🚀 Section 01
New AI Tools of the Week
19 July se 26 July 2026 ke beech launch hue naye aur powerful AI tools — India aur Global dono se
🌍 Frontier Week: Google's Stopgap Trio, Kimi K3 Shock, Microsoft's Security Play
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite & 3.5 Flash Cyber
Google ne 21 July ko teen naye Gemini models ship kiye — jabki flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro abhi bhi ready nahi hai, teesri baar target miss karne ke baad. Flash Cyber ek security-tuned variant hai jo sirf governments aur trusted partners ke liye restricted hai. Isi announcement mein Google ne Gemini 4 ke liye ek ambitious naya pretraining run bhi confirm kiya.
Kimi K3 — Moonshot AI ka 2.8T Open-Weight Coding Shock
Moonshot AI ka Kimi K3 ek major coding leaderboard par top spot le chuka hai, aur 27 July ko free weights release honge. US labs ab publicly reassess kar rahe hain ki closed frontier models kitne aage hain — yeh sirf ek benchmark story nahi, ab ek procurement decision ban chuki hai enterprise coding teams ke liye.
Microsoft Project Perception — AI Security Platform
Microsoft apna Project Perception prepare kar raha hai — ek AI cybersecurity platform jo Microsoft, OpenAI aur Anthropic ke models ko orchestration layer ke through combine karta hai, positioned as a lower-cost alternative to Anthropic's Mythos-class security offering. Cheap models triage karte hain, frontier models sirf complex exploit chains ke liye call hote hain.
🇮🇳 India Launch — Made in Bharat
Emergent — Bengaluru's AI Software Creation Platform
India · AI Native
Bengaluru-based Emergent ne Creaegis se $130 million ka round close kiya — is hafte ke India startup funding chart mein sabse bada, nearly 44% capital account karte hue. Emergent ek AI-native software creation platform hai jo natural language se production-ready apps generate karta hai, no-code se agentic dev tools tak ka gap fill karta hai.
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Utho Cloud — 10,000 GPU Sovereign AI Compute Push
India · AI Infra
Utho Cloud ne agle 7-8 quarters mein 10,000 GPUs deploy karne ka plan announce kiya — H200, H100, A100, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell aur L4 GPUs shamil karte hue. Platform Indian rupees mein predictable pricing, DPDP Act-compliant data residency aur 24x7 support offer karega, 51,000+ users ke saath overseas cloud dependency kam karne ke target ke saath.
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BusinessNext — Autonomous Ops AI for Banking
India · Fintech AI
Noida-based BusinessNext ne ServiceNow se $40 million ka Series C investment secure kiya, company ko $700 million par valued karte hue. Funding banking aur financial services ke liye autonomous operations aur private AI solutions ko strengthen karega.
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🌍 Global Top Picks — Must-Know Tools
ChatGPT for Small Business — Free Onboarding Program
Global · SMB
OpenAI ne 21 July ko ChatGPT for Small Businesses program launch kiya — virtual webinars, in-person AI academies, resource hub aur Shopify, Intuit, Dropbox, Slack, Atlassian aur Wix jaise partner integrations. GPT-5.6 powered ChatGPT Work ab small businesses ke liye directly available hai.
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SAP Prior Labs — Tabular Foundation Model Lab
Global · Enterprise Data
SAP ne Prior Labs (Freiburg) ka acquisition complete kiya aur agle 4 saalon mein €1 billion+ invest karne ka commit kiya — tabular foundation models ke liye, jo enterprise ke structured data (tables, ledgers, transaction records) par language models se better perform karte hain. Prior Labs' TabPFN series Nature mein publish ho chuki hai.
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DeepSeek V4 — Stable Release Incoming (24 July)
Global · Open-Weight
DeepSeek ka V4 stable release 24 July ko land karta hai, preview-build churn ko end karte hue jo cautious enterprises ko production workloads move karne se rok raha tha. ~$0.44 per million output tokens ke saath, yeh industry ka price-floor benchmark bana hua hai.
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📅 Section 02
Upcoming AI Events & Hackathons
India-first priority — register karo, networking karo, build karo
🇮🇳 India Events — Apna Desh, Apna Stage
DataHack Summit 2026 — "Human x AI: Rise of the Agentic Operating Layer"
5–8 August 2026 · The Leela Bhartiya City, Bengaluru
Analytics Vidhya ka 7th edition — India ka sabse practitioner-friendly AI conference. 1,400+ attendees, 80+ sessions, 15+ hands-on workshops. Live Hack Sessions jahan experts real AI models build karke stage par deploy karte hain. Registration deadline ab qareeb aa rahi hai.
