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OpenAI–Anthropic Rivalry: Decoding the Altman–Amodei hand-holding snub

The two now helm the world’s most valuable closely held AI firms: OpenAI, valued at roughly $500 billion, and Anthropic at about $380 billion

Nvidia, OpenAI near $30 billion investment in place of unfinished $100 billion deal: Report

The deal, which would be part of a new funding round for the artificial intelligence start-up, could be finalized as early as this weekend, the report said

Nandan Nilekani lauds PM Modi's vision, says India will lead world in showing how AI diffusion can improve lives of people

Nilekani recalled how PM Modi gave them a suggestion to extend AI application to dairy besides agriculture.

'Thank God there is AI': Tata Group chair N Chandrasekaran bets on AI to fix cities, inequality, healthcare

N Chandrasekaran says India’s 'AI moment' has arrived, urging technology to tackle inequality, healthcare and urban gaps at the AI Impact Summit.

“AI is not optics for us; real work is happening in Karnataka,” says Siddaramaiah; state signs innovation pacts with Paris’ VivaTech, Poland’s Katowice

Agreements aim to give Karnataka startups direct access to European markets as Bengaluru doubles down on AI skilling and public tech investments

AI Summit: Here's why Lightspeed’s Bejul Somaia sees India’s AI future in applications, not infrastructure

The venture investor said India’s advantage in AI lies in building context-driven applications rather than competing in large model development, as falling costs of intelligence reshape healthcare, education and startup building.

India AI Summit: Countries that adopt, adopt and adopt model for AI will lead the way, says former British PM Rishi Sunak

Speaking at the AI summit in India, Sunak said nothing in our lifetimes would be “more transformative” than AI

India can become one of world’s most consequential environments for AI applications: Wipro’s Rishad Premji

Premji highlighted how India working on AI would mean, “solving problems for a billion people”, making it a critical market for global tech enterprises with whom the nation already has strong ties with.

‘Jiska data, uska adhikar’: What PM Modi’s data sovereignty pitch really means

Modi’s ‘jiska data, uska adhikar’ links privacy law, jurisdiction and Budget 2026’s AI data-centre tax holiday. What it means for citizens and Big Tech.

AI Summit: The India opportunity is large; a quarter of our researchers are Indian, says Mistral's Arthur Mensch

The Mistral CEO warned against concentration of AI power among a handful of companies, urged countries to build sovereign AI capabilities, and called India uniquely positioned to emerge as a global innovation hub.

Red Hat helping enterprises move from AI pilots to scaled deployment; says India among top three APAC markets

As AI moves from support functions into core business operations, Bal said concerns around governance, security, data control, model sizing, and deployment environments become critical.

Mukesh Ambani outlines RIL's Rs 10-lakh-crore plans to fuel India's AI growth: Read full speech

RIL chairman delivered a keynote address at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19

‘Was sort of confused': OpenAI’s Sam Altman on awkward exchange with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei at AI summit

I was sort of confused, like when he (PM Modi) grabbed my hand and put it up. I just wasn't sure what we were supposed to be doing, Sam Altman told Moneycontrol

Incredible small language AI models emerging at low costs in India: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

"I didn't think then, and I don't think now, that you can make a frontier model for $10 million. In fact, if anything, I would just say that it's gotten harder. The total complexity and costs have gone up," Sam Altman told Moneycontrol.

Fractal launches healthcare reasoning model Vaidya 2.0 at India AI summit

The company claims that Vaidya 2.0 has outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Gemini Pro 3 on healthcare reasoning benchmark

OpenAI's Altman claims world is just 'couple of years' away from true super intelligence: 'Would do a better job than me'

Altman flagged concerns of centralization of the technology in one company or nation, highlighting that such cases could lead to potential 'ruin'

AI Summit: Can India achieve 20-25% growth because of AI? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is optimistic

From language inclusion and farmer tools to the prospect of 25 percent growth, Amodei says India offers the clearest test case for whether artificial intelligence can deliver real-world benefits at scale

AI Summit: In AI, the race to the bottom is faster than the race to the top, says Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani

The resentment of the blue collar workers led to the train wreck of globalisation. The resentment of the white collar workers is going to lead to the train wreck of AI, Nilekani said.

India AI Summit: Biggest AI opportunity lies in bridging gap between LLMs and enterprises, says Vishal Sikka

India should go beyond simply adopting current AI and focus on building safer and more efficient systems, the former Infosys CEO and founder of Vianai Systems has said

AI can't solve this: OpenAI's Altman, Anthropic's Amodei avoid holding hands at AI Summit as rivalry heats up

Altman and Amodei shared the dais with Modi and other technology executives, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai

AI Impact Summit: New Delhi Frontier AI pact “commits” firms to publish anonymised AI usage data, test models for multilingual, local contexts

Voluntary framework unveiled by Ashwini Vaishnaw pushes transparency in AI adoption and culturally grounded evaluations

OPINION | Purposeful Personalisation: AI-driven transformation in financial engagement

Financial institutions must move beyond generic outreach. They should adopt unified platforms and agentic AI to deliver timely, personalised, context-aware engagement. This builds trust, boosts conversion, and increases customer lifetime value

AI agents are hiring humans now. Should we worry?

Two new platforms — one where AI hires humans for real-world tasks, another where bots chat among themselves — are sparking big fears. The reality is more interesting than the panic.

