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Anuraj Ennai at Manorama Techspectations: The Blueprint for India’s Deep-Tech Future

At the prestigious Manorama Techspectations conference in Kochi, Anuraj Ennai, CEO & Co-founder of InfinyAI Labs, delivered a masterclass on what it truly takes to build scalable technology innovation in India. Speaking on the panel “India’s Next Wave: Scalable Tech Innovation,” Anuraj outlined a compelling framework for how Indian deep-tech startups can move beyond copying Western playbooks to create solutions uniquely optimized for the country’s constraints and opportunities .

PARAM Robot Debuts at India AI Impact Summit: A Quadruped Leap for Indian Robotics

At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, while discussions swirled around foreign robotics solutions on display, one machine captured the imagination of attendees and proved that India’s deep-tech ecosystem has arrived: PARAM, a state-of-the-art quadruped robot developed entirely by a Bengaluru-based deep-tech team .

PARAM wasn’t just another exhibit. With live demonstrations of dynamic locomotion, onboard AI perception, and modular versatility, it stood as a powerful symbol of rising domestic capability in advanced robotics and hardware innovation—a counterpoint to debates over foreign tech dominance and a tangible validation of the Atmanirbhar Bharat vision in one of the most complex engineering domains .

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New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments: India’s Gift to Global AI Governance

On February 19, 2026, during the high-profile Leaders’ Plenary session at the India AI Impact Summit in Bharat Mandapam, a landmark voluntary framework was unveiled: the New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments. Designed to guide developers, companies, governments, and researchers toward building responsible, transparent, and inclusive frontier AI systems, this framework represents India’s unique contribution to the global conversation on AI governance .

PM Modi Unveils “MANAV Vision”: India’s Blueprint for Ethical, Inclusive AI That Serves All Humanity

In a historic keynote address delivered on February 19, 2026, at the Leaders’ Plenary session of the India AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled India’s comprehensive vision for artificial intelligence: the MANAV Vision. This framework—where MANAV (the Hindi word for “human”) serves as an acronym—outlines five core principles that will guide India’s approach to AI development, deployment, and governance .

Speaking to a packed hall of global leaders, tech CEOs, and innovators, PM Modi drew a powerful parallel: “Like nuclear power, AI has the potential to transform humanity—but the direction we take today will determine whether it becomes a force for empowerment or exclusion. The choice is ours, and the time to choose wisely is now” .

NVIDIA & AIGI Join Forces to Supercharge 500 New AI Ventures in India

In a landmark move announced in February 2026, NVIDIA has partnered with AI Grants India (AIGI) to identify, mentor, and fund the next generation of artificial intelligence founders. This collaboration leverages NVIDIA’s prestigious Inception program—which already counts over 4,000 Indian AI startups as members —to provide early-stage builders with something far more valuable than just hardware: a complete ecosystem for success.

Co-founded by Bhasker “Bosky” Kode and Vaibhav Domkundwar, AIGI has already supported over 1,500 early-stage builders and 100+ idea-stage AI startups in less than a year . Now, with NVIDIA’s technical firepower and global reach, the partnership aims to catalyze 10,000 early-stage builders and spark up to 500 new AI ventures focused on India-specific challenges

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Sarvam 105B vs. Global Giants: India’s Answer to Frontier AI Arrives

On February 18–19, 2026, at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, homegrown AI startup Sarvam AI unveiled two powerful new large language models (LLMs): the Sarvam-105B and Sarvam-30B . Trained entirely on Indian soil using compute infrastructure supported by the government’s IndiaAI Mission, these models represent a watershed moment for the country’s technological sovereignty .

But what makes this launch truly remarkable isn’t just the scale—it’s the efficiency. Sarvam’s flagship 105-billion-parameter model is outperforming frontier systems nearly six times its size on critical benchmarks for reasoning, coding, and Indian language understanding . Here’s why this matters for India’s 1.4 billion people and the global AI landscape.

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Beyond Fast Charging: Exponent Energy’s ‘Exponent One’ Tackles the Real EV Barrier—Financing

Exponent Energy, the Bengaluru-based startup renowned for its breakthrough 15-minute rapid charging technology, has made a strategic move that could prove as transformative as its hardware innovation. The company has launched Exponent One, a comprehensive financing platform designed to dismantle the single largest barrier to mass EV adoption in India: the prohibitive upfront cost of vehicles and charging infrastructure.

Claude’s India Surge: Why Anthropic Sees Bharat as Its Next Great AI Playground

In a powerful validation of India’s accelerating AI momentum, Anthropic has declared the country its second-largest global market, trailing only the United States. Speaking at the company’s Builder Summit in Bengaluru on February 16, 2026, President Daniela Amodei painted a picture of explosive growth, driven by a uniquely Indian combination of deep technical engagement, enterprise ambition, and a developer ecosystem hungry for cutting-edge tools.

The Deep-Tech Funding Wave: How Exponent, Calligo, and Qosmic Are Leading India’s Frontier Innovation Charge

A powerful signal is flashing across India’s innovation landscape: deep-tech is no longer a niche—it’s the new mainstream. With funding in the sector surging 53% to $690 million in H1 FY26, a new wave of startups building in EV infrastructure, semiconductors, quantum communications, and space-tech is actively lining up significant capital rounds. This isn’t the tentative, exploratory funding of a few years ago; it is growth-stage conviction from top-tier investors like 360 One, BIG Capital, Accel, and Avaana Capital, backing ventures with proven business models, defensible IP, and clear paths to scaling.

The Ultimate Edge: Agnikul and NeevCloud Forge India’s Orbital AI Future

What was once the domain of science fiction is now a concrete, fast-tracked engineering reality. Agnikul Cosmos, the Chennai-based rocket innovator, has deepened its path-breaking partnership with NeevCloud to launch India’s first orbital AI data centre, with a proof-of-concept mission targeted before the end of 2026. This is not an incremental step in India’s space journey; it is a paradigm leap. By transforming a traditionally discarded rocket upper stage into a sovereign, reusable AI compute node, these two Indian startups are challenging the fundamental architecture of global cloud computing—proving that the next frontier of the internet will be fought in orbit, and India intends to be a primary architect.