When people think about building AI, their first thought is usually big tech or the billion-dollar AI startups like OpenAI or Anthropic. But in India, the approach is a little different. Here, the government is leading in providing funding and setting up the required infrastructure and platform for the entire population. Over the last three…
Perplexity has mainly positioned itself as an alternative to Google Search, offering various AI-powered tools to search the web. However, the platform has lately shifted its focus towards integrating AI-powered features related to finance. CEO Aravind Srinivas has frequently described Perplexity as a “commoditised version of Bloomberg Terminal” and stated that he’s building a “Bloomberg…
The intersection of AI, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has quietly unfolded in the Indian landscape. AI is starting to outperform conventional investment bankers in identifying, evaluating and attracting M&A opportunities. Traditional M&A practices rely heavily on public data, banker networks, and executive-level social introductions. Yet, most startups remain private and invisible in…
A growing number of companies have recently been openly reassessing their technological strategies. For example, Discord is handling trillions of messages with renewed infrastructure, while Netflix continues to rely on an upgraded version of Java, even in 2025. Meta also joins the list, and it turns out that Instagram’s recommendation system doesn’t rely on one…
In the world of finance, the use of AI is tricky owing to privacy issues, the dreaded risk of hallucinations and the guardrails. Given that modern systems are increasingly getting foolproof, there is a huge opportunity for changing the industry with agents—all with a little fine-tuning. Debarag Banerjee, chief AI and data officer at L&T…
UPI is the poster child of India’s tech innovation and a benchmark for things to come. Its simple design and the sheer capability to scale it to a billion users make it a masterpiece—one that the world has been trying to replicate in vain. Behind UPI’s seamless simplicity lies a story of hard-won technological independence,…