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World Labs Raises $1B Series C for Spatial AI World Models

Posted on by Yashika Aneja

SAN FRANCISCO: World Labs raises $1 billion in Series C funding with Autodesk investing $200 million. The AI startup, founded by renowned computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, advances spatial intelligence technology. Investors include Autodesk, NVIDIA, AMD, Andreessen Horowitz, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, and Sea.

Autodesk invests $200 million and serves as an adviser to the startup. The design software maker explores collaboration to integrate World Labs’ models with its tools. The partnership focuses initially on entertainment use cases. Bloomberg reports the round values World Labs at approximately $5 billion.

World Labs develops world models that perceive, generate, understand, and interact with 3D environments. The technology moves AI beyond 2D pixels and flat images. Spatial intelligence enables reasoning about how the 3D world works with geometry, physics, and dynamics.

The company launches its first product, Marble, a generative multimodal world model. Users create spatially coherent, high-resolution 3D worlds from images, video, or text inputs. The platform enables creation from simple text prompts, single photographs, or multiple views.

If AI is to be truly useful, it must understand worlds, not just words. Worlds are governed by geometry, physics, and dynamics, and reconciling the semantic, spatial, and physical is the next great frontier of AI,

Fei-Fei Li, Co-founder of World Labs.

The startup raised $230 million at a $1 billion valuation in September 2024. World Labs emerged from stealth just four months after founding. Li co-founded ImageNet, which helped advance computer object recognition capabilities and enabled current AI innovations.

“We are focused on accelerating our mission to advance spatial intelligence by building world models that revolutionize storytelling, creativity, robotics, scientific discovery and beyond,” World Labs said in a blog post.

The funding accelerates applications in robotics, scientific discovery, AR/VR, and immersive experiences. Competitors include Google DeepMind’s Genie models and Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs.

OpenAI Launches India Initiative With Tata Data Center Partnership

Posted on by Shobhit Kalra

NEW DELHI: OpenAI launches “OpenAI for India” at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 today. The initiative partners with Tata Group to build AI infrastructure, expand enterprise adoption, and invest in workforce upskilling. India has more than 100 million weekly ChatGPT users.

OpenAI partners with Tata Group to develop AI-ready data center capacity. OpenAI becomes the first customer of Tata Consultancy Services’ HyperVault data center business. The partnership begins with 100 megawatts of capacity with potential to scale to 1 gigawatt. A 1 gigawatt data center typically costs $35 billion to $50 billion.

The infrastructure enables OpenAI’s most advanced models to run securely in India. The setup delivers lower latency while meeting data residency, security, and compliance requirements. The capacity supports mission-critical and government workloads.

This strategic collaboration between OpenAI and Tata Group marks a major milestone in India’s vision to become a global leader in AI. We are pleased to partner with OpenAI to create state-of-the-art AI infrastructure in India

N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons

Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise across its employees over the next several years. The rollout starts with hundreds of thousands of TCS employees. TCS uses OpenAI’s Codex to standardize AI-native software development across teams.

OpenAI announces education partnerships with six leading institutions including IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad, and AIIMS New Delhi. The initiative provides more than 100,000 ChatGPT Edu licenses. TCS becomes the first organization outside the United States to participate in OpenAI Certifications.

India is already leading the way in AI adoption, and with its homegrown tech talent, optimism about what AI can do for the country, and strong government support, it is well placed to help shape its future,

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.

OpenAI plans to open new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year. The expansion adds to its existing presence in New Delhi. India emerges as OpenAI’s second-largest user base after the United States.

Siemens and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Build Industrial AI Operating System

Posted on by Anurag Shukla

LAS VEGAS: Siemens and NVIDIA expand their strategic partnership at CES 2026. The companies unveil plans to build an Industrial AI Operating System. The platform embeds artificial intelligence across the entire industrial lifecycle.

The system spans design, engineering, manufacturing, operations, and supply chains. It transforms how physical systems are conceived, built, and operated. NVIDIA provides AI infrastructure, simulation libraries, models, frameworks, and blueprints. Siemens commits hundreds of industrial AI experts alongside its hardware and software portfolio.