Register Now →
4th Information Technology Conference 2026
5–8 August 2026 · The Leela Bhartiya City, Bengaluru
Enterprise technology leaders ke liye platform — CIOs, CTOs, CISOs ke saath AI adoption, cybersecurity readiness aur cloud transformation par practical strategies. Digital enterprise resilience build karne wale AI leaders ke liye must-attend.
Register Now →
Bengaluru Tech Summit 2026 — "AI & Beyond"
17–19 November 2026 · BIEC, Bengaluru
India ka premier technology summit — theme "AI & Beyond" ke saath. 6000+ attendees, policymakers, aur global tech leaders ke saath networking. Startup Registration abhi open hai.
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🌍 Global — India Relevant Events
Open-Weight Countdown — DeepSeek V4 & Kimi K3
24 & 27 July 2026 · Global Release
Do dates jo baaki July anchor karti hain: DeepSeek V4 stable release 24 July ko, aur Kimi K3 ke open weights 27 July ko free ho jayenge. Indian teams jo frontier API costs par heavily spend kar rahe hain unke liye yeh evaluation ka best window hai — apne workloads test karo aur numbers ko decide karne do.
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EU AI Act — August 2 Enforcement Deadline
2 August 2026 · European Union
EU AI Act ka sabse bada enforcement date sirf kuch din door hai — transparency aur GPAI (general-purpose AI) rules is date se effect mein aa jayenge, jabki high-risk regime December 2027 aur August 2028 tak deferred ho chuka hai. Indian companies jo EU users serve karte hain unke liye compliance checkpoint.
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🔬 Section 03
Top Research Papers
Dono — global aur India se — jo AI ke future ko shape kar rahe hain
🇮🇳 India Research & Ecosystem — Desi Data, Global Scale
Bar Council of India Committee — AI-Hallucination Misconduct Norms
Bar Council of India · Committee Formation · July 2026
Supreme Court ke 2 July ruling ke follow-up mein, jisne AI-generated fake precedents wale orders set aside kiye the, Bar Council of India ab ek committee constitute kar raha hai jo unverified AI output cite karne par disciplinary norms prescribe karegi. Court ne isse advocates ke liye misconduct aur adjudicators ke liye serious lapse declare kiya hai — legal AI tools use karne wale Indian developers aur law-tech founders ke liye directly relevant.
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IISc Vision & AI Lab — India's Top-Ranked AI Research Lab
IISc Bengaluru · CSRankings Recognition · July 2026
CSRankings.org ne IISc ke Vision & AI Lab ko India ka top AI research lab recognize kiya hai. Lab ke 3 papers ECCV 2026 mein accept hue hain aur ek paper CVPR 2026 mein Best Paper Finalist raha — dataset distillation aur soft-label research par focus karte hue. Indian AI research talent pipeline ka strong signal.
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🌍 Global Research — Agentic AI & Reliability Focus
AgenticDataBench — Benchmarking LLM Data Agents
arXiv · Benchmark Release · 2 July 2026
Naya benchmark LLM-based data agents ko 15 domains aur 5 real-world B2B fintech use cases mein evaluate karta hai — schema inspection, joins, cleaning, visualization aur business-context reasoning jaise skills ke through. Data-science teams ke liye agent reliability test karne ka concrete tareeka, sirf polished demo par bharosa karne ke bajaye.
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AgentRedBench & SkillCorpus — Agent Safety and Skill Ecosystems
arXiv Research Digest · 20 July 2026
Ek fresh research roundup 4 practical areas cover karta hai: secure/robust agents, long-context efficiency aur domain benchmarks. AgentRedBench 215 underspecified authorization attack scenarios test karta hai 24 SaaS integrations par, jabki SkillCorpus 96,000 curated skills aggregate karta hai retrieval-based agent performance improve karne ke liye.
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AI Text Detectors Fail Against Style-Imitation Prompts
Epoch AI · Study · July 2026
Epoch AI ne teen leading AI text detectors test kiye ek specific author ki writing style imitate karne wale text ke against — aur paaya ki up to 18% AI-generated passages undetected reh gaye, especially scientific writing mein. Universities aur publishers jo academic integrity ke liye detectors par depend karte hain unke liye caution signal.
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⚰️ Section 04
AI Graveyard
Jo launch hua, woh band bhi ho gaya — yahan milta hai pura post-mortem
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Claude Fable 5 — Free-Included Access Ends After Three Extensions
Pricing Transition · Ended 19 July 2026
- Tha kya: Anthropic ne paid subscribers ko Claude Fable 5 free-included access diya tha (50% weekly usage tak), jo original June 22 deadline se teen baar extend ki gayi.
