The October 2025 edition of AIM Print charts how India’s AI ambitions are evolving from hype to hard infrastructure. From language standards to sovereign compute, the issue examines what it will take for India to build AI on its own terms — across languages, hardware, and regulation.
Cover Story: IndiaAI Mission — Building the Backbone of Sovereign AI
Twelve Indian firms, from BharatGen to Tech Mahindra, Fractal, and Avataar.ai, have joined forces to create multilingual, multimodal foundation models under the IndiaAI Mission. Backed by nearly ₹1,200 crore and 40,000 GPUs, the mission aims to position India as a producer—not just a consumer—of AI technologies. The story explores the GPU arms race, sovereign data ambitions, and the friction between policy, execution, and global competitiveness.
The Cost of Broken Language Standards
Vivekanand Pani of Reverie Language Technologies warns that India’s AI mission is “money wasted” unless India fixes its broken Indic language encoding. From ISCII to Unicode, decades of incompatible standards have left Indian languages underrepresented online. Without fixing these fundamentals, synthetic data will only deepen the divide.
Gleam Could Be the Next Rust
The rising programming language Gleam is winning over developers for its blend of static typing and the robustness of the BEAM ecosystem. Outperforming Elixir and Zig in developer admiration, it’s fast emerging as a functional programming favorite among startups.
Google Veo 3 Powers India’s First AI Microdramas
Dashverse’s Raftaar, built on Frameo.AI, has become India’s first fully AI-generated microdrama—amassing over a million views. The Bengaluru-based startup is pioneering AI-driven storytelling, using Google Veo 3 and 32 H100 GPUs to bridge imagination and production for short-form entertainment.
Can Remote Work Cushion the H-1B Blow?
As the U.S. hikes its H-1B visa fee to $100,000, AIM explores how GCCs and remote work could become the new buffer for tech talent. While big tech can absorb the hit, startups may struggle to balance costs, cross-border compliance, and collaboration.
The Leather Jacket and the Trillion-Dollar Flywheel
A deep dive into NVIDIA’s meteoric rise from $1T to $4.5T under Jensen Huang—and how CUDA, not just chips, created the world’s most powerful tech moat. From AI data centers to robots, quantum computing, and China’s chip race, the feature examines NVIDIA’s dominance and fragility in a one-company AI world.
Beyond Bengaluru: Mangaluru’s Tech Identity
While India’s AI ecosystem remains Bengaluru-centric, Mangaluru is crafting its own story—applying deep tech to seafood logistics, ports, and sustainability. Karnataka’s push to expand subsidies to Tier-2 cities is redefining what it means to “build in India”.
India’s New Shield Against Prescription Errors
SafeRx, an AI-powered EMR integration tool, prevents prescription mistakes by cross-checking against drug databases and contraindications. It’s one of India’s most tangible examples of AI improving clinical safety.
GraphRAG Could Rewrite the AI Formula
A new technique, GraphRAG, may redefine how large models reason by connecting concepts as graphs instead of plain text—a leap forward for retrieval-augmented generation.
Research-Starved Nation Hungry for AI
India’s R&D ecosystem remains underfunded, with calls for a “Thousand Talents”-style program to bring researchers home. The feature argues that sovereignty begins in labs, not policy papers.
Gaming Ban Puts AI on the Line
As Nepal’s social media blackout and India’s gaming bans ripple through the region, AIM explores how AI-driven gaming ecosystems could be collateral damage in the regulatory crossfire.
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