The companies plan to build the world’s first fully AI-driven, adaptive manufacturing site. The facility launches in 2026 at the Siemens Electronics Factory in Erlangen, Germany. The site uses an AI Brain powered by software-defined automation and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries. Factories continuously analyze their digital twins and test improvements virtually. They turn validated insights into operational changes on the shop floor.

Together, we are building the Industrial AI operating system, redefining how the physical world is designed, built, and run to scale AI and create real-world impact,

Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens AG.

Siemens launches Digital Twin Composer software, available on Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace mid-2026. PepsiCo uses the technology to simulate facility upgrades in the U.S. The deployment achieves a 20 percent increase in throughput. It identifies up to 90 percent of potential issues before physical modifications.

The partnership includes full GPU acceleration of Siemens’s simulation portfolio. In semiconductor design, the collaboration targets two-to-ten-times speedups in verification and layout workflows.

Generative AI and accelerated computing have ignited a new industrial revolution, transforming digital twins from passive simulations into the active intelligence of the physical world,

Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA.

The companies jointly develop a repeatable blueprint for next-generation AI factories, balancing high-density computing demands with power, cooling, and automation requirements while optimizing the full lifecycle from planning to operations.

Anthropic Partners with Infosys to Build AI Agents for Regulated Industries

Posted on by Amita Parul

BENGALURU: Anthropic and Infosys announced Monday a collaboration to develop and deliver enterprise AI solutions across telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development.

The partnership integrates Anthropic’s Claude models and Claude Code with Infosys Topaz, an AI-first platform using generative and agentic AI technologies, to help companies adopt AI with the governance and transparency that regulated industries require.

India is the second-largest market for Claude.ai, where nearly half of usage involves building applications, modernizing systems, and shipping production software. Infosys is one of the first partners in Anthropic’s expanded presence in India following the opening of its Bengaluru office.

The collaboration focuses on agentic AI systems that independently handle multi-step tasks like processing claims, generating and testing code, or managing compliance reviews using tools like the Claude Agent SDK.

The partnership will develop industry-specific AI agents across five key sectors. In telecommunications, agents will modernize network operations and simplify customer lifecycle management. In financial services, agents will detect risk, automate compliance reporting, and deliver personalized customer interactions.

Manufacturing and engineering teams will use Claude to accelerate product design and simulation, while software developers will leverage Claude Code to write, test, and debug code faster. Enterprise operations will deploy Claude Cowork to automate routine work including document summarization and status reporting.

“There’s a big gap between an AI model that works in a demo and one that works in a regulated industry. Infosys has exactly that kind of expertise across telecom, financial services, and manufacturing,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic.

There’s a big gap between an AI model that works in a demo and one that works in a regulated industry. Infosys has exactly that kind of expertise across telecom, financial services, and manufacturing,

Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic

The collaboration will also help organizations modernize legacy systems, combining Infosys Topaz and Claude to reduce the cost of updating aging infrastructure and accelerate migration timelines.

Adani Group Commits $100B to AI Data Centers in India

Posted on by Shobhit Kalra

AHMEDABAD: Adani Group announced a $100 billion commitment to build renewable-energy-powered AI data centers across India by 2035, positioning the country as a major player in global AI infrastructure.

The investment aims to expand the conglomerate’s existing 2-gigawatt data center capacity to 5 gigawatts and establish what Adani describes as the world’s largest integrated data center platform. The company expects the initiative to catalyze an additional $150 billion in related investments, creating a $250 billion AI ecosystem in India over the next decade.

Central to the strategy is Adani’s renewable energy portfolio, anchored by the 30-gigawatt Khavda project in Gujarat, of which more than 10 gigawatts is already operational. The company plans an additional $55 billion investment to expand renewable generation and battery storage systems, ensuring carbon-neutral power supply for the data centers.

Adani will also co-invest in domestic manufacturing of critical components including transformers, power electronics, and thermal management systems to reduce exposure to global supply-chain disruptions.

The conglomerate is developing large-scale AI data center campuses in Visakhapatnam and Noida through a partnership with Google, which separately committed $15 billion over five years to build AI infrastructure in India.

