🇮🇳 JUST IN: BharatGen is targeting a 1 trillion-parameter AI model by March 2027, backed by the IndiaAI Mission, 2,400 GPUs, and one of India's largest academic AI collaborations. But perhaps its most ambitious goal isn't scale. It's affordability. BharatGen says its models already cost around ₹5 per million tokens, compared to roughly ₹13 for DeepSeek V4 Flash. If India wants AI to reach every developer, startup, business, and citizen, the race isn't just about building the biggest model. It's about building one everyone can afford. Read more: analyticsindiamag.com/ai-fea… @GoI_MeitY @iitbombay @YannLeCun #BharatGen #IndiaAI #SovereignAI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence

Financial services is where India’s AI ambitions meet their hardest constraints: regulation, data residency, auditability, and zero tolerance for downtime. What actually reaches production depends on how well teams solve for all four. AIM, in partnership with Neysa, is hosting the next edition of the AIM Innovator Series to bring together the people building AI inside India’s banks, payment networks, and wealth tech. The session will examine what is actually moving to production across fraud detection, document AI and KYC, credit and risk scoring, and AI-led wealth management. The conversation will cover why sovereignty is now a board-level question in BFSI, how teams keep models governed and auditable, and what separates a pilot that ships from one that stalls in compliance review. Session Details: Date: 29 October 2026 Time: 5.00 pm IST Format: Zoom Featured Speakers: Sujit Janardanan, Chief Marketing Officer, Neysa, with over two decades of experience across Google Cloud India, AWS, and Cropin Technology Ritesh Dhoot, EVP Engineering, Neysa, with over two decades of experience scaling engineering teams at Cisco, BYJU’S, and Orange Health Labs Register now and join the conversation on how AI is rewriting India’s financial services stack: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi… #AIInnovatorSeries #BFSI #FinancialServices #EnterpriseAI #Neysa

Financial services is where India’s AI ambitions meet their hardest constraints: regulation, data residency, auditability, and zero tolerance for downtime. What actually reaches production depends on how well teams solve for all four. AIM, in partnership with @Neysa_ai is hosting the next edition of the AIM Innovator Series to bring together the people building AI inside India’s banks, payment networks, and wealth tech. The session will examine what is actually moving to production across fraud detection, document AI and KYC, credit and risk scoring, and AI-led wealth management. The conversation will cover why sovereignty is now a board-level question in BFSI, how teams keep models governed and auditable, and what separates a pilot that ships from one that stalls in compliance review. Session Details: Date: 29 October 2026 Time: 5.00 pm IST Format: Zoom Featured Speakers: Sujit Janardanan, Chief Marketing Officer, Neysa, with over two decades of experience across Google Cloud India, AWS, and Cropin Technology Ritesh Dhoot, EVP Engineering, Neysa, with over two decades of experience scaling engineering teams at Cisco, BYJU’S, and Orange Health Labs Register now and join the conversation on how AI is rewriting India’s financial services stack: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi… #AIInnovatorSeries #BFSI #FinancialServices #EnterpriseAI #Neysa

AIM Research has launched the Top Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Providers in India PeMa Quadrant 2026, assessing 13 providers on Market Penetration and Technology Maturity as the regulatory landscape reshapes how Indian enterprises evaluate cloud. For a decade, cloud decisions rested on price, features and proximity. The DPDP Act, RBI localisation rules, SEBI and IRDAI cloud frameworks, MeitY empanelment and the IndiaAI Mission have changed what the decision rests on, and sovereign cloud is the commercial answer. The study treats sovereignty as broader than keeping workloads inside national borders, reading it across where data, backups, logs and telemetry actually reside, who operates the environment and holds privileged access, which legal system governs the contracting entity, where the control plane runs and who holds the encryption keys. The control plane carries the most weight, because software that configures, monitors and can suspend an environment can be operated from outside the country even when every server sits inside it. Demand is arriving along two lines, with government bodies and regulated enterprises evaluating cloud as part of their risk and control architecture, while AI-led buyers start from GPU availability, price per GPU-hour and deployment speed. The evidence both are looking for is already running across national and citizen-scale platforms, regulated production workloads in banking and insurance, air-gapped environments and in-country disaster recovery across separate seismic zones. Explore the full report: aimresearch.co/reports/top-s… #AIMResearch #SovereignCloud #IndiaCloud #CloudInfrastructure #PeMaQuadrant

