huang’s vision for robotics is explored through the launch of the Cosmos platform, as explained by Huang himself, along with commentary from Dylan Patel, founder of Semianalysis, and Jim Fan, NVIDIA’s senior research manager for Embodied AI. Industry heavyweights like Oracle—with Larry Ellison’s transformative journey since 1977—Google DeepMind, and Siemens Technology and Services also find their place in the narrative, emphasizing the global race for advanced AI and digital transformation.

On the creative front, the magazine takes a fresh look at how AI is influencing Indian cinema. Renowned Kannada filmmaker MG Srinivas shares his experience of testing AI in voice cloning for films like “Ghost” and reflects on the challenges of integrating high-tech solutions in low-budget environments. AIM Tech Journalist Vidyashree Srinivas brings out the nuanced debate on whether traditional filmmaking can hold its ground against disruptive AI technologies.

The edition further explores AI’s societal impact, featuring perspectives from Shekar Sivasubramanian, CEO of Wadhwani AI, on the importance of building trust with the diverse “AI for Bharat” – a concept that bridges the urban-rural divide and ensures technology is accessible in local languages. Insights from Nikhil Malhotra of Tech Mahindra, Ankush Sabharwal of CoRover and BharatGPT, and voices from startups like smallest.ai, Gnani.ai (co-founded by Ganesh Gopalan), and Navana.ai (led by Raoul Nanavati) underscore how innovative solutions are addressing real-world challenges through voice-enabled AI and other modalities.

From global giants like Amazon and Oracle to pioneering startups and government initiatives, the March edition of AIM Print encapsulates the vibrant interplay of technology, policy, and innovation that is driving India’s ascent as a global leader in AI and digital transformation.

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Chris Miller, the author of Chip War, discusses India’s growing role in the global semiconductor industry. He emphasizes the importance of global collaboration, the need for India to focus on chip design, and the challenges in manufacturing. The article highlights India’s Viksit Bharat 2047 vision and the country’s ambitions to become a semiconductor powerhouse.

Key Features and Stories:

1. Cockroach Labs: Built to Survive
   The New York-based database company, CockroachDB, is making its mark in the database industry, competing with Oracle and MongoDB. CEO Spencer Kimball shares insights on the company’s expansion in Bengaluru and the need for resilient systems.
2. Chip Pe Charcha in Bengaluru
   A deep dive into India’s semiconductor ambitions and the geopolitical shifts shaping the industry. The article covers insights from key industry leaders discussing India’s role in global chip manufacturing.
3. AI Meets Bengaluru Traffic
   JCP M N Anucheth discusses how AI is helping the Bengaluru Traffic Police manage one of India’s most congested cities. The integration of AI in traffic management, digital twins, and LLMs for FIR analysis are key takeaways.
4. Will AI End India’s $30 Billion Customer Support Industry?
   AI-driven chatbots and automation are reshaping the customer support industry, with companies like Salesforce and Klarna reducing human involvement. The article examines Indian startups leading this transformation, such as Gupshup, Exotel, and Skit.ai.
5. Meet Shivaay: The Indian AI Model Inspired by Yann LeCun
   Indian AI startup FuturixAI, founded by students Rudransh Agnihotri and Manasvi Kapoor, has built Shivaay, an AI model leveraging joint embedding architectures from Llama 2, Qwen, and Gemma. The model is designed for Indian use cases, challenging global players like OpenAI.
6. Outcome-Based Pricing: AI’s Ultimate Buzzkill
   A look into the growing trend of AI pricing models, the high costs associated with AI services, and how businesses are navigating these challenges.
7. Bengaluru: The GCC Hub of India
   Bengaluru remains the leader in Global Capability Centres (GCCs) with over 875 units, serving as a critical hub for multinational corporations.
8. Top AI Institutes in India 2025
   A ranking of hybrid and online AI courses in India, evaluating programs on curriculum quality, engagement, and industry relevance.
9. Killing Cancer with Genomics and AI
   The role of AI in revolutionizing cancer treatment, shifting from standardized approaches to precision medicine.
10. LTIMindtree’s AI Strategy
    Indian IT companies, including LTIMindtree, are leveraging AI beyond buzzwords to drive real business impact.
11. How OpenAI Helped Lowe’s Redefine Retail
    Lowe’s collaboration with OpenAI to enhance its AI-driven retail experience.
12. India’s Quantum Communication Initiative
    A new quantum key distribution (QKD) technology is being tested in Ladakh to secure communications against future quantum threats.
13. Marvell Technology Expands in India
    Marvell aims for $1 million in revenue per employee as it expands operations in India.
14. Satya Nadella’s Microsoft AI Tour in Bengaluru
    Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella visits Bengaluru to showcase AI advancements and future enterprise solutions.
15. LLMs That Failed in 2024
    An analysis of large language models that struggled in 2024, with DeepSeek V3 emerging as a key player in open-source AI.
16. VCs Betting on India’s AI Middle Class
    Investors are focusing on AI solutions for India’s vast middle class, recognizing it as the largest segment poised to benefit from AI-driven innovations.
17. CBSE Fails AI
    An opinion piece on how India’s education system is failing to integrate AI in meaningful ways.
18. Oracle’s Exadata X11M Beats AWS and Azure
    Oracle’s latest AI-optimized database claims superiority over AWS and Azure in key performance areas.