Additional facilities are planned in Hyderabad and Pune in collaboration with Microsoft. An expanded partnership with Walmart-owned Flipkart will focus on a second purpose-built AI data center for e-commerce and high-performance computing workloads. Adani said it is in discussions with other global technology firms to establish further campuses.

India will not be a mere consumer in the AI age. We will be the creators, the builders, and the exporters of intelligence

Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Group.

Adani Enterprises shares closed 2.7 percent higher in Mumbai following the announcement, making it one of the top gainers on the benchmark Nifty 50 index. The company will reserve a portion of GPU capacity for Indian AI startups, research institutions, and deep-technology innovators to support data sovereignty initiatives.

ChipAgents Raises $50M Series A1 for AI-Driven Chip Design

Posted on by Shobhit Kalra

SANTA CLARA: ChipAgents closed an oversubscribed $50 million Series A1 round today, bringing total capital raised to $74 million as the Santa Clara-based startup scales its agentic AI platform for semiconductor design. Matter Venture Partners, a TSMC-backed HardTech venture firm, led the round with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek, and Ericsson. Wen Hsieh, Founding Managing Partner of Matter Venture Partners, joins the board.

The platform deploys coordinated AI agents that autonomously read specifications, generate register-transfer level code, create verification assets, and perform root-cause debugging across complex chip programs.

Our AI teams take ownership. They read specifications, implement solutions, validate results, and iterate relentlessly. This is a revolutionary AI execution platform for silicon design.

William Wang, CEO of ChipAgents

ChipAgents reports 15x faster specification comprehension, 240x reduction in formal assertion generation time, and 100 percent code and functional coverage through automated formal verification in live production environments at Tier-1 semiconductor companies.

Founded in 2024 by CEO William Wang, ChipAgents has achieved 140x year-over-year annual recurring revenue growth and expanded deployments to 80 leading semiconductor firms, securing several multi-year, multi-million-dollar licensing agreements. The company scaled from 10 to 46 employees and recently relocated from Santa Barbara to a new headquarters in Santa Clara, positioning itself at the center of the global semiconductor ecosystem.

Sarvam AI Launches Kaze, India’s First Indigenous AI Smart Glasses

Posted on by Shobhit Kalra

NEW DELHI: Sarvam AI today launched Kaze, India’s first indigenous AI-powered smart glasses, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam. The device marks the Bengaluru-based startup’s entry into hardware wearables and its first product that moves AI off the screen and into the physical world. Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the first person to try the glasses, wearing them during his walkthrough of the AI Impact Expo on Monday evening.

Kaze listens, understands, and responds in real time while simultaneously capturing and interpreting what the wearer sees. Unlike smartphone-based AI interfaces, the device operates as a hands-free ambient layer, enabling continuous spoken interaction with the surrounding environment. Developers can build custom applications on top of the Sarvam platform, opening industry-specific use cases across healthcare, education, and citizen services.

Sarvam Kaze moves intelligence from the screen to the real world. You wear it. It listens, understands, responds, and captures what you see. This is a whole new world to build for,

Pratyush Kumar, co-founder of Sarvam AI

The device is designed, built, and powered by AI developed entirely in India, positioning it squarely within the country’s push for technological self-reliance.

Sarvam AI plans a commercial launch in May. The company also confirmed it will release a Chat model later this week. Kaze joins a growing lineup that includes Sarvam Edge, an offline AI platform running speech recognition and translation on-device without cloud access.

Gnani.ai Launches Inya VoiceOS at India AI Impact Summit

Posted on by Anurag Shukla

NEW DELHI: Bengaluru-based Gnani.ai today unveiled Inya VoiceOS, a 5-billion-parameter voice-to-voice foundational model built entirely in India to enable natural spoken interaction across multiple Indian languages. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the system at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, where it was released as a research preview under the government-backed IndiaAI Mission.

Unlike conventional speech systems that transcribe audio to text and back again, Inya VoiceOS processes audio directly in acoustic and semantic space, preserving tone, emotion, and pacing in real time. The architecture handles interruptions and overlapping speech without restarting conversations, a significant departure from pipeline-based systems that lose conversational context at each processing step.