Financial services is where India’s AI ambitions meet their hardest constraints: regulation, data residency, auditability, and zero tolerance for downtime. What actually reaches production depends on how well teams solve for all four. AIM, in partnership with Neysa, is hosting the next edition of the AIM Innovator Series to bring together the people building AI inside India’s banks, payment networks, and wealth tech. The session will examine what is actually moving to production across fraud detection, document AI and KYC, credit and risk scoring, and AI-led wealth management. Session Details: Date: 29 October 2026 Time: 5.00 pm IST Format: Zoom Featured Speakers: Sujit Janardanan, Chief Marketing Officer, Neysa, with over two decades of experience across Google Cloud India, AWS, and Cropin Technology Ritesh Dhoot, EVP Engineering, Neysa, with over two decades of experience scaling engineering teams at Cisco, BYJU’S, and Orange Health Labs Register now and join the conversation on how AI is rewriting India’s financial services stack: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi… #AIInnovatorSeries #BFSI #FinancialServices #EnterpriseAI #Neysa

Enterprise AI needs GPUs, storage, and network to work together, and India is building all three at scale. Getting this right is what turns AI experiments into real business results. In the latest episode of Simulated Reality, we sat down with Venkat Sitaram, Senior Director & Country Head, Infrastructure Solutions Group at @Dell Technologies India, to unpack how India became a global hub for AI infrastructure and why hybrid infrastructure is powering real business outcomes in 2026. If you are building, buying, or scaling AI infrastructure for the enterprise, this conversation is your playbook, from pilot to production and from cost to business value. Watch the full conversation on AIM Network here: youtube.com/watch?v=tZnHnbuK… #Dell #EnterpriseAI #AIInfrastructure #HybridInfrastructure #SimulatedReality #AIMNetwork #Business #AIAtScale

AIM Research has launched the 'Top Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Providers in India PeMa Quadrant 2026', assessing 13 providers on Market Penetration and Technology Maturity as the regulatory landscape reshapes how Indian enterprises evaluate cloud. For a decade, cloud decisions rested on price, features and proximity. The DPDP Act, RBI localisation rules, SEBI and IRDAI cloud frameworks, MeitY empanelment and the IndiaAI Mission have changed what the decision rests on, and sovereign cloud is the commercial answer. The study treats sovereignty as broader than keeping workloads inside national borders, reading it across where data, backups, logs and telemetry actually reside, who operates the environment and holds privileged access, which legal system governs the contracting entity, where the control plane runs and who holds the encryption keys. The control plane carries the most weight, because software that configures, monitors and can suspend an environment can be operated from outside the country even when every server sits inside it. Demand is arriving along two lines, with government bodies and regulated enterprises evaluating cloud as part of their risk and control architecture, while AI-led buyers start from GPU availability, price per GPU-hour and deployment speed. The evidence both are looking for is already running across national and citizen-scale platforms, regulated production workloads in banking and insurance, air-gapped environments and in-country disaster recovery across separate seismic zones. Explore the full report: lnkd.in/gs6t9rcU Featured vendors (alphabetical): AceCloud, airtel Cloud, Bharath Cloud, Cyfuture, E2E Cloud, ESDS Software Solution Limited, Ishan Technologies, Island Computing Services, JioCloud, Sify Technologies Limited., Tata Communications, Vultr, Yotta Data Services Private Limited #AIMResearch #SovereignCloud #IndiaCloud #CloudInfrastructure #PeMaQuadrant

AceCloud, airtel Cloud, JioCloud, Sify Technologies, Tata Communications and Yotta Data Services are among the 13 providers assessed as India’s sovereign cloud infrastructure market takes on greater importance amid rising data localisation, regulatory and AI infrastructure demands. The AIM Research PeMa Quadrant 2026 evaluates these providers on Market Penetration and Technology Maturity, looking beyond data residency to factors including control-plane location, privileged access, encryption keys, regulatory compliance, supply-chain dependencies and independent assurance. Featured Vendors: AceCloud • airtel Cloud • Bharath Cloud • Cyfuture • E2E Cloud • ESDS Software Solution Limited • Ishan Technologies • Island Computing Services • JioCloud • Sify Technologies Limited • Tata Communications • Vultr • Yotta Data Services Private Limited Explore the full AIM Research report: aimresearch.co/reports/top-s… #SovereignCloud #CloudInfrastructure #AIInfrastructure #DataSovereignty #AIMResearch

