India’s Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) ecosystem is growing fast, with over 890 GenAI startups operating across the country in 2025. However, this growth is not evenly spread. A small group of states accounts for the bulk of GenAI startup activity, highlighting where talent, capital and tech ecosystems are most concentrated.
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Positioning Bengaluru as India’s global hub for animation, visual effects, gaming and extended reality (AVGC-XR), the Government of Karnataka on Monday announced Bengaluru GAFX 2026 with a strong push towards AI-driven creativity and next-generation storytelling.
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The India AI Impact Summit 2026, scheduled to be held in New Delhi from February 16 to 20, has received over 35,000 registrations ahead of the event, indicating wide global interest. Officials said the response so far makes it the largest among the four global AI summits organised to date. Media registration for the summit is currently open, with February 8 set as the deadline to apply.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly exploring an ambitious plan to power artificial intelligence infrastructure using solar energy harvested in orbit, according to a recent filing with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The proposal outlines a concept where large numbers of satellites could function as space-based power and computing platforms for AI workloads — a move that could significantly change how high-energy data processing is handled in the future.
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As India debates how to regulate AI without slowing innovation, Karnataka positions itself as a state where policy is designed to enable deployment, not just experimentation. During an interaction at the India Digital Summit 2026 in Bengaluru, Dr Manjula N, Secretary to the Government, Department of Electronics, IT, Biotechnology, and Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka, outlines how the state is strengthening itself as an active innovation enabler as technology paradigms rapidly evolve
Karnataka is already a favourite among start-ups, given its position as the country’s top information technology (IT) software hub. And, once again, it clinches the top spot in the Outlook Business Outperformers 2026 rankings. With its dominance in software exports and global IT services, the state secures an overall score of 83.3 and first place among peers for starting up.
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As India pushes into electronics manufacturing, electric vehicles (EVs) and semiconductors, the state is positioning itself as the nerve centre of design, engineering and systems integration. This is also a competitive response.
“This is a conscious choice. Karnataka is not trying to compete on who can offer the cheapest factory floor. Historically, manufacturing has followed where design decisions are made, because that’s where long-term value gets anchored,” says BV Naidu, chairman of the Karnataka Digital Economy Mission.
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Australia is set to significantly deepen its engagement with Karnataka, with the University of New South Wales Bengaluru Campus emerging as a key pillar of expanding bilateral cooperation across education, technology and business.The development reinforces Karnataka’s growing role as a strategic hub in the Australia–India partnership.Addressing delegates at an interactive session on tariff-free access for Indian exporters under the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), Vik Singh, Consul (Commercial) and Trade & Investment Commissioner, South Asia, Australian Trade and Investment Commission, highlighted the accelerating momentum in Australia-India relations.
India’s initiatives in the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing space — through mission-driven, industry-linked research and development — signal a shift towards the government concentrating resources in priority domains, the Economic Survey for 2025-26 has said.
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India’s IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday laid out an ambitious roadmap for India’s semiconductor push, saying the government plans to support at least 50 fabless chip companies in the next phase of the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM), also called ISM 2.0, by scaling up the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme, with the long-term goal of producing “one AMD” and “one Qualcomm” out of the country.
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