January 2025

India now empanelled 18,693 gpus

"I am very happy to say, that against 10,000- gpus, we have actually empanelled 18,693 gpus"
12,896 are (Nvidia) H100s, 1,480 are (Nvidia) H200s – the most powerful GPUs. Overall net high end GPUs we have 15,000 GPUs in the entire process.
[c] DeepSeek was trained on 2,000 GPUs
Ashwini Vaishnaw: This will be used for creating AI models, distillation processes, new algorithms
Roughly, 10,000 GPUs (out of the 18,693) are available today.
"The second big mission of the IndiaAI mission was to develop an AI model. Our teams have been working with startups, academia"
"We have now created the framework which will be launched today. We are calling for proposals to develop our own foundational models, where the Indian context, the Indian languages, the culture of our country where the biases can be removed. Where the datasets, for our country, for our citizens – that process will start today"
"We believe that there are at least 6 major developers who can develop AI models in the 6-8 months on the outer limit, and 4-6 months on a more optimistic estimate"

India's Artificial Sun - The SST-1 (Steady state Superconducting Tokamak-1)

It is situated at IPR, Gandhinagar. SST project was started in 1994. The tokamak was fabricated by 2005, fully commissioned by 2013 and until December of 2017, it has conducted about 20 experiments.
The world's largest, where 500MW of fusion power will be produced by creating, containing and controlling burning plasma.
SST-1 has generated temperatures 20 times greater than the Sun’s core and a magnetic field equivalent to 1,000 times that of the Earth’s normal magnetic field, for a duration of 500 milliseconds.

February 2025

AI summit

India will host the next AI summit, announced by PM Modi ji at Paris AI summit, 2025.

Privately developed Ramjet engine

India's first privately developed Ramjet engine!
Delighted to share that we at HyPrix have successfully tested Tezz - the first privately developed ramjet in India.
This was done over a period of 5 months from design to realization and testing, in collaboration with NCCRD , IIT Madras.

Airtel's undersea cable

Airtel has established direct internet connectivity between India and two European countries using an undersea cable with a length of 21,700 km.
This cable runs from Chennai to Singapore and extends to the French city of Marseille.
This undersea cable will enhance superfast internet access throughout the country.
Earlier, on December 30, 2024, the company connected South Asia with the Middle East and Western Europe by installing another undersea cable from Mumbai, which is set to go live next year.
The cable will link India to Singapore and France through Egypt, providing internet connectivity at an astounding speed of 220 terabits per second (TBPs).
Airtel has successfully connected all five continents with this undersea cable.
To date, the company has laid a total of 34 undersea cables worldwide, connecting regions such as Africa, South Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas.
Apart from India, Airtel is also a prominent telecom operator in Sri Lanka and various African nations. [India Today](Airtel stuns with undersea cable, forging direct links to Singapore, France | Technology News – India TV)

Taxi Bot in delhi airport

Delhi airport introduced the world's first taxi bot
This tech from Israel enabled planes to taxi from parking to runway without starting their engines
This saves $35 million and 213 litres of fuel conserved per flight.

GARBH - INi - DRISHTI Data Repository

GARBH-INi-DRISHTI is the Data Repository and Information Sharing Hub at Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI).
It provides access to clinical data, images, and biospecimens collected from over 12,000 pregnant women, newborns, and postpartum mothers.
Significance: As one of South Asia’s largest maternal and child health databases, GARBH-INi-DRISHTI will empower researchers worldwide to conduct transformative research aimed at improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes.
THSTI: The newly inaugurated THSTI Ferret Research Facility, is a state-of-the-art establishment adhering to the highest biosafety and research standards.
It will serve as a crucial resource for vaccine development, therapeutic testing, and research into emerging infectious diseases

Undersea cable by Meta

Meta has announced a multibillion-dollar investment plan in an undersea cable project to connect India and the US.

March 2025

AI Kosha

India unveils AI Kosha with 316 data sets to assist Indigenous AI Model Development.
The initiative, a key component of the Rs 10,370 crore IndiaAI Mission, aims to provide structured data to help train AI models, particularly in Indian languages.
It is one of the seven pillars of the IndiaAI Mission, a state-backed initiative to advance AI capabilities in India.
14,000 Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have now been commissioned for pooled access, up from the 10,000 announced earlier this year.
The Open Governance Data Platform (data.gov.in) already hosts over 12,000 datasets from various government agencies.
To further encourage data sharing, Chief Data Officers have been designated across ministries and departments, tasked with expanding data availability for researchers, startups, and enterprises. [Swarajya](India Unveils 'AI Kosha' With 316 Datasets To Assist Indigenous Artificial Intelligence Model Development)