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The January 2025 edition of AIM Print shines a spotlight on transformative AI developments and the visionaries shaping the future. This issue highlights pioneering figures, disruptive startups, and India’s growing dominance in the AI landscape.

Cover Story: Pragya Misra – OpenAI’s Face in India

OpenAI’s ambitious entry into India is being driven by Pragya Misra, the company’s first and only employee in the country. With India emerging as OpenAI’s second-largest user base, Misra’s role encompasses building partnerships with developers, policymakers, and the tech community. Misra believes that if AI solutions work for India, they can scale globally, reflecting India’s unique diversity and innovation potential. She emphasizes OpenAI’s commitment to empowering local startups through tools, credits, and technical support​.

AI Without a PhD? Think Again

Meta AI’s chief Yann LeCun advises aspiring AI entrepreneurs in India to pursue advanced academic degrees to navigate the complexities of AI. He suggests that technical expertise, often gained through PhDs, plays a pivotal role in building successful AI startups. This aligns with a growing sentiment that foundational knowledge, rather than surface-level skills, will drive the next wave of AI innovation​.

Nikhil Kamath’s Bet on Young Innovators

Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s ‘Innovators under 25’ initiative, supported by WTFund, is nurturing India’s youngest and brightest entrepreneurs. This year, nine startups across AI, healthcare, and sustainable technology received non-equity grants of up to INR 20 lakh. Kamath’s unconventional approach focuses on supporting talent without taking ownership, encouraging entrepreneurs to retain full control of their startups​.

Key initiatives under WTFund include:

• Mars Computers – Cloud-based high-performance computing for creative professionals.
• BioCompute – DNA-based data storage solutions addressing scalability and sustainability.
• RNT Health Insights – AI-powered diagnostics for gastric cancer, enhancing medical accuracy during endoscopy.
• Pixa AI – Interactive AI-powered educational toys reducing screen time for children.
• CallPrep – AI-driven pre-meeting sales preparation software enhancing productivity​.

India’s AI Momentum – Leading the Charge in 2025

India is rapidly positioning itself as a hub for AI agents and generative models. The country’s engineering talent and focus on application-driven AI are propelling India ahead. This edition highlights how Indian startups are developing domain-specific AI models, reflecting the trend of local innovation with global implications​.

Turing’s Dream – Paras Chopra’s Vision

Paras Chopra, founder of Wingify and creator of ‘Inverted Passion,’ is pursuing AGI through his initiative, Turing’s Dream. This residency program provides cloud GPUs and a collaborative environment for AI researchers to build cutting-edge projects. Chopra believes that AI systems need more than brute-force data scaling, advocating for the integration of external symbolic agents to improve reasoning

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The November 2024 edition of AIM Print is a powerhouse of insights, covering some of the most critical developments in AI. From generative AI transforming cybersecurity to the rise of robotics and localized AI innovations in India, this issue is packed with stories of ambition, challenges, and cutting-edge breakthroughs.

Generative AI’s Role in Cybersecurity

The report on the GenAI-powered Cybersecurity Vendor Landscape reveals how generative AI is tackling one of the industry’s biggest challenges: a critical shortage of skilled professionals. With nearly 4 million open cybersecurity roles globally, tools powered by generative AI are stepping in to bridge this gap. Companies like IBM, which pioneered AI in cybersecurity with Watson, are now joined by others leveraging large language models (LLMs) to automate threat detection, simulate attacks, and enhance overall security posture.

AIM Research’s Penetration and Maturity (PeMa) Quadrant highlights key vendors innovating in this space. From AI copilots assisting IT teams to autonomous AI agents monitoring networks, the tools redefining cybersecurity are a testament to the power of combining advanced analytics with automation.

Physical AI: Redefining Robotics in Healthcare

Under NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, robotics has moved from industrial applications to life-changing healthcare solutions. In this issue, Kimberly Powell, Vice President of Healthcare at NVIDIA, details how tools like NVIDIA Omniverse are enabling breakthroughs such as virtual surgery simulations and AI-powered imaging platforms.

Startups like Atlas Meditech and Moon Surgical are adopting NVIDIA’s MONAI and Clara platforms to design robotic assistants and surgical rehearsal environments. These advancements underscore how Physical AI is revolutionizing patient care and medical training.

Vayu Robotics: Building the Future of Affordable Robotics

In the robotics segment, Vayu Robotics stands out with its innovative approach to creating affordable and safe robots. Co-founded by Mahesh Krishnamurthi, former Apple engineer, along with Anand Gopalan and Nitish Srivastava, the startup focuses on using simulated data to train its robots, significantly cutting costs.

