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Huang hangs on at Nvidia, and India is counting the cost of one vendor
Nvidia's board is weighing whether Jensen Huang stays as chief executive after reports of two extramarital relationships, one with a woman US intelligence concluded was a Chinese asset. Congress wants hearings, China has called the claim a smear, and Nvidia's India staff have watched about $600 million of paper gains disappear in six weeks.
No internet, no problem: Indian AI models that run offline in 11 languages
Two IndiaAI Mission-backed startups launched indigenous foundation models in New Delhi on Wednesday. ZenteiQ's Dhir 2B and Dhir 5B, and Soket Labs' EKA-1, work without an internet connection and are built for defence, government and education use. The models are meant for air-gapped settings where data cannot leave the machine.
The money is in the bank. The chips are three months away
Indian AI companies say capital is no longer the constraint on compute — supply is. Founders and investors describe waits of three to four months for GPUs, with the government's IndiaAI Mission pool of more than 38,000 GPUs helping but not solving the queue for dedicated capacity.
An Indian speech AI that takes on Google in 10 languages - and says it wins
IndiaAI Mission-backed startup Chariot has launched Chariot-1-ASR Realtime, a speech recognition model it says outperforms global and Indian rivals in 10 Indian languages, handling regional accents, background noise and code-mixed speech. The company is building an 8-billion-parameter model for real-time text-to-speech.