- Kyun mara: Anthropic ke paas sufficient computing capacity nahi thi Fable 5 ko standard subscription part banane ke liye, aur competitive pressure (GPT-5.6 Sol, Kimi K3) ke against timing mushkil thi.
- Kya hua: 19 July ke baad Fable 5 usage prepaid credits ($10/million input, $50/million output tokens) se draw hota hai — kisi bhi Anthropic consumer model ke liye pehli usage-based pricing.
Source: BleepingComputer, Dataconomy · July 2026
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ChatGPT Atlas Browser — Shutting Down August 9
Standalone Product · Deprecated July 9, Shuts August 9, 2026
- Tha kya: OpenAI ka macOS-first AI browser, built-in memory aur autonomous "Agent Mode" ke saath — launch hone ke 10 mahine baad hi retire ho raha hai.
- Kyun mara: OpenAI browser-based agentic capabilities ko ChatGPT desktop app, Chrome integration aur Codex mein consolidate kar raha hai — standalone browser maintain karne ke bajaye.
- Kya hua: Users ke paas roughly 30-day migration window hai apna data export karne ke liye, deadline 9 August 2026.
Source: TechTimes, Windows Forum · July 2026
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18 Legacy OpenAI Model Snapshots — Shut Down July 23
API Deprecation · Announced April 22, Effective 23 July 2026
- Tha kya: April 22 ko announce kiye gaye 18 legacy model snapshots — search, audio, coding aur research tools spanning — jo 23 July ko API se completely inaccessible ho gaye.
- Kyun mara: OpenAI reliability improve karne aur developers ke liye model choice simplify karne ke liye purane, declining-usage models ko regularly retire kar raha hai.
- Kya hua: Har production system jo hardcoded model names use karta hai woh break ho sakta hai — developers ko model IDs config mein rakhne aur replacement models test karne ki advice di gayi hai.
Source: eCorpIT, OpenAI Developer Forum · July 2026
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Open-weight offensive ne closed frontier labs ke liye ek genuine dilemma create kar diya hai — Kimi K3 free weights de raha hai, DeepSeek V4 price floor set kar raha hai, aur Claude Fable 5 credits ki taraf move kar raha hai isi hafte. Jo companies pricing power maintain karna chahti hain unhe ab quality ke saath-saath cost economics par bhi compete karna padega.
— Industry Analysis, July 2026
🤖 Section 05
Models & Products — Latest Launches
Sabse important model releases — July 2026 (Week 4) ka complete rundown
🌍 Frontier Model Updates — Global Leaders
Gemini 3.6 Flash Trio
Google
- Shipped: July 21, 2026
- 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, Flash Cyber
- Flash Cyber: security-tuned, restricted
- Gemini 3.5 Pro still not ready
Kimi K3
Moonshot AI
- 2.8 trillion parameters
- #1 major coding leaderboard
- Open weights: July 27, 2026
- Coding & agent specialist
GPT-5.6 Lineup (Sol/Terra/Luna)
OpenAI
- Launched: July 9, 2026
- Powers ChatGPT Work agent tool
- Now bundled for small business
- Sol competes with Fable 5 on cost
⚡ Benchmark Snapshot — July 2026 (Week 4)
Best Open Coding Model
Kimi K3
#1 Coding Leaderboard
Biggest Regulatory Action
EU vs Google
Android Opened by 2027
Biggest AI-Funded Layoff
Oracle
30,000 Jobs Cut
Biggest India Raise
Emergent
$130M Series
🇮🇳 India AI Products — Sovereign Compute & Enterprise AI
Emergent Platform
Emergent
- $130M from Creaegis
- AI-native software creation
- Bengaluru-based
- Top India deal this week
Utho Cloud Sovereign GPU
Utho Cloud
- 10,000 GPUs planned
- H200, H100, Blackwell, L4
- INR-priced, DPDP-compliant
- 51,000+ existing users
BusinessNext Autonomous Ops
BusinessNext
- $700M valuation
- $40M from ServiceNow
- Banking & financial services AI
- Noida-headquartered
💼 Section 06
Business, Startups & Funding
Paisa kahan ja raha hai, kaun bada ho raha hai — India AI economy ka full picture
$209M
India Startup Funding — 18-24 July, Down 26% WoW
$130M
Emergent — AI Software Creation Platform
$52M
Zetwerk — Pre-IPO Round, Week's Top Deal
$700M
BusinessNext — Valuation After ServiceNow Investment
India Startup Investors Look Beyond AI — Manufacturing & DeepTech Lead
18-24 July ke beech Indian startups ne $209.1 million raise kiya — pichhle hafte se 26% kam, aur deal count 24 se ghatkar 14 ho gaya. Investors ab AI headlines ke bajaye manufacturing, aerospace, enterprise software aur healthtech ki taraf capital move kar rahe hain. Zetwerk ka $52 million pre-IPO round hafte ka sabse bada tha. July ka total funding ab roughly $820 million tak pahuncha hai, June ke $1.91 billion se kaafi kam — jo more disciplined investment environment signal karta hai.