Backed by Khosla Ventures and Lockheed Martin Ventures, Vayu Robotics is not only building intelligent robots but also addressing real-world safety concerns by developing low-mass, low-speed robots designed for urban environments. The company’s first deployment of 2,500 robots across U.S. cities marks a milestone in scalable robotics.

GCCs: India’s Secret Weapon in Healthcare

The issue highlights the critical role of Global Capability Centers (GCCs) in advancing healthcare in India. According to a Nasscom-Zinnov report, GCCs will generate $64.6 billion in export revenue by 2024, employing 1.9 million professionals.

Balasubramanian Sankaranarayanan, CEO of Thryve Digital, explains how GCCs like theirs are cutting operational costs by 20% while driving innovation in drug discovery, diagnostics, and claims processing. With 80 healthcare-focused GCCs employing over 250,000 people in India, these hubs are reshaping global healthcare while showcasing India’s strengths in talent and scalability.

Meta’s Llama 3.1: Empowering Indian Startups

Meta’s Yann LeCun introduced the Llama 3.1 405B model earlier this year, creating a ripple effect across India’s AI ecosystem. Leaders like Nandan Nilekani emphasize that the model’s open-source availability allows Indian startups to build small, localized language models for Indic languages without the high costs of developing LLMs from scratch.

Startups such as Sarvam AI, led by Vivek Raghavan, are using Llama 3.1 to develop efficient, task-specific AI models. Sarvam’s latest creation, Sarvam-1, outperforms several global models in Indic tasks, showcasing the potential of localized innovation.

India’s LLM Dilemma

Despite the buzz around AI, India lags in creating large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 or France’s Mistral AI. Mohandas Pai, former CFO of Infosys, argues that this gap stems from a lack of capital and infrastructure. While companies like Krutrim and Sarvam AI are making strides in niche applications, large-scale investments in R&D are necessary to close the gap.

Pai advocates for a government-led innovation fund to support AI development, echoing initiatives like France’s $36 billion fund that powers Mistral AI. Without such support, India risks being limited to smaller, vertical-specific AI models.

The Road Ahead

This issue also delves into the adoption barriers of AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT in India, with many developers citing affordability and privacy concerns. Jarvislabs.ai’s Vishnu Subramanian sheds light on the challenges of promoting AI tools in a market where cost-consciousness often stifles adoption.

Amid these hurdles, there’s a silver lining. From NVIDIA’s healthcare robotics to Meta’s push for Indic LLMs, the November 2024 edition of AIM Print highlights how collaboration and innovation are driving AI’s transformative potential in India and beyond.

For those eager to stay at the forefront of AI trends, this edition is a must-read.

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AIM has rolled out its latest monthly print and digital edition, offering a comprehensive exploration of the evolving AI landscape. This issue underscores AIM’s position as a leading voice in AI journalism, delivering authoritative content that informs and inspires. The October 2024 edition brings together industry insights, exclusive interviews, and research-backed reports, making it a must-read for tech enthusiasts and professionals alike.

The cover story highlights India’s much-anticipated “UPI Moment” in AI, featuring perspectives from key innovators like Pramod Varma, the architect behind India’s digital transformation. Varma shares his vision of leveraging AI to solve real-world problems rather than merely competing to build large language models. The edition also dives deep into India’s semiconductor mission and the potential for collaboration between industry and academia to boost innovation.

Further enriching this edition is a report on the vendor landscape for synthetic data providers, a crucial component in the privacy-centric AI ecosystem. AIM Research offers detailed analyses on emerging startups, industry applications, and market trends. Readers can also explore features on groundbreaking AI implementations by leading organizations, including Jio’s ambitious AI initiatives aimed at transforming India’s digital infrastructure.

With its blend of hard-hitting analysis and forward-looking narratives, AIM’s latest edition continues to serve as an invaluable resource for those navigating the dynamic world of artificial intelligence.

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The September 2024 issue of AIM Magazine offers a deep dive into the evolving world of artificial intelligence, with a special focus on OpenAI and its leadership. The feature questions whether OpenAI, with its diverse research and development efforts, is spreading itself too thin or staying at the forefront of AI advancements. Profiles of key figures like Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, and Andrej Karpathy highlight the company’s ongoing projects and the team driving these innovations. The issue also explores how the organization’s role in the AI ecosystem has changed, sparking important discussions on specialization versus generalization in the AI industry.

This edition also emphasizes the transformative impact of generative AI in healthcare and life sciences, specifically in India. With AWS playing a prominent role in facilitating these advancements, the article showcases how AI-driven technologies are reshaping patient care, medical research, and drug development. By focusing on real-world applications, the magazine underscores how generative AI is not just a buzzword but a powerful tool that’s democratising access to critical health innovations, leading to faster, more efficient solutions across the industry.

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