Sarvam AI, India's IndiaAI Mission-backed startup, released two open-source MoE reasoning models — Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B — under the Apache 2.0 licence on Hugging Face and AIKosh, both trained from scratch on government compute. For builders, this means production-ready Indic-language model weights are now freely available to fine-tune or deploy, eliminating the need to rely on OpenAI or Google APIs for Indian-language use cases.
On 15 September 2025, the RBI issued the Reserve Bank of India (Regulation of Payment Aggregators) Directions 2025, consolidating and superseding all earlier PA/PG regulatory frameworks into a single operative document. Any team building a checkout, embedded payments, or merchant-facing collection flow now has one definitive compliance reference — non-compliance is no longer a grey-zone risk but a clear regulatory breach.
India's DPIIT issued Gazette Notification G.S.R. 108(E) on 4 February 2026, replacing the 2019 startup framework and creating a formal 'Deep Tech Startup' category with up to 20 years of recognised startup status and a ₹300 crore turnover ceiling for benefits — double the old 10-year window and 3x the revenue threshold. Founders in AI, semiconductors, biotech, or space building long-gestation products can now retain tax benefits, grants, and regulatory privileges far beyond what the old framework allowed.
The IndiaAI Mission has onboarded over 38,000 GPUs on its compute portal offered at roughly ₹115–₹150 per GPU-hour, about 42% below commercial cloud rates, and has simultaneously opened applications for Cohort 2 of its Startups Global programme — a 4-month funded stint in Paris via Station F and HEC Paris for 10 selected Indian AI startups. Builders training Indic or vertical AI models can now slash their compute burn significantly, while the Paris cohort offers a direct route to global enterprise and investor networks.
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