AIM Print May 2025 Edition

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 ambitionThe 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 b