STARTUP/TECHNOLOGY
Humyn Labs Benchmark Study Finds Major Gaps In AI Voice Models
Humyn Labs, a physical AI research lab focused on accelerating the deployment-readiness of robots in the real world, has launched the second edition of BRIDGE, an independent benchmark report examining the gap between human speech and AI voice models. The benchmark evaluated 23 voice AI models across 23 languages using real-world noisy conversations, including models […]
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Sep 17, 2026
STARTUP/TECHNOLOGY
Bodhan AI, AI4Bharat Unveil Indian Language AI Models With NVIDIA
Bodhan AI, a Centre of Excellence in AI for education incubated at IIT Madras, has announced a suite of open, state-of-the-art foundational AI models for Indian languages, developed in collaboration with NVIDIA. The initiative, undertaken with AI4Bharat, aims to expand access to multilingual and multimodal AI capabilities by giving developers, researchers and enterprises models that […]
CW Bureau
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Sep 11, 2026
STARTUP/TECHNOLOGY
IITM-Backed Bodhan AI Unveils Four AI Models For Education Ecosystem
Bodhan AI, a centre of excellence in AI for education incubated at IIT Madras, has launched four foundational AI models for Indian languages, aimed at creating shared AI infrastructure for India’s multilingual education ecosystem. Developed in partnership with AI4Bharat, the models are being released as digital public goods through open-weight models and hosted APIs on […]
CW Bureau
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Sep 4, 2026
STARTUP/TECHNOLOGY
HCLTech, Transport For NSW Partner For AI-Led Traffic Insights For India
HCLTech, a leading global technology company, and Transport for NSW (TfNSW)’s Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore advancing AI-powered analytics capabilities for SCATS. The collaboration aims to make traffic, congestion and geospatial data more accessible to traffic operators, planners and engineers through artificial intelligence and […]
CW Bureau
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Sep 3, 2026
STARTUP/TECHNOLOGY
Blue Machines AI’s Floe To Decode India’s Multilingual Conversations
Blue Machines AI, an enterprise-grade conversational AI platform, has launched Floe, a proprietary context-aware language detection model designed to help AI agents determine not only the languages customers use, but also whether they intend to switch the language of a conversation. Built for India’s multilingual communication patterns, Floe currently supports English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, […]
CW Bureau
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Aug 20, 2026
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ICAR Launches WhatsApp-Based AI Advisory Service For Oilseed Farmers
As India enters the kharif sowing season with a renewed focus on increasing domestic oilseed production and reducing dependence on edible oil imports, the ICAR-Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research (ICAR-IIOR), Hyderabad, has launched ‘Oilseeds Kisaan Mitra’, a WhatsApp-based AI advisory platform designed to provide instant, research-backed guidance to farmers across the country. The service was […]
CW Bureau
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Jun 11, 2026
STARTUP/TECHNOLOGY
TIH IIT Patna And SCOGO Deploy AI Platform To Power Telecom Workers
Vishlesan I-Hub Foundation (TIH IIT Patna), operating under the Indian Institute of Technology Patna, has reported significant progress in deploying multilingual artificial intelligence (AI) solutions aimed at strengthening workforce enablement in India’s telecom sector. AI platform for workforce support As part of its AI-driven initiatives, TIH IIT Patna incubated and collaborated with SCOGO Networks to […]
CW Bureau
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Jun 11, 2026
