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On December 10, India proposed to introduce a mandatory copyright royalties system requiring AI to pay for copyright-protected content used in its model training, which might re-establish the way companies like OpenAI and Google operate in one of the most important and growing markets around the world. On Tuesday, local time, the Ministry of Industry and Internal Trade Promotion of India (DPIIT) issued a proposed framework that AI would be allowed to use all copyright-protected works for model training, subject to the payment of royalties to a new collective management body consisting of rights-holders ' organizations, which would then be allocated to..

On November 15th, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman published an internal memorandum in September 2025, disclosing his plan to build up to 250 GW by 2033. According to Truthdig, this is equivalent to electricity needed to power India as a whole and its 1.5 billion citizens, and its CO2 emissions will also be twice as high as ExxonMobil, which, according to the report, is currently the “largest non-State carbon emitter” on the planet. Except the data centre itself..

On October 29th, OpenAI announced that it would launch a one-year ChatGPT Go free-of-charge scheme in India starting November 4. The initiative coincides with the DevDay Exchange Developer event in Bangalore, which aims to expand the reach of the AI tool in the Indian market. OpenAI states that the existing ChatGPT Go subscriber will also be granted an additional 12 months of free eligibility, with the specific exchange mode to be announced later. I don't know

Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- OpenAI is looking for a local partner to build a GW "Stargate" mega AI data center in India, a project that could be formally announced during CEO Sam Altman's visit to the region this month, Bloomberg reported today. The India-based mega AI center is expected to be the first of its kind in India. OpenAI's "OpenAI for Countries"...

Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- On Tuesday, local time, ChatGPT developer OpenAI officially launched ChatGPT Go, a new subscription plan for the Indian market only, priced at Rs. 399 per month (note: the current exchange rate is about Rs. 32.8), making it the company's most affordable subscription option to date. The move is designed to further expand its presence in India, which is OpenAI's second-largest subscriber market after the United States. Many companies around the world often offer more affordable subscription plans when entering the Indian market,...

August 13, 2012 - OpenAI has updated its pricing page to include a new subscription package called "ChatGPT Go". The package is priced at INR 399 (note: current exchange rate is around Rs 32.7). However, the subscription is not available to users worldwide, but is limited to certain regions, most likely developing countries like India. For the moment, the ChatGPT web application makes it clear that the Go option is only available in certain regions for a monthly fee of INR 399. Compared to the free version, the Go option offers more conversations...

July 19 news, according to foreign media TechCrunch 17 report, focus on search AI startup Perplexity and India's second largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel reached an exclusive cooperation agreement, for Airtel's 360 million users to provide free 12-month Perplexity Pro subscription service, the original price of this service is $200! The service was originally priced at $200 (note: current exchange rate is approximately RMB 1,437). Airtel confirms that the partnership is exclusive and that the Indian...

A few days ago, Mary Meeker, who is known as the "Queen of the Internet", released the "Internet Trends Report", which mentioned a lot of AI development status, future trends and other content. Among them, according to the data given by Mary, the largest monthly active users of OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT come from India, accounting for 13.5%, even more than the 8.9% in the U.S. At the same time, India has also become the largest market for DeepSeek...

According to a Reuters report on March 13, India's Apollo Hospitals plans to increase its investment in AI technology to reduce the workload of doctors and nurses by automating routine tasks such as medical documentation. Indian hospitals are generally faced with the pressure of medical staff overload, doctors and nurses need to deal with a large number of patients. As a result, more and more hospitals are leveraging AI to improve diagnostic accuracy, predict the risk of complications, enhance the precision of robotic surgeries, provide telemedicine services, and optimize operations management. Apollo currently operates more than 10,000 beds nationwide and is...

Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- At today's press conference on the Artificial Intelligence Mission, India's Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnov, confirmed that India's big language model will be ready in 10 months, CNBC TV 18 reported. Vaishnov said, "We have built the framework and officially launched it today. Our core objective is to develop AI models that reflect India's native context and culture." According to reports, India not only reached its target of 10,000 GPUs, but even "exceeded expectations" by securing 18,600 GPUs...

Jan. 15, 2012 - In response to the security challenges posed by the world's largest religious gathering, the Indian government is deploying artificial intelligence technology for the first time on a large scale at this year's Maha Kumbh Mela, providing security for nearly 450 million pilgrims through advanced equipment such as face-recognition cameras, underwater drones and robotic buoys. The six-week religious event kicked off on January 13 in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj. A major religious event held every ten years, the Jumbo Kettle Festival is attended by more people than the populations of the United States and Canada combined. To ensure that...

German music rights agency GEMA and India's ANI news agency filed lawsuits in their respective local courts on the 13th and 18th of this month, accusing OpenAI of using their content to train artificial intelligence models without permission. GEMA says it is the world's first class action organization to file a lawsuit against a provider of generative AI systems. The organization represents the copyrights of more than two million music rights holders worldwide, and is one of the largest associations of writers of musical works in the world. GEMA alleges that OpenAI's chat...

