India — AI Law & Policy Updates
India has not enacted a standalone AI statute, governing AI indirectly through the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), which was passed in August 2023 with implementing Rules notifi…
India has not enacted a standalone AI statute, governing AI indirectly through the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), which was passed in August 2023 with implementing Rules notifi…
Sarvam AI raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, becoming India's newest unicorn as sovereign AI moves from slogan to necessity after US restrictions on Anthropic models highlighted foreign …
The U.S. government ordered restrictions on access to frontier Anthropic models, prompting Anthropic to disable global access to its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, cutting off Indian developers …
Avataar launched Varya, a distilled AI video model, at a New Delhi event on June 12, 2026, attended by IT Secretary S Krishnan. The company claims a 95% cost reduction to ₹0.48 per second by compressi…
India and Nepal deepened AI collaboration at a seminar in Kathmandu, where a memorandum of understanding was signed between Digital India Bhashini and Kathmandu University to advance language-AI work.…
Avataar AI launched Varya, an open-weight video generation model priced at $0.005 per second, 27 times cheaper than competitors. Built under India's $1.2 billion AI Mission, Varya is distilled from Al…
AirTrunk, a Blackstone-backed hyperscale data center operator, announced it will invest over $30 billion in India by 2030 to build more than 5 gigawatts of AI-ready data center capacity across multipl…