The University of Cincinnati (@uofcincy) is offering a 100% online MS in Business Analytics, as employment of data scientists in the US is expected to grow by 33.5% between 2024 and 2034. The US Bureau of Labour Statistics says this makes it the fastest-growing mathematical science occupation and the fourth-fastest-growing occupation overall. The programme is offered through the AACSB-accredited Lindner College of Business and can be completed in one to two years. It is asynchronous, does not require a GMAT, and ranked No. 3 in the US in Fortune's latest ranking of online business analytics master's programmes. Read the full story here: analyticsindiamag.com/ai-hig… #UniversityofCincinnati #DataScience #BusinessAnalytics #OnlineMasters #STEM

Russian bank Sber (@sberbank) has launched GigaChat 3.5 Reasoning, a flagship model that can break complex problems into steps, use tools, and check its own work. Sber says it is the only Russian open-source model with a reasoning mode, free under the MIT licence. According to the company, its IFBench score rose from 44 to 77, while Live Code Bench v6 went from 56 to 85. It uses an average of 37% fewer reasoning tokens than DeepSeek V4 Flash Preview in maths. Anton Frolov, Senior Vice President and Head of GenAI Development at Sberbank, said, "This is a vital step toward AI that can independently build a path to a result, act proactively, and interact with other services." Read the full story here: analyticsindiamag.com/ai-new… #GigaChat #Sber #AI #OpenSource #ReasoningModels

AIM Research and @FDE_Academy's latest report on India’s Forward Deployed Engineer talent market highlights a sharp hiring mismatch. Employer demand for field-deployed AI builders stands at 95%, while available talent is just 45%, creating a 50-percentage-point gap, the widest role-level shortage identified in the study. The report says employers are struggling to find professionals who combine deep technical expertise with strong customer and stakeholder capabilities. It also notes continued retention pressure from remote opportunities, start-up premiums and entrepreneurial alternatives as organisations compete for production-ready AI deployment talent across India right now. Read the full story here: analyticsindiamag.com/ai-hig… #ArtificialIntelligence #AITalent #AIJobs #IndiaAI #TechJobs

Apple Pay Launches in India After Decade-Long Wait The service rolled out on September 30, 2026, starting with eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cards added via the Wallet app. Payments authenticate securely with Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode, keeping card details safe on the device, and work at major spots like Zomato, Blinkit, and the Apple Store. Apple plans to add more banks and features soon, bringing a seamless option to a market powered by UPI. Jennifer Bailey, Apple's VP, praised India's digitally savvy users embracing cashless payments with top security.

Target is expanding its Bengaluru GCC with a new 830,000 sq ft campus at Embassy Manyata Business Park, bringing more than 5,700 Target team members across the city into one connected campus. “Our office expansion is a reflection of Target’s strategic priority to strengthen our team and the communities in which we operate,” said Andrea Zimmerman, Senior Vice President and President, Target in India. She said the expanded campus will create more opportunities for teams to connect, collaborate and build solutions for Target’s business and customers. The 10-floor facility features 22 collaboration spaces and 25 meeting rooms on every floor, along with a 1,200-seat cafeteria, gym, recreation and play zone, dance and yoga studio, and seven wellness rooms. Target has operated in India for more than 21 years, with its Bengaluru teams working across technology, merchandising, supply chain, fulfilment, stores, cybersecurity, digital and marketing. Read the full story by Sanjana Gupta here: lnkd.in/enFujkyE

Enterprises are deploying AI agents at scale, but many are discovering that having data and reasoning capabilities is not the same as understanding the organisation that those agents are supposed to serve. Mastech points out that the next phase of enterprise AI is about building the knowledge foundation that allows these agents to understand how a business actually works, what exceptions to apply, and the institutional logic behind the decision-making. "In conversations with enterprise leaders across industries, a consistent pattern shows up: AI investment is scaling faster than the value it returns. What gets requested is usually an agent deployment. What is needed is a “Knowledge Enterprise," says Debasis Satpathy, Chief Growth Officer at Mastech. Shipra Sharma, Chief AI and Solutions Officer at Mastech, added that "even the most commoditised model cannot operate in a vacuum. It has to work on top of an enterprise's own foundation to deliver real value," while Nirav Patel, President and CEO, described that foundation as a "knowledge fabric" containing the tacit knowledge, judgement and reasons behind decisions that "in the agentic era, protecting what makes an enterprise indispensable has never mattered more." Read the article to learn more: analyticsindiamag.com/ai-hig… #Mastech #EnterpriseAI #KnowledgeEnterprise #AgenticAI #AITransformation #ThriveOn #WhatsNext