Asia's longest hyperloop

410m Hyperloop tube built by students at IIT Madras is now Asia's longest, soon to be the world's longest

$ 400 million Under Sea cable

NTT data commissions 400 Million Dollar worth Under Sea cable network to strengthen Internet connectivity of India and Malaysia.
NTT DATA has nearly 30% market share in India’s Data center industry, making it the largest player in the country.
NTT Data CEO Abhijit Dubey said India ranks among its top 10 revenue-generating markets and is on track to become a top-five market within three years.
Malaysia, India, Singapore Transit (MIST) cable system – an 8,100-kilometre submarine cable linking Malaysia, India, Singapore, and Thailand – will be operational by June 2025.
MIST is NTT Data’s first direct cable system to and from India and will improve international connectivity for the region.
NTT Data, a Tokyo based firm, the world’s third-largest data centre operator and India’s largest, also inaugurated its biggest data centre campus in the country. [Business World](NTT Data To Invest Billions In India, Launches $400 Mn Subsea Cable Project - BW Businessworld)

Matsya-6000: India’s First Titanium Alloy Human Submersible

Gears Up For 6,000-Meter Ocean Exploration
Developed by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences
The vessel is part of the Samudrayaan project under the Deep Ocean Mission, launched in 2021.
Designed to carry 3 scientists in a 2.1 meter diameter personnel sphere
The vessel maintains an internal pressure of 1 atmosphere, even while withstanding the immense external pressure of 720 bars, which is 1.2 times more than the expected pressure at 6,000 meters.
To ensure safety, the submersible is equipped with a DNV-certified Human Support and Safety System (HSSS) that regulates oxygen levels at 20 per cent, keeps CO2 levels below 1,000 ppmv, and controls humidity for crew comfort
The vessel is designed for 12-hour missions but has an emergency endurance of up to 96 hours, ensuring survival in critical situations.
Matsya-6000 is equipped with an Underwater Acoustic Telephone that has been operated and tested for operations up to 10,000 meters depth of human operation vehicles.
The submersible also features a sub-phone for shallow-water operations (500 meters) and multiple emergency power and communication devices.
Matsya-6000 is designed to perpetually float unless made to dive through water filling in its ballast tanks. [Swarajya](Matsya-6000: India’s First Titanium Alloy Human Submersible Gears Up For 6,000-Meter Ocean Exploration — All About It)

June 2025

India's 1st thinking satellite

Hyderabad-based startup, TakeMe2Space, is ready to launch India’s first thinking ‘data compute’ satellite on ISRO’s SSLV (Small Satellite Launch Vehicle) by September.

$2 per minute vs $30 per sq.km

Most companies charge clients based on the area covered by satellites, with rates ranging from $15 to $30 per square kilometre. TakeMe2Space plans to upend this model by charging based on time—as little as $2 per minute. The startup already has a waitlist of 40 clients for its first satellite.

Reducing the cost of transmitting data back to earth for analysis

If successful, companies will no longer need to buy petabytes (equal to 1 million GB) of images at high costs and do the processing themselves on land. By inferring the data in space, TakeMe2Space plans to reduce the data size to megabytes. The challenge is reducing the cost of transmitting all that data back to Earth.

1.5% energy consumed by data centres, IEA

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), data centres globally are responsible for 1.5 per cent of the world’s total energy consumption. In five years, this figure will be at 3 per cent, and in the US, data centres already account for over 4 per cent of annual energy consumption.

Rise of AI increased the need for data centres

The rise of AI has increased the deployment and need for data centres massively, and a McKinsey report estimates that demand for data centres will rise by around 20 per cent a year until 2030.

69% of data centres in India in Hyderabad

According to a March 2025 Anarock Capital report, out of the 440 acres of land acquired to develop data centres across the country, 69 per cent is in Hyderabad alone.

Cost of rocket launch falls

The cost for a rocket launch to Low Earth Orbit falling from $65,000 per kg in the 1980s to $1,500 per kg in 2018. Print

September 2025

India Launches 'Swadeshi' 4G Network

Over 97,500 4G towers, including 92,600 BSNL sites, were commissioned at Rs 37,000 crore with swadeshi technology, on the occasion of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's (BSNL) silver jubilee
India joins Denmark, Sweden, South Korea, and China in manufacturing homegrown telecom equipment
Over 26,700 unconnected villages, in remote, border and left-wing extremism-affected areas will receive connection with this launch.
This will serve over 20 lakh new subscribers.
These towers are solar-powered, making them India's largest cluster of green telecom sites and a step forward in sustainable infrastructure.
Prime Minister also unveiled India's 100 per cent 4G saturation network through digital Bharat Nidhi, where 29,000 to 30,000 villages are connected in a mission-mode project. NDTV