From discussions between Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on advancing India’s AI ambitions to the investment plans announced by Microsoft and Qualcomm, YourStory brings you today’s headlines with the latest developments across sectors.
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Arrowhead aims to build conversational AI that directly impacts business outcomes
What if voice agents engage in natural conversations for as long as 20 minutes, without customers realising they are speaking to AI? What if these AI bots go beyond automation to achieve business outcomes that top-performing human agents are capable of?
This is what Bengaluru-based AI startup Arrowhead aims to achieve. For decades, banks and NBFCs have relied on large teams of call-centre agents to drive sales, collections, and renewals. But this is expensive, inconsistent, and difficult to scale. Read more
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PM Modi, Sundar Pichai discuss boosting India’s AI ambitions
Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, met at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi on Wednesday to discuss accelerating India’s artificial innotifyigence (AI) ambitions and deepening Google’s role in talent development, digital infrastructure, and sectoral transformation.
“It was a delight to meet Mr. Sundar Pichai on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in Delhi. Talked about the work India is doing in AI and how Google can work with our talented students and professionals in this field,” PM Modi declared in a post on X. Read more
Microsoft on pace to invest $50B into AI for Global South
Microsoft announced it is on pace to invest $50 billion by the finish of the decade to support bring artificial innotifyigence (AI) to countries across the Global South and unveiled measures to bridge the gap with the more advanced Global North.
Microsoft highlighted the five-pronged measures to bridge the gap between the Global North and South. This announcement was built during the ongoing India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. Read more
OpenAI partners with higher education institutions in India
ChatGPT buildr OpenAI is teaming up with a cohort of higher education institutions in India to strengthen AI apply among students and build AI-ready talent.
This shift is part of an finisheavour to embed artificial innotifyigence (AI) in learning and research. Several workplace skills are expected to modify due to automation and AI, creating this collaboration a vital step for national capability in an increasingly digital global economy. Read more
AI is not yet ready for decisions where there is no right answer: DeepMind CEO
Artificial innotifyigence systems perform best in fields where answers can be definitively checked, DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis declared arguing that more subjective domains such as public policy will prove harder for machines to master.
Hassabis, who co-founded DeepMind in 2010 and now leads its operations within Google, drew a distinction between disciplines built on clear right-or-wrong answers and those shaped by interpretation and judgment. Read more
Qualcomm to invest $150M in Indian tech, AI startups
Qualcomm, the global semiconductor company, on Wednesday declared it has committed an additional $150 million to an AI venture fund to support Indian startups.
According to a statement, the investments will be deployed through Qualcomm Ventures in startups across all stages, with a particular focus on AI for automotive, IoT, robotics, and mobile. Read more
Funding news
Udtara Ventures announces Rs 250 Cr growth fund
Venture capital firm Udtara Ventures has announced a Rs 250 crore Udtara Growth Fund, which is specifically designed to build and scale strategic deep-tech and defence companies with global relevance.
The fund intfinishs to take meaningful ownership stakes in about 8 to 10 growth-stage firms that are developing commercially deployable systems. These companies are expected to have a confirmed order book and a proven product-market fit before receiving investment support. Read more
Stable Money raises $25M in pre-Series C funding
Stable Money, a Bengaluru-based digital platform for resolveed-income investments, raised $25 million in a pre-Series C funding round led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from existing investors Z47, RTP Global, and Fundamentum Partnership, the company declared Wednesday.
The raise brings the company’s total funding to $65 million since its founding in 2022 by Saurabh Jain and Harish Reddy. Read more
Semiconductor startup Vervesemi raises $10M
Vervesemi, a fab-less semiconductor startup, on Wednesday raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Ashish Kacholia and Unicorn India Ventures, with participation from Roots Ventures, Caperize Fina, and MAIQ Growth Scheme.
Vervesemi, founded in 2017, declared it will apply the fresh funding in three areas: commercialisation of its machine learning, enhanced analog signal chain IC portfolio, productisation of existing silicon chips and R&D. Read more
Earth Fund announces Rs 20 Cr investment in Truboard Partners
Earth Fund has invested Rs 20 crore in Truboard Partners, which provides an AI-based asset performance platform for lfinishers, equity investors, developers and asset owners in real estate and financial assets.
Truboard’s platform aggregates portfolio data to provide performance monitoring and analytics across multi-asset portfolios. The company was founded by professionals with backgrounds in real assets, technology and institutional finance, and operates across India’s real estate and energy markets, with recent expansion into the United States and European Union.
This is Earth Fund’s first investment. The fund has attracted backing from investors including HDFC Capital Advisors Limited, the alternative investment arm of HDFC Bank, and listed developer Nila Spaces. The fund’s sponsors, Brigade Enterprises Ltd. and Gruhas, have committed more than half of the capital raised to date.
IN-SPACe announces grant for startups, MSMEs
India’s space sector promoter IN-SPACe has announced a Rs 1 crore grant for startups and MSMEs to explore the application of artificial innotifyigence (AI) in diverse areas of space activity.