Emergent Raises $130M — Bengaluru's AI Software Creation Platform
Bengaluru-based Emergent ne Creaegis se $130 million raise kiya, is hafte ke India funding chart mein nearly 44% capital account karte hue. Emergent ek AI software creation platform hai — natural language se production-ready applications generate karta hai, cost-sensitive Indian dev teams aur AI-native founders ke liye directly relevant example.
BusinessNext Hits $700M Valuation With ServiceNow's $40M Bet
Noida-based BusinessNext ne ServiceNow se $40 million ka Series C secure kiya, valuation $700 million tak le jaate hue. Funding autonomous operations aur private AI solutions ko banking aur financial services sector ke liye strengthen karega.
Oracle Cuts Up to 30,000 Jobs to Fund $500B Stargate Buildout
Oracle apna workforce ka roughly 18% cut kar raha hai — $8-10 billion annual cash flow free karne ke liye Stargate AI infrastructure ke liye, jo OpenAI aur SoftBank ke saath $500 billion initiative hai. Cuts Oracle Health, cloud infra aur consulting teams ko hardest hit karte hain, jabki Stargate data center teams ko spare kiya gaya hai.
SAP Commits €1B+ to Prior Labs — Betting on Tabular AI Over Chatbots
SAP ne Prior Labs acquisition complete kiya aur 4 saalon mein €1 billion+ invest karne ka commit kiya — enterprise structured data (tables, ledgers, transaction records) ke liye purpose-built AI banane ke liye. Ek contrarian bet jo chatbot race ko completely ignore karta hai.
Utho Cloud Commits to 10,000-GPU Sovereign AI Infrastructure
Utho Cloud ne 7-8 quarters mein 10,000 GPUs deploy karne ka plan announce kiya — India ke sovereign AI compute base ko strengthen karte hue. Enterprises, startups, researchers aur government organisations ke liye domestic, DPDP-compliant AI computing offer karega.
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Capital ne AI se retreat nahi kiya hai — bas quietly direction change ki hai. Investors ab factories, banking software, aerospace tech aur healthcare infrastructure build karne wali companies ko back kar rahe hain. Yeh pattern suggest karta hai ki venture capital ab zyada diversified ho raha hai, India ke long-term industrial transformation ke saath tied companies ki taraf favouring.
— Industry Analysis, TICE News, July 2026
❓ Section 07
Quick Questions — AI Explained Simply
Is hafte ke sabse interesting sawaal aur unke straight answers
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Kimi K3 kya hai aur yeh US AI industry ko kyun hila raha hai?
Kimi K3, Moonshot AI ka 2.8 trillion parameter open model hai jo ek major coding leaderboard par top spot le chuka hai — aur 27 July ko iske weights free release honge. Yeh pehli baar hai jab ek Chinese open model sirf sasta nahi, balki genuinely capability par bhi jeeta hai, jo American labs ke liye ek difficult argument bana deta hai.
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EU ne Google ke Android ke against kya action liya?
European Commission ne Digital Markets Act ke under binding order diya ki Google apna Android rival AI assistants ke liye khole (11 feature groups mein voice activation aur cross-app capabilities) aur anonymized search data competitors ke saath share kare. Search data sharing January 2027 se aur Android interoperability July 2027 tak.
03
Claude Fable 5 ab free mein use nahi kar sakte?
19 July 2026 ko Anthropic ka free-included access khatam ho gaya, teen extensions ke baad. Ab Fable 5 usage prepaid credits ($10/million input, $50/million output tokens) se draw hota hai — jo kisi bhi Anthropic consumer model ke liye pehli usage-based pricing hai.
04
Gemini 3.5 Pro itna delay kyun ho raha hai?
Gemini 3.5 Pro apna July 17 target teesri baar miss kar gaya, coding aur complex reasoning testing mein short girne ke baad — Google ne June mein original base model scrap karke pretraining restart ki thi. Stopgap ke roop mein Google ne 21 July ko Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite aur security-tuned Flash Cyber ship kiye, jabki Gemini 4 ke liye naya ambitious pretraining run bhi confirm kiya.
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Is hafte India startup funding kam kyun hua?
