Contributing Writer at Launch91 covering India's startup and technology ecosystem.
Suno launched Studio 2.0 with MIDI support, enhancing creative control, on the same day D'Addario admitted using Suno's AI music in a promotional video after weeks of denials.
Larsen & Toubro's Vyoma.AI secures a Rs 10,000-15,000 crore order for India's largest Nvidia B300 AI factory while planning a rare-earth magnet plant, revealing a strategic focus on core national infrastructure.
Shiprocket's public issue saw 3.16x oversubscription on Day 2, raising ₹1,617 crore after trimming its IPO size. Learn about anchor investor confidence, varied returns for early backers like 500 Global, and market reception despite disclosed losses.
New SraVaani-1.0 ASR model, built on FastConformer, supports 65 Indian languages and dialects, trained on 31,255 hours of speech from the VAANI corpus, addressing a critical gap in inclusive speech recognition.
Cars24 invests $5 million to launch Deployment Inc., an independent enterprise AI company. This move signals a new trend for established tech firms spinning off internal capabilities into standalone ventures.
Paytm faces contrasting forces: market optimism driven by potential UPI MDR, pushing shares to a 52-week high, alongside a new SEBI show cause notice regarding a 2023 disclosure. An analysis of balancing growth with regulatory oversight.
Deep-tech startup Discovered Materials raises $9 million (Rs 85 crore) in a seed round led by Lightspeed India, with Y Combinator and Peak XV Partners, to hunt for more efficient chip materials.
Ola Electric's subsidiary, Ola Cell Technologies (OCT), receives a five-year extension for its ACC PLI scheme, unlocking ₹7,240 crore in incentives. This decision from the MHI resolves recent auditor concerns over penalty provisions and offers crucial compliance flexibility for India's EV battery manufacturing sector.
Electric mobility platform Yulu raises $93 million in Series C funding, led by GEF Capital, to scale its EV fleet and enter the full-size electric scooter segment, marking a significant strategic expansion.
SurakshaEval is a new human-written safety benchmark for ten Indian languages and English, addressing cultural nuances and identifying recurring LLM safety failures.