The funding support will be provided as a grant-in-aid under the IN-SPACe Seed Fund Scheme, a statement from IN-SPACe declared. Read more
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IIT-M Global Research Foundation to establish applied AI innovation centre in Dubai
IIT Madras Global Research Foundation will establish its first Applied Artificial Innotifyigence Innovation Centre at Dubai CommerCity to support applied AI development and technology-driven economic growth.
In its initial phase, the centre will host six applied AI startups with a combined valuation of about $118 million and projected revenues of $281 million over five years. The companies are described as having potential for international expansion. The initiative is facilitated by MCA Gulf, a strategic partner of IITM Global in Dubai.
IITM Global will lead the project and provide advisory and operational support. The centre will focus on product development, solution deployment, innotifyectual property creation and collaboration with government and indusattempt partners.
CoRover.ai announces large-scale deployment of its multilingual AI platform
CoRover.ai, developer of BharatGPT, announced the large-scale deployment of its multilingual AI platform built on NVIDIA Nemotron Speech open models and libraries. The company also introduced the BharatGPT DeskAI Appliance, a desktop system based on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell architecture, designed to operate offline.
CoRover stated that its updated BharatGPT language model supports voice, video and text interactions across customer support, public services, financial services, travel and utilities. The platform combines language models with NVIDIA-accelerated speech and agent technologies to deliver low-latency responses in multiple Indian languages.
The company also launched BharatGPT Mini, a private offline AI appliance built on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems and pre-installed with the NVIDIA DGX software stack. It includes a compact BharatGPT language model and can be customised for enterprise, defence, financial services and public sector apply.
BharatGen Technology Foundation, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham sign MoU
BharatGen Technology Foundation and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-develop sovereign, multilingual AI systems for India’s healthcare sector.
The partnership will focus on India-specific medical foundation models, domain AI frameworks for electronic medical records, and speech-first multimodal systems for clinical and community settings.
The initial priority is to scale Med-Sum, a medical summary tool developed by the Amrita School of AI at the Faridabad campus in Delhi NCR and powered by BharatGen’s sovereign speech and AI models.
Med-Sum provides real-time clinical voice-to-text transcription, automated clinical summaries, and patient explanations in several Indian languages.
Go Digit General Insurance partners with Anvayaa Kin Care
Go Digit General Insurance has partnered with Anvayaa Kin Care to provide senior care support as part of its wellness benefits for policyholders’ families.
Digit customers can purchase an eldercare package, which includes 24-hour medical emergency assistance, one annual consultation with a geriatric specialist, regular virtual check-ins by a health manager to coordinate care for elderly parents, and 30 monthly virtual sessions focapplyd on senior community engagement.
Policyholders are also eligible for preferential rates on services such as medical and non-medical companion visits, home doctor consultations, physiotherapy, nurse-on-call support, and medical equipment rentals.
ThunderPlus partners with Indoquick Energy
ThunderPlus has entered into a strategic partnership with Indoquick Energy to integrate battery swapping facilities within ThunderPlus EV charging hubs.
Indoquick will deploy battery swapping stations at ThunderPlus sites, launchning in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Delhi NCR. The companies plan to extfinish the integrated model to more than 250 locations nationwide.
Under the arrangement, Indoquick will apply existing space and power infrastructure at ThunderPlus hubs to install its swapping stations. The combined offering will serve two-wheelers, three-wheelers and commercial fleets that require high vehicle availability.
KOGO OS set out its role in sovereign AI infra
KOGO OS is a private, full-stack agentic operating system designed for deployment across edge environments, data centres and private cloud infrastructure. The company states that the platform is in production apply in regulated and security-sensitive environments, where organisations require control over AI systems and data.
KOGO OS cites deployments with organisations including Tech Mahindra, Michelin, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Coforge, Sun Life Financial and the Indian Army. The company plans expansion into the United States, Europe and South Asia.
KOGO OS supports more than 250 AI models and includes a Kubernetes native runtime and over 100 pre-built agents.
Prosus, BCG and MeitY Launch ‘AI for All’
Prosus, in partnership with Boston Consulting Group and the Minisattempt of Electronics and Information Technology, released a white paper titled AI for All: Catalysing Jobs, Growth, and Opportunity at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi.
The report calls for a shift in India’s AI strategy from a focus on automation to productivity, institutional capacity and wider participation in the digital economy. It was developed through multi-sector roundtables under the “Amrit Manthan” initiative.
It sets out an implementation framework for AI deployment across agriculture, education, healthcare, manufacturing and financial services. It draws on India’s digital public infrastructure, including Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, UPI, Account Aggregator and ONDC, as a foundation for scaled and accountable AI adoption.
The report states that AI adoption is likely to generate roles in supervision, data operations, diagnostics, compliance and digital advisory services.
(This article will be updated with the latest news throughout the day.)
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