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Inc42AsiaSoket Labs & ZenteiQ Launch Indigenous AI Models Homegrown AI startups Soket Labs and ZenteiQ AiTech Innovations have rolled out new indigenously-developed large language models (LLMs) under the IndiaAI Mission.

11.03

Inc42AsiaBlue Ashva Exits iD Fresh Food Via A ₹50 Cr Secondary Transaction D2C startup iD Fresh Food’s early backer Blue Ashva Capital has exited the startup’s cap table, offloading its entire stake for ₹50 Cr in a secondary transaction.

11.03

Inc42AsiaPorter Ropes In Ex-Amazon Executive Gaurav Jain As CFO Logistics unicorn Porter has appointed former Amazon executive Gaurav Jain as its CFO, while elevating Shubham Gupta and Mohit Rathi to CTO and CMO roles, respectively.

11.03

Inc42Asia30 Startups To Watch: Startups That Caught Our Eye In October 2026 October was a month of contrasts for the Indian startup ecosystem. While AI, deeptech and advanced manufacturing continued to attract significant investor capital, a series of cybersecurity incidents…

11.03

Inc42AsiaThe Enterprise AI Push For Decision Models The AI race has largely revolved around frontier labs and models that can write, code, analyse documents and reason through prompts.

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Inc42AsiaSachin Tendulkar Backs Hitwicket Parent Metasports Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has backed Metasports Interactive, the gaming startup behind mobile cricket strategy game Hitwicket.

11.03

Inc42AsiaApple Logs Record India Revenue, Mac And Services Hit New Highs Apple reported an all-time revenue record in India in Q4 FY26, with its iPhone business setting a September quarter revenue record and Mac and services revenue reaching new highs.

11.03

Inc42AsiaIndia Becomes ChatGPT’s Largest Market Globally, User Base Doubles Since January India has become ChatGPT’s largest market globally by weekly active users, with its local user base doubling since January 2026, OpenAI India MD Prabhjeet Singh said.

11.03

Inc42AsiaLenDenClub Parent Vartis Platforms Launches UdhaarSaathi For Small Business Loans Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending startup LenDenClub’s parent Vartis Platforms has launched UdhaarSaathi, a digital loan marketplace for small businesses, expanding its lending service provider (LSP)…

11.03

Inc42AsiaPowerUp Money Raises $10 Mn To Expand Wealth Management Services Bengaluru-based wealthtech startup PowerUp Money has raised $10 Mn (₹95 Cr) in a fresh funding round led by Flourish Ventures, with participation from existing investors Peak XV Partners, Accel…

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Inc42AsiaClinics On Cloud Bags ₹120 Cr To Take Its Health ATMs Global Health tech startup Clinics On Cloud has raised ₹120 Cr (around $12.5 Mn) in its Series A funding round from Model42, the medtech-focused investment arm of UAE-based backer Enlightened Minds…

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The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo