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The Union Cabinet has approved a ₹10,372 crore AI Mission spanning GPU infrastructure, Indic foundation models, startup grants, and PhD fellowships — India's biggest AI bet yet.
Sarvam AI has raised ₹230 crore to expand its 22-language Indic LLM suite, targeting the 900 million Indians underserved by English-only AI products.
A six-month AIIMS Delhi pilot shows AI triage cut emergency wait times by 40% and correctly escalated 94% of high-acuity patients — with a national rollout under evaluation.
IIT Madras's HydraAttn mechanism cuts transformer training memory by 60% while matching full-attention accuracy — a potential breakthrough for long-context AI on constrained hardware.
edVerse's offline-capable Hindi voice AI tutors have reached 180,000 rural students across Rajasthan and Bihar, showing 1.8 grade-level gains in maths in an independent evaluation.
MeitY's draft AI ethics framework lays out principles of fairness, transparency, and accountability — but critics note it is voluntary and lacks any enforcement mechanism.
Paytm's new AI credit engine uses 200+ alternative data signals to assess 400 million thin-file borrowers excluded from formal credit — showing 23% lower defaults in a 6-month pilot.