BUSINESS
Why Mangaluru is emerging as the new tech ‘Plus One’ to Bengaluru
From ‘Back to Ooru’ founders to GCC expansions and a data centre push, India’s coastal city is positioning itself as a sustainable, high-productivity alternative to metro tech hubs.
TECHNOLOGY
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.
TECHNOLOGY
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.
TECHNOLOGY
AI Summit: "You need the best of model and product at enterprise scale" ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski on the Sarvam AI threat
ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski spoke to Moneycontrol about why India is important to the voice AI company, Bengaluru office plans, and expanding their offerings beyond voice
TECHNOLOGY
AI Summit: Nvidia deepens India push with AI factories, sovereign cloud collaborations
Nvidia's India AI partnerships range from cloud providers to global system integrators and major industrial software firms.
BUSINESS
Anthropic India revenue run rate doubled since October; Enterprises key to last-mile AI integration, says Irina Ghose
When asked about the recent sell-off in the Indian IT stocks due to Claude Cowork, Ghose told Moneycontrol the intent is to "complement, coexist (and) build things together".
TECHNOLOGY
AI Summit: Invideo, Google Cloud unveil expanded partnership to debut AI filmmaking workflows
Invideo is set to showcase these workflows at the upcoming India AI Film Festival that will be held on February 17 in New Delhi, in conjunction with the AI Impact Summit.
TECHNOLOGY
Inside Sarvam AI’s rapid-fire launches ahead of the India AI Impact Summit
From live AI dubbing of the Union Budget to speech, vision, and state-backed compute infrastructure, Sarvam AI is rolling out a broad stack of products in the run-up to the India AI Impact Summit.
STARTUP
JetSynthesys buys EverMerge from Big Fish Games to bolster its global gaming footprint
JetSynthesys plans to scale EverMerge’s reach into new high-growth regions including India.
TECHNOLOGY
YouTube's revenue surpassed $60 billion in 2025, says Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
Google now has 325 million paid subscriptions across consumer services, led by strong adoption for Google One and YouTube Premium, said Sundar Pichai.
TECHNOLOGY
Google parent set to double 2026 spending to $185 billion amid intensifying AI race
Alphabet's aggressive AI spending comes on the back of strong revenue growth momentum. It crossed the $400 billion annual revenue mark for the first time.
BUSINESS
ElevenLabs bags $500M at $11B valuation; eyes global expansion including Bengaluru
ElevenLabs generated over $330 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025. India is the second-largest enterprise revenue market globally.
TECHNOLOGY
Netflix's India 2026 slate: Alakh Pandey drama, business dynasty wars, and new reality TV formats
Netflix has unveiled its 2026 lineup of movies and TV series for the Indian market, which is emerging as a crucial region for its future growth.
TECHNOLOGY
Budget's AVGC labs proposal a 'landmark step', will expand creative talent pool, top executives say
In Budget 2026, FM Nirmala Sitharaman proposed to support IICT in setting up AVGC Content Creator labs with an outlay of Rs 250 crore
TECHNOLOGY
Meta India's net profit grows 28.3% to Rs 647.5 crore in FY25; Gross ad revenue up 29%
Meta India's revenue from operations grew by 25 percent YoY to Rs 3,792.9 crore in FY25 while total expenses increased by 22.6 percent.
STARTUP
Zupee cuts 200 jobs amid organisational restructuring
Zupee said it intends to sharpen focus on core growth areas including culturally-rooted online social games and emerging content formats.
TECHNOLOGY
Google India's gross FY25 ad revenue rises 11.3% to Rs 34,742 crore
Google India's revenue from operations saw a rare 3 percent decline to Rs 5,340.1 crore, down from Rs 5,518.1 crore the previous year.
TECHNOLOGY
India's AI strategy should be application-led over frontier model development, says Economic Survey 2026
The Economic Survey notes that India's strategy must also encourage innovation on open-source and open-weight platforms which will enable the country to achieve more with less resources.
TECHNOLOGY
2026 will be the year AI 'dramatically' changes the way Meta works, says Mark Zuckerberg
AI agents are "really beginning to work," unlocking the ability to build completely new products and transform how the company works, said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
TECHNOLOGY
Meta signals massive 2026 AI spending surge, plans up to $135 billion outlay
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that 2026 will be a big year for delivering personal super intelligence, building infrastructure for the future, and shaping how the company will work going forward
BUSINESS
Davos 2026: Govt to release online gaming rules within 15 days, says Ashwini Vaishnaw
In an interview to Moneycontrol, union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said they have had a 'tremendous amount' of consultation with various stakeholders.
BUSINESS
Pocket FM ropes in former Meta scientist Vasu Sharma to spearhead its AI efforts
Former Meta AI scientist Vasu Sharma said he will focus on advancing the Pocket LLMs and bolstering Pocket FM's creative assistant, AI CoPilot, for writers everywhere.
TECHNOLOGY
Davos 2026: Indian govt taking a responsible, thoughtful approach to AI innovation, says Meta's Joel Kaplan
Meta's global policy chief Joel Kaplan told Moneycontrol that application layer is the right place for India to make the investment since the scale of investment to build foundation models is quite significant.
TECHNOLOGY
Davos 2026: India 'hugely important' for Meta's wearable and AI device strategy, says CTO Andrew Bosworth
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told Moneycontrol at Davos 2026 that the social media giant is eager to bring its wearables to India, since the demand has been huge.
