Daily intelligence and weekly long-form essays on AI developments, viewed through an Indian lens. Primary-source grounded; chronicler register; no hype-laundering.
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Long-form · 2026-06-03
In one seven-day window, the Indian side of the AI ledger put up more capital and compute formation than any week of the cycle so far. A Fundamentum cofounder launched a SEBI-approved ₹2,000 crore AI and deeptech fund with Nandan Nilekani as anchor. Bajaj Finserv committed ₹1,500–2,000 crore over five years and signed a research centre with IIT Bombay. Th…
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Long-form · 2026-05-20
The most-read piece on Indian AI this week was a Bloomberg analysis arguing that India's run as an emerging-market darling may be over — that the AI trade has rotated global capital toward markets with visible foundation-model and AI-hyperscaler exposure, and India does not have it [→](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-17/india-missed-out-on…
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Long-form · 2026-05-15
Six things happened in the same seven-day window, on three different layers of one stack. Pixxel and Sarvam put a name on an orbital data-centre satellite — Pathfinder, 200kg, datacentre-class GPUs on board, target launch window Q4 2026. The Union Cabinet approved two more India Semiconductor Mission units in Gujarat at ₹3,936 crore — Crystal Matrix's com…
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Long-form · 2026-05-13
Three things happened in the same seven-day window. OpenAI stood up a separately incorporated company with more than $4 billion in initial capital, called the OpenAI Deployment Company, and bought a 150-engineer consulting firm on day one. Anthropic, in the prior week's run-up but inside the same monthly window of attention, shipped a ten-agent product fo…
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