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Microsoft's $10B Japan AI Bet and the 1M-Engineer Pledge
☁️Cloud & DevOps9 min read

Microsoft's $10B Japan AI Bet and the 1M-Engineer Pledge

Brad Smith announced a four-year, $10 billion commitment to Japan covering GPU data centres with SoftBank and Sakura Internet, national cybersecurity partnerships, and training 1M+ engineers by 2030.

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Jun 1, 20261 reads
Inside the IndiaAI Mission: India's Sovereign LLM Bet
🤖AI & Machine Learning8 min read

Inside the IndiaAI Mission: India's Sovereign LLM Bet

India's ₹10,000cr IndiaAI Mission picked 12 teams — Sarvam, Soket, Gnani and more — to build homegrown foundational models on subsidised GPUs. Inside the country's sovereign-AI bet.

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May 26, 20263 reads
India's Startup Funding Reset: Discipline and the AI Premium
💻Technology8 min read

India's Startup Funding Reset: Discipline and the AI Premium

Indian startups have raised $7.36B in 2026, down about 12% — but the real story is discipline and a 2–3x 'AI premium.' What the funding reset means for founders after the winter.

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May 26, 20261 reads