OpenAI is expanding its footprint in India and moving into the country’s higher-education system through partnerships with leading academic institutions. The move comes as the South Asian nation seeks to scale AI skills and build domestic capacity in one of the world’s largest talent markets.
On Wednesday, OpenAI said it was partnering with six public and private higher-education…
Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open source AI
February 19, 2026
Indian AI lab Sarvam on Tuesday unveiled a new generation of large language models, as it bets that smaller, efficient open source AI models will be able to grab some market share away from more expensive systems offered by its much larger U.S. and Chinese rivals.
The…
As AI jitters rattle IT stocks, Infosys partners with Anthropic to build ‘enterprise-grade’ AI agents
February 18, 2026
Indian IT giant Infosys said on Tuesday it has partnered with Anthropic to develop enterprise-grade AI agents, as automation driven by large language models reshapes the global IT services industry.
Under the partnership, Infosys plans to integrate Anthropic’s Claude…
Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models
February 18, 2026
Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit. The models, dubbed Tiny Aya, are open-weight – meaning their underlying code is publicly available for anyone to use and modify – support over 70 languages, and can run on everyday devices like laptops without requiring an internet connection.
The model, launched…
All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit
February 18, 2026
With an eye toward luring more AI investment to the country, India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads…
Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’
February 17, 2026
There’s been a bunch of exciting research-focused AI labs popping up in recent months, and Flapping Airplanes is one of the most interesting. Propelled by its young and curious founders, Flapping Airplanes is focused on finding less data-hungry ways to train AI.
For a brief, incoherent moment, it seemed as though our robot overlords were about to take over.
After the creation of Moltbook, a Reddit clone where AI agents using OpenClaw could communicate with one another, some were fooled into thinking that computers had begun to organize against us – the self-important humans who dared treat them like lines of code without their own desires…
As India’s first AI company to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn’t have a stellar first day on the public markets, as enthusiasm for the technology collided with jittery investors recovering from a major sell-off in Indian software stocks.
Fractal listed at ₹876 per…
Airbnb has taken its time to launch AI features within the app, but CEO Brian Chesky on Friday said the company is now planning to bake in features powered by large language models that would help users search for listings, plan their trips, and aid hosts in managing their…
Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the US and Canada
February 16, 2026
Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent is now handling roughly a third of its customer support issues in North America, and it’s preparing to roll out the feature globally. If successful, the company believes that in a year’s time, more than 30% of its total customer support tickets will be handled by AI voice and chat in all the languages where it also employs a human customer service…