18-24 July ke beech funding $209.1 million tha, pichhle hafte se 26% kam, aur deal count 24 se 14 ho gaya. Investors ab AI headlines ke bajaye manufacturing, aerospace, enterprise software aur healthtech jaise sectors ko prefer kar rahe hain — jo VC discipline aur diversification badhne ka signal hai, na ki AI mein interest kam hona.
06
Oracle 30,000 jobs kyun cut kar raha hai?
Oracle apna roughly 18% workforce cut kar raha hai — $8-10 billion annual cash flow free karne ke liye AI data center construction ke liye. Yeh Stargate ke liye fund karta hai, OpenAI aur SoftBank ke saath $500 billion infrastructure initiative, jisme Oracle ka OpenAI ke saath $300 billion five-year cloud contract shamil hai.
🇮🇳 Section 08
India AI Beat — Desi Developments
India-specific AI moves jo directly humare ecosystem ko affect karte hain
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Utho Cloud Commits to 10,000 GPUs for Sovereign AI Infrastructure
Utho Cloud ne agle 7-8 quarters mein 10,000 GPUs deploy karne ka plan announce kiya — H200, H100, A100, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell aur L4 GPUs shamil karte hue. Platform INR mein predictable pricing, DPDP Act-compliant data residency, aur 51,000+ existing users ke saath overseas cloud dependency kam karne ka target rakhta hai.
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Telangana Launches India's First Green Skills & Applied AI CoE
Telangana ne Hyderabad mein India ka pehla Green Skills and Applied AI Centre of Excellence launch kiya — Microsoft, MeitY Start-Up Hub aur 1M1B Foundation ke partnership mein, Green Pharma ke liye dedicated. Facility August 2026 tak operational hogi aur youth ko AI aur sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing mein train karegi.
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C-DAC Moves Indigenous AI Inference Chip to Trial Production
India's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) ne apna indigenous AI inference chip trial production mein move kiya hai, HCL Infosystems ke saath partner karke design aur performance validate karne ke liye. India ke ₹1.27 trillion SEMICON mission ke under semiconductor journey mein ek crucial step.
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Bar Council of India Committee Formed for AI-Citation Discipline
Supreme Court ke 2 July order ke baad — jisne AI-generated fake precedents wale tribunal orders set aside kiye the — Bar Council of India ab ek committee constitute kar raha hai jo unverified AI output citation par disciplinary norms prescribe karegi. Legal-tech founders aur RAG-based legal AI teams ke liye directly relevant governance signal.
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India Startup Funding Slows, Shifts Beyond AI This Week
18-24 July ke beech Indian startup funding $209.1 million tha — 26% down week-on-week, deal count 24 se 14 par aa gaya. Investors ab manufacturing, aerospace, enterprise software aur healthtech ko AI headlines se zyada prefer kar rahe hain, jo capital ka broader diversification signal karta hai.
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Emergent's $130M Raise Signals AI-Native Dev Tools Momentum
Bengaluru-based Emergent ne Creaegis se $130 million raise kiya — hafte ke India funding chart mein nearly 44% account karte hue. AI-native software creation platforms ab India ke sabse well-funded categories mein se ek ban rahe hain, placement-seeking AI engineers ke liye ek naya career track bhi signal karte hue.
💼 Section 09
AI Jobs This Week
India mein top AI roles — apply karo before they fill up
🔥 This Week's Hot Skills — July 2026 (Week 4)
Emergent aur Utho Cloud ke naye raises ke baad AI-native dev tools aur sovereign infra roles ki demand badh gayi hai. Microsoft ke Project Perception jaisa multi-model orchestration bhi ek naya hiring trend banata dikh raha hai.
Generative AI Engineer — RAG & Agentic Workflows
Techolution · Bengaluru / Remote
AI Platform Engineer — Software Creation Tools
Emergent · Bengaluru
GenAI LLMOps Engineer — Production LLM Deployment
Revolite Infotech · Remote / India
Cloud AI Infrastructure Engineer — Sovereign GPU Platform
Utho Cloud · Remote / India
Senior GenAI Engineer — Banking & Financial Services AI
BusinessNext · Noida
💰 AI Salary Ranges — India Market · July 2026
Junior (0-2 Years)
₹8-15 LPA
Mid (3-5 Years)
₹18-35 LPA
Senior (6-10 Years)
₹40-75 LPA
Lead/Staff (10+ Years)
₹80L-1.5 Cr+
🎓 Section 10
Grants & Fellowships
Free money aur support jo tumhe apne AI project ke liye mil sakta hai
🇮🇳 India-Specific Grants
🌍 Global Grants — India Eligible