Rippling launches AI Lab in Bengaluru as its India workforce nears 2,500 employees, expanding its engineering footprint and investment in AI. The new AI Lab is based at Rippling’s Embassy Tech Village campus and will work on AI infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, sandboxing, scaling and latency optimisation. The company is also expanding its Bengaluru workspace to 170,000 sq ft. Rippling said the AI Lab is hiring across AI research, applied AI, backend engineering, platform engineering and machine learning, with roles including senior engineer, principal engineer and engineering leadership. #Rippling #AI #Bengaluru #TechJobs #ArtificialIntelligence

The AI conversation has moved well beyond prompt engineering, and Nirav Patel, President and CEO of Mastech, has a precise name for where it is heading: 'harness engineering'. If you're wondering, guardrails and controls determine whether you can trust AI systems operating autonomously in sensitive enterprise environments. In the latest episode of Simulated Reality, our host Sudhi Sachdev sat down with Nirav to trace the full evolution from prompt engineering to context engineering to harness engineering, and what that progression demands from enterprises moving AI out of the lab and into regulated, high-stakes environments like banking and health sciences. Watch the full conversation on AIM Network here: youtube.com/watch?v=KTaXcPzY… #ThriveOn #WhatsNext #EnterpriseAI #AITransformation #SimulatedReality #AIMNetwork #Mastech #HarnessEngineering #AgenticAI #KnowledgeEnterprise #DigitalTransformation #AIGovernance #FutureOfWork

The services industry is experiencing a fundamental reset, and the practices that defined it for decades are being questioned almost every single day. Nirav Patel, President and CEO of Mastech, has a clear view of what comes next, and it starts with a simple but powerful idea: the best way to demonstrate AI understanding to clients is to run AI inside your own company first. In our upcoming episode of Simulated Reality, our host Sudhi Sachdev will sit down with Nirav to explore how AI is completely disrupting talent models. Moreover, the conversation goes deeper into why humans remain absolutely central to this transition, and what the shift from human-in-the-loop to human-on-the-loop and eventually human-out-of-the-loop actually demands from enterprise leaders building for the future. Stay tuned and subscribe to AIM Network on YouTube to be the first to know once the podcast goes live: youtube.com/channel/UCAlwrsg… #EnterpriseAI #AITransformation #AgenticAI #SimulatedReality #AIMNetwork #ITServices #AIStack #DigitalTransformation #Mastech #FutureOfWork

Starbucks is setting up its first corporate technology hub outside the United States in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, signing an MoU with the Tamil Nadu government to create 800 high-value technology roles with a median salary of Rs 35 lakh per annum. The move is part of Starbucks' broader push to bring technology roles in-house and reduce reliance on third-party contractors as the company works toward cutting $2 billion in costs. Tamil Nadu sweetened the deal with payroll subsidies, part of a wider strategy the state has deployed to attract global giants including Walgreens and Sigma Technology Group. The hub is expected to be operational by 2027. #Starbucks #TamilNadu #GCC #Chennai #TechHub Source: MoneyControl

AIM Research and @FDE_Academy have found that 95% of Indian employers are looking for forward-deployed engineers (FDEs), the professionals who take AI systems from demo to deployment, but only 45% of the talent pool has these skills. That leaves a 50-percentage-point shortfall, the widest among all FDE role families studied. According to the report, field-deployed AI builders command the highest median compensation among all experience levels, with pay rising from ₹32 lakh to ₹155 lakh. Bengaluru holds 34% of India's FDE talent, more than Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, and Pune combined. Read the full report here: aimresearch.co/reports/the-f… #AI #India #TechJobs #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #FDE #ForwardDeployedEngineer

Amid the AI wave, enterprise leaders are being asked to do more with AI. To profusely calibrate AI, vision comes second only to execution. Interestingly, AI has now made that gap visible by disrupting the very IT outsourcing models and talent structures that enterprises have relied on for decades. One has to wonder: what does a full-scale AI enterprise actually look like when you build it right from the start? In the upcoming episode of Simulated Reality, our host Sudhi Sachdev will sit down with Nirav Patel, President and CEO of Mastech, to break down the AI enterprise stack into its five core layers - humans, agents, knowledge, data, and platforms - and what it takes to move from ambition to execution in an era where the old playbooks no longer apply. The part worth watching for is the specific layer most enterprises get wrong, and why fixing it changes everything else. Stay tuned and subscribe to AIM Network on YouTube to be the first to know once the podcast goes live: youtube.com/channel/UCAlwrsg… #EnterpriseAI #AITransformation #AgenticAI #FrontPage #AIMNetwork #ITServices #AIStack #DigitalTransformation #FirstMileExecution #FutureOfWork #Mastech