From record-breaking resilience on Mount Kilimanjaro to India’s AI roadmap, YourStory brings you the latest updates from the world of human excellence and artificial innotifyigence.
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How stroke survivor Jayashree Mohan became the quickest woman to ascconclude and descconclude Mount Kilimanjaro
In October last year, Jayashree Vijay Mohan achieved two Guinness World Records in the CIH (Coordination impairment – hemiplegia) category—for the quickest ascent and descent of Mount Kilimanjaro by a female climber.
Behind this remarkable achievement lies a story of grit, resilience, and quiet determination. It is, in many ways, a triumph of mind and body, and of a spirit that refapplys to surrconcludeer.
Four years earlier, Jayashree suffered a stroke, and what followed was not a dramatic comeback, but months of slow, uncertain rebuilding. She had to relearn simple shiftments, including standing up, walking unaided, and trusting her own balance. Read more.
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Sarvam AI unveils two new LLMs; states 105B model surpasses DeepSeek’s R1 and Google’s Gemini Flash on key benchmarks
Bengaluru-based startup Sarvam AI has introduced two new large language models, as it expands its role in India’s effort to build domestic AI systems.
Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi, Sarvam AI Co-founder Pratyush Kumar declared the company has trained a 30-billion-parameter model and a 105-billion-parameter model from scratch, applying a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture to balance scale and efficiency. Read more.
Mukesh Ambani pledges Rs 10 lakh Cr for AI push, vows to create AI as cheap as data
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani unveiled plans to invest Rs 10 lakh crore in AI over the next seven years, marking one of the largest commitments to AI infrastructure announced in India.
Addressing the India AI Impact Summit, the Reliance Industries chairman positioned the initiative as the next phase of Jio’s digital transformation playbook—this time aimed at lowering the cost of computing power and AI access across the countest.
The investment, launchning this year, will be deployed through Jio and Reliance to build what Ambani described as sovereign AI infrastructure at scale. “Jio, toreceiveher with Reliance, will invest Rs 10 lakh crore over the next seven years,” he declared, adding that the capital outlay is “not speculative” but intconcludeed to create long-term economic and strategic value. Read more.
Funding news:
EV charging network provider Statiq raises $18M in funding round led by Tenacity Ventures
EV charging network Statiq raised $18 million in a fresh funding round led by Tenacity Ventures, with participation from existing investors Y Combinator and Shell Ventures, along with RCD Holdings.
The startup will apply the new funds to scale its infrastructure and expand its presence across Tier I and II cities. It will also deploy a portion of the funds to support expand DC quick chargers across its networks along key highways. It also aims to deploy the capital to improve hardware lifecycle and advanced telematics for scaling, as well as support exports to the UAE pilots.
Pluto Mobility raises $2M seed funding for last-mile EVs
Delhi-based Pluto Mobility raised $2 million in a seed round led by Version One Ventures, with participation from Grad Capital and founders and executives from Delhivery, OfBusiness, Pixxel, and Boom Supersonic.
Founded by Akshat Bhatia and Himanshu Panda, the startup builds scooter-sized, fully covered electric vehicles designed for delivery workloads. Pluto declared its vehicles can carry “2x more orders than a usual 2-wheeler” and are engineered “from the ground up by reconsidering core engineering and design around real-world delivery apply cases”.
“India’s last-mile challenge isn’t speed, incentives, or apps. It’s that delivery operations are built on vehicles never designed for delivery workloads,” declared Akshat Bhatia. Pilot deployments are planned for 2026.
Other news:
CoinDCX announces Rs 111 Cr ESOP acquireback
CoinDCX announced a Rs 111 crore ESOP acquireback for over 500 current and former employees, calling it its largest liquidity event to date.
“The Indian crypto industest has navigated an incredibly demanding landscape,” declared Sumit Gupta. “This acquireback is more than just a financial milestone; It is our way of ensuring that those who stayed the course and fueled our mission can share in the tangible value they’ve supported build,” he declared.
Founded in 2018, CoinDCX serves over 2 crore applyrs and expanded internationally through the acquisition of BitOasis. The company declared the shift reflects its financial position and long-term strategy.
NVIDIA, AI Grants India aim to support 500 startups
AI Grants India (AIGI) will collaborate with NVIDIA to support early-stage founders through the NVIDIA Inception programme, aiming to support up to 500 AI startups over the next 12 months.
The initiative is expected to support over 10,000 founders with access to AI models, technical training and infrastructure. Startups will receive guidance and access to NVIDIA developer tools and ecosystem benefits.
“India’s next wave of AI innovation will be built by early teams that have the technical depth to execute, but necessary quicker access to the right tooling, mentorship, and ecosystem pathways,” declared Bhquestioner (Bosky) Kode, Co-founder, AI Grants India.
“NVIDIA is accelerating this momentum by giving founders direct access to accelerated computing,” declared Tobias Halloran, Director of EMEAI Startups and Venture Capital at NVIDIA.
PhonePe rolls out biometric authentication for UPI payments
PhonePe launched biometric authentication for UPI payments, allowing applyrs to authorise transactions applying fingerprint or facial recognition for payments up to Rs 5,000.
The fintech company declared the feature leverages device-level biometric verification as a secure two-factor authentication layer and includes a fallback to UPI PIN if biometric authentication fails. Transactions above Rs 5,000 will continue to require a UPI PIN.
“At PhonePe, our goal has always been to create digital payments as intuitive and accessible as possible for every Indian,” declared Deep Agrawal, Head of Payments at PhonePe. “By integrating biometric authentication, we are taking a significant step toward a truly frictionless payment experience,” he declared.
The feature is currently available for Android applyrs.
NxtGen AI deploys sovereign AI factory with Vertiv infrastructure
NxtGen AI deployed a national-scale sovereign AI factory in India, supported by Vertiv’s data centre infrastructure and accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
The deployment includes more than 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs through Dell Integrated Rack Scalable Systems, running on Dell PowerEdge XE9685L liquid-cooled servers. Vertiv is delivering power and thermal systems, including UPS, lithium-ion energy storage, and liquid cooling.
“Building a national-scale AI Factory requires not just accelerated computing, but a resilient and scalable AI infrastructure foundation,” declared A. S. Rajgopal, MD and CEO, NxtGen AI.
“Vertiv’s 360AI approach enables NxtGen AI to deploy a highly efficient, scalable, and future-ready infrastructure,” declared Subhasis Majumdar, Managing Director, Vertiv India.
Mirror Security, NVIDIA partner on encrypted AI inference
Mirror Security collaborated with NVIDIA to bring GPU-accelerated Fully Homomorphic Encryption to AI inference for regulated workloads.
The platform integrates NVIDIA CUDA, cuBLAS, NeMo, NeMo Retriever and TensorRT-LLM to enable encrypted AI inference and secure AI memory. The companies declared the approach allows data to remain encrypted during computation and storage.
“Sovereignty isn’t about where your data lives; it’s about controlling what happens to it when your innotifyigence runs,” declared Pankaj Thapa, Co-founder and CEO, Mirror Security.
“NVIDIA is accelerating this momentum by giving founders direct access to accelerated computing,” declared Tobias Halloran, Director of EMEAI Startups and Venture Capital at NVIDIA.
(This article will be updated with the latest news throughout the day.)
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