Artificial Intelligence
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has laid out a five-year plan committing 3.8 trillion yuan to more than quadruple national AI computing capacity to 9,800 exaflops by 2030.
Aravind Kumar
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Audio-storytelling platform Kuku Technologies plans to hire 1,000 people by the end of the financial year to build out its AI-powered content creation unit, leveraging its AI Storytelling Stack.
Bengaluru's Navana.ai, a sovereign voice-AI platform built for regulated enterprises, has raised Rs 40 crore in a Series A round led by entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala to scale its Indian-language speech models across BFSI.
Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma has predicted that autonomous AI agents with OS-level access will replace smartphone apps by 2027, forecasting a decisive shift toward machine-executed, multi-step tasks.
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, an upgraded AI agent emphasising improved coding capability, instruction-following and longer-running autonomous task execution.
Gimlet Labs has raised $300 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, reaching a $3 billion valuation just six months after its previous round, as investors bet on AI compute orchestration software.
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, is reportedly in advanced talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion.
South Korean gaming giant KRAFTON has committed $250 million toward Indian artificial intelligence and deeptech startups, extending its long-running bet on India's technology ecosystem beyond gaming.
Google DeepMind has released Gemini 3.8 Flash alongside a security-focused Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber variant with advanced vulnerability detection, keeping the more capable cyber model behind restricted access.