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Sangeet Kumar, co-founder and chief executive officer of Indian robotics firm Addverb, said in an interview that the company intends to launch a humanoid robot product by 2025, Bloomberg reported early this morning. Addverb was founded in 2016 and currently has more than 350 customers in 15 offices around the world. Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group, India's largest private conglomerate, bought Addverb's 56% in 2022 ...

AI Fund, an artificial intelligence fund led by computer scientist Ernest Ng, announced on Tuesday that it has made an investment in Jivi, an AI healthcare company in India. Jivi is an AI healthcare company based in the northern Indian city of Gurgaon that utilizes AI technology to provide potential diagnostics and treatments, generate health reports, and perform administrative tasks.The AI Fund described Jivi in a statement but did not disclose the exact amount of its investment or the percentage of shares it has acquired. According to a Nasscom-BCG report released earlier this year, India's artificial...

Recently, Zomato, a major food delivery platform in India, made a major decision. They announced that they would ban the use of AI-generated food images on restaurant menus. Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal said that this move is to protect customer trust, because the use of these AI images has brought a series of problems, such as increased customer complaints, higher refund rates, and lower restaurant ratings. Goyal pointed out in a post that from now on, they will encourage restaurant partners to stop using AI-generated food images. Zomat…

Recently, India's AI startup boom is in full swing. In the past six months alone, 43 Indian AI startups have received a staggering $864 million in financing. Antler, an investment institution, has announced that it will invest $10 million in early-stage AI startups. Partner Rajiv Srivatsa emphasized on social media: "Now is the best time to build a startup!" At the I/O Connect Bengaluru 2024 event recently held by Google...

Meta’s chief financial officer Susan Li said on Wednesday that India has become Meta AI’s largest market by usage, an achievement that is noteworthy given that Meta AI launched in the country only a few months ago. Li said during Meta’s second-quarter earnings call that people have used Meta AI for billions of queries since its launch. “We’re seeing particularly promising signs on WhatsApp, in terms of retention and engagement, which coincides with India becoming our largest market for Meta AI usage,” she noted. Meta’s most…

The use of AI technology in music creation today is gaining traction. However, many startups face huge challenges in this field when it comes to copyright issues and fair compensation for artists. However, Indian startup Beatoven.ai seems to have found an ethical and responsible way to deal with these challenges. Mansoor Rahimat Khan, co-founder and CEO of Beatoven.ai, is a professional sitar player who comes from a family with a seven-generation musical tradition. He studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay…

Meta has decided to roll out its Llama-3 powered AI chatbot to all Indian users after testing it for a few months during India’s general elections. However, Meta AI currently only supports English and not other local languages. The company started testing Meta AI in India on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook in April by rolling it out to select users. A few days later, the company officially rolled out the bot to more than a dozen countries, but not to India…

NVIDIA is hiring experienced AI engineers in India to join its partner companies. Selected candidates will join the NVIDIA Partner Network as employees responsible for driving adoption of NVIDIA technology and delivering innovative designs in data center, edge, and cloud deployments. These positions are based in Bangalore and New Delhi and focus on Deep Learning Solution Architect positions. The position requires an engineering degree (BE/B.Tech/MS/MTech), preferably in Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Electrical/ Electronics or equivalent. …

K Krithivasan recently predicted in an interview with the Financial Times that the widespread use of generative AI will lead to the decline of customer service jobs within a year at the earliest. K Krithivasan is the head of Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The company is the second largest company in India by market value and has more than 616,000 employees worldwide. Krithivasan believes that generative AI can well replace customer service jobs and reduce corporate operating costs. Citing Krithivasan’s views…

OpenAI has officially launched its hiring program in India, aiming to shape Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulatory policy at an early stage. OpenAI has reportedly appointed a Head of Government Relations to lead the company's public policy affairs in India. The move is seen as a strategic move by OpenAI in the country's market, aiming to influence the future direction of AI development in India through talent acquisition. OpenAI's move reportedly shows the company's focus on the Indian AI market. With the rapid development of AI technology, the development of regulatory policies has become increasingly important.Op...

Technicians in India are driving salary growth with additional AI, GenAI, and related skills, with salaries increasing by 30-50% compared to those without these skills. According to Careernet, GenAI professionals can be divided into three categories: GenAI technology developers, GenAI product developers, and GenAI users. Source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed to Midjourney In 2019, a technician named Abhishek (pseudonym) graduated from a second-tier engineering college in Bangalore, India…

India has announced that it is shelving its previous AI vetting program after receiving a lot of criticism from local and international entrepreneurs and investors: any company will need to be approved before releasing an AI model. Image source Pixabay The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released an updated AI advisory this Friday that no longer requires them to get government approval before launching or deploying AI models to users in the South Asian market. Under the revised guidelines, companies are advised to label inadequately tested and unreliable AI models, informing users about possible flaws or unreliability of these models. India ...