Voice-to-voice AI is not just about faster pipelines. It is about a fundamentally different architecture that preserves what makes human conversation effective

Ganesh Gopalan, co-founder and CEO of Gnani.ai

The company targets government helplines, emergency response systems, and enterprise applications in banking, healthcare, and logistics. Gnani.ai currently processes around 10 million calls per day and counts HDFC Bank, Bank of Baroda, and IDFC First Bank among its customers.

The research preview precedes a larger 14-billion-parameter model the company plans to deploy across all 22 scheduled Indian languages within 18 months. Gnani.ai was selected under the IndiaAI Mission after the IT Ministry reviewed over 500 proposals, tasking the startup with building sovereign voice AI infrastructure built, trained, and deployed entirely within India.

InVideo and Google Cloud Expand AI Filmmaking Partnership at India AI Summit

Posted on by Yashika Aneja

NEW DELHI: InVideo, a Mumbai-based AI video creation platform with 30 million users, announced an expanded enterprise partnership with Google Cloud on Monday at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, deepening an integration first launched in October 2025.

The new deal gives InVideo access to Google Cloud’s full AI technology stack including TPU and GPU infrastructure, Gemini, Imagen, Veo 3, and Lyria to build end-to-end cinematic production workflows for media studios, production houses, advertising agencies, and broadcast networks.

We’ve built a platform that serves 30 million creators. Now we’re focused on the future of filmmaking not as just a technology provider, but as a true partner to filmmakers

Sanket Shah, CEO of InVideo

The enterprise offering will power every stage of production: text-to-image generation, 4K cinematic video via Veo and Imagen, synchronized music and speech via Lyria, and real-time experimentation with lighting, blocking, and pacing all before a physical set is built. InVideo is also training its own custom AI models on Google Cloud’s architecture.

To address IP concerns, every AI-generated asset will carry SynthID watermarks Google’s imperceptible content authentication system alongside multi-layered safety filters and Copyright Indemnity protection against third-party intellectual property claims.

The announcement arrives as studios and production houses across India increasingly integrate AI into pre-visualization, post-production, and distribution workflows. InVideo will showcase the enterprise filmmaking stack at the India AI Film Festival on February 17 in New Delhi, where it also plans to announce three feature films developed in collaboration with major Indian production houses.

Filmmaking has always been an evolving art form, and today, AI is opening a new chapter where creators can bring concepts to life that were previously out of reach,

Sashi Sreedharan, Managing Director of Google Cloud India

The expanded deal positions InVideo as a direct enterprise competitor to traditional visual effects and production software vendors, targeting a film industry facing pressure to cut costs while scaling creative output.

India AI Impact Summit 2026: A Forefront of AI Transformation

Posted on by Shobhit Kalra

New Delhi: The India AI Impact Summit 2026, being held in New Delhi, has brought together world leaders, technology companies, startups, and researchers to discuss how artificial intelligence can be built and used in a way that is inclusive, responsible, and focused on real-world outcomes. As the first large-scale AI summit hosted in the Global South, the event reflects India’s growing intention to influence global AI conversations while strengthening its own capabilities.

A major highlight of the summit is the government’s IndiaAI Mission, under which Rs 10,372 crore has been committed to developing a strong national AI framework. The initiative covers shared access to tens of thousands of GPUs, the creation of homegrown foundation models, approval of India-focused AI applications, and large investments in skill-building for students and researchers across academic levels.

With representatives from more than 45 countries in attendance, India AI Impact Summit 2026 features global political leaders alongside senior executives from leading technology firms. Discussions focus on narrowing the AI divide between advanced and emerging economies, building trusted and sovereign AI systems, and ensuring that technology supports jobs and public services. The accompanying AI Impact Expo highlights practical AI use cases across sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, education, and government services.

India AI Imapct Summit 2026 Live Updates Live Blog

Ankit Kumar, CEO of SkyeAir Mobility

AI Impact 2026 reflects a defining shift in how the world sees India. We are no longer perceived as a backend technology hub, we are emerging as builders of globally scalable AI solutions

INDIA WORKING ON OWN DATA CENTRES

During the expo walk-through, it was noted that India is actively working on building its own data centres and developing a stable homegrown compute infrastructure a key sovereignty play.