OPINION | The AI threat to Indian IT services is real but the doom narrative is overblown

Markets often swing between excessive optimism and excessive pessimism. The recent correction reflects genuine uncertainty. Yet writing off Indian IT as structurally impaired is not well-thought through 

TCS raises quarterly variable pay out to 80% for mid and senior-level employees in Q3

This is a big shift coming after nearly two years of quarterly variable allowance being slashed to 20-50 percent for the mid and senior-level employees

BIS says AI could widen the global divide. Can India's summit help close it?

While India is hosting its Global AI summit, the central bankers' central bank published a paper explaining why emerging economies have the most to lose from AI's rise--and what can be done to change that

Don’t let digital divide become AI divide: Google CEO Sundar Pichai

Pichai said AI represents the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes — but its promise is neither automatic nor guaranteed.

OpenAI to open new offices in Bengaluru and Mumbai later this year

India is one of the biggest market for OpenAI's ChatGPT with 100 million weekly users.

Bill Gates to skip AI Impact Summit amid Epstein row, confirms Gates Foundation

For the past few days, there were several reports speculating the participation of the Microsoft co-founder, who is already on a visit to India, amid the controversy over Epstein links

Has AI punctured FMCG type valuation narrative of IT stocks?

AI and new technologies have induced business and revenue uncertainty for IT companies

AI Summit 2026 Live Updates: Altman says super intelligence would do better job than human scientists, CEOs in few years

The day 4 of the mega event will see global leaders and tech titans share their thoughts on the role played by the rapidly growing technology in shaping the world's future

There are more consumer AI startups in India than in US: Meta's Alexandr Wang at AI Summit

At India AI Impact Summit, Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said we are at the beginning of a true acceleration in technology and 2026 will mark an inflection point in many ways.

AI Summit: Democratising flawed AI models could amplify risks, warns Subbarao Kambhhampati

Correctness must come before ethics and inclusiveness debates, says Arizona State University professor

PM Modi to inaugurate India AI Impact Summit 2026 on Thursday: Full itinerary

The PM will visit and inaugurate the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on February 19. On the sidelines, he will also hold bilateral meetings with several world leaders attending the summit

AI pioneer LeCun endorses India's AI leadership role, says 'Modi has India moving in right direction'

Yann LeCun, Professor at NYU and Executive Chairman at AMI Labs, who formerly served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta, has thrown his weight behind India's approach to artificial intelligence development.

AI Summit: Language data gaps limit AI progress beyond dominant languages, says Alice Oh

Researcher flags structural and cost barriers in building inclusive multilingual models

L&T ties up with NVIDIA to build gigawatt-scale AI factory under India AI Mission

The partnership targets India's enterprises, policymakers, industry leaders, global offtakers and analysts seeking production-grade AI capacity amid the country's digital and industrial transformation.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says India can be a full-stack AI nation

Google CEO says the country is entering a decade-long AI transformation that could reshape everyday life

IIT Bombay’s BharatGen unveils 17B parameter sovereign multilingual AI model at India AI Impact Summit

In a bid to encourage ecosystem participation, BharatGen will also release the model, documentation and post-training workflows through its Hugging Face repository.

OpenAI partners with MakeMyTrip, expands ties with ixigo to deepen AI-led travel discovery

Advanced AI is not just about enterprises and how they use it internally, but how they can also transform their consumers’ experience and engagement with the platform, said OpenAI's Managing Director, International, Oliver Jay on the partnership.

Google plans new fiber-optic routes between the US and India

The America-India Connect initiative, will deliver new fiber-optic lines to improve the speed and reliability of connectivity between India and other countries.

Gnani.ai launches AI voice model that can clone voices in 12 Indian languages

Released under the India AI Mission, Vachana TTS targets government and enterprise use with human-like speech and low error rates

Sarvam AI launches 30B and 105B models, says 105B outperforms DeepSeek R1 and Gemini Flash on key benchmarks

Startup unveils two mixture-of-experts LLMs trained from scratch as part of India’s sovereign AI push

Google DeepMind partners with Indian government to offer access to frontier AI science models

Indian researchers and engineers will get access to Google DeepMind's collection of AI models and tools including AlphaGenome, Earth AI, and AI Co-scientist.

AI-led GCCs expedite drug development cycles, lower costs, says report

In clinical trials, AI-led patient recruitment, trial design and real-time analytics are shortening development cycles by four to six years while improving success rates, KPMG in India and UnearthIQ have said in a report

AI Summit: Governments are not doing anything about job loss concerns, says Godfather of AI Yoshua Bengio

Now, what makes it complicated is that the wealth may be created in some countries (but) jobs lost in another country. A global redistribution (plan) is right now out of sight, he told Moneycontrol in an interview.

AI Summit: I don’t know anyone who uses Grokipedia, it will never work, says Jimmy Wales

"One of Wikipedia’s core values in neutrality. The idea that we are 'Wokepedia' is not true," Wales told Moneycontrol.

AI Summit: Big techs not investing enough in risk management, says Godfather of AI Yoshua Bengio

“Companies are hatching the problems one after the other. They don't really have an answer to the question, ‘Is this going to be safe?’ They don't know,” he told Moneycontrol in an interview.

Upstart Sarvam unveils AI model customized for India market

Sarvam’s models are built to be used through voice commands and are accessible through 22 Indian languages

Nvidia ties up with Peak XV, Accel India to fund next wave of Indian AI startups

The AI chip giant said it will partner Peak XV, Elevation Capital, Nexus Venture and Accel India as it steps up its India bet