MODI INAUGURATES EXPO, TOURS BHARAT MANDAPAM

PM Modi officially inaugurated the India AI Impact Expo 2026 and was seen personally touring the exhibition floor at Bharat Mandapam. The Expo is now open.

RANA DAGGUBATI ON AI IN FILMS: "IT WILL REPLACE ALL OF US QUITE QUICKLY"

Actor Rana Daggubati, asked about AI’s impact on cinema at the expo, said bluntly: “It will replace all of us quite quickly.”

CISCO INDIA MD: "SKILLS THAT MATTER MOST ARE HUMAN"

Harish Krishnan, MD & Chief Policy Officer at Cisco Systems India, speaking on ‘Democratising AI Resources for Economic Growth and Social Good’, AI is augmenting essential human capabilities, not replacing them, and the skills that matter most remain human ones.

RAGHAV CHADHA: AI LEVERS OF POWER CONTROLLED BY GPU ACCESS

AAP MP Raghav Chadha speaking at the summit: “In the 21st century, the levers of power will essentially be controlled by those who have access to AI, GPUs, compute capability and data centres.” He warned of a three-layer AI monopoly, design controlled by one US company, 90% of chip manufacturing by one Taiwanese firm, and export controls designating GPUs as strategic assets. Called on India to urgently build its own sovereign compute capability.

NPCI ROLLS OUT UPI ONE WORLD FOR SUMMIT DELEGATES

National Payments Corporation of India has extended its ‘UPI One World’ wallet service to international delegates attending the India AI Impact Summit 2026. This allows foreign visitors to make UPI payments without needing an Indian mobile number or a local bank account. The pilot service is available to delegates from more than 40 countries taking part in the summit, held at New Delhi from February 16 to 20.

SEVEN CHAKRAS FRAMEWORK EXPLAINED ON FLOOR

Sessions are actively running around the summit’s Seven Chakras framework: Human Capital, Inclusion for Social Empowerment, Safe & Trusted AI, Resilience, Innovation & Efficiency, Science, and Democratizing AI Resources. Each chakra has dedicated breakout sessions running simultaneously.

KYNDRYL CEO MARTIN SCHROETER ON STAGE

Speaking to a panel on enterprise AI governance: AI-driven transformation must balance technological advancement with governance, sustainability, and measurable social impact, not just pilot projects.

PM MODI SPEAKS – "AI IS TRANSFORMING EVERYTHING

PM Modi on X: “AI today is transforming several sectors, including healthcare, education, agriculture, governance and enterprise. I am confident that the outcomes of the Summit will help shape a future that is progressive, innovative and opportunity-driven.” He adds: “Thanks to the 1.4 billion people of India, our nation stands at the forefront of the AI transformation.”

SAM ALTMAN: INDIA IS CHATGPT'S #2 MARKET

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirms India now has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, the platform’s second-largest market globally after the United States, driven primarily by the world’s largest cohort of student AI users. OpenAI made ChatGPT Go free for a year in India specifically to capture this demographic.

2.5 LAKH REGISTRATIONS, EXCEEDED ALL EXPECTATIONS

MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan confirms over 250,000 registrations from India and around the world, far beyond what organizers anticipated. All days except February 19 (Modi’s CEO Roundtable) are open to the public. “We never anticipated so many people willing to attend,” Krishnan said.

AI SECURES THE AI SUMMIT

Authorities deploy 10,000+ security personnel across 10 zones and 22 sectors around Bharat Mandapam. The security grid itself runs on AI, 350 AI-enabled cameras, 750+ CCTVs for real-time monitoring, five anti-drone systems, four air defense guns, and 25 bomb disposal teams on standby.

PM Modi Sets to inaugurates the Expo

Prime Minister Narendra Modi sets to open the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam this evening, calling it a matter of “immense pride” that world leaders are converging on India. In a post on X he wrote: “This also shows the capability of our country’s youth.” The formal summit inauguration is set for this evening.