A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India
The country's rise as a hotbed of AI-related activity is underlined by the dollars flowing into companies leveraging AI
The IMF projections show India is expected to overtake Japan only in FY26, when its GDP is forecast to hit $4.187 trillion, ahead of Japan's projected $4.186 trillion for calendar year 2025
This list by Forbes India and Accel celebrates trailblazers steering AI's future
With a focus on sovereign AI, foundational models, and practical applications, Indian companies deploying AI in their products and solutions attracted more than $1 billion in venture capital funding, a 50 percent increase over the previous year
A 1995-batch IAS officer with over two decades of experience, Singh has learnt the ins and outs of governance. Now, he is leading India's AI mission with a focus on foundational models, applications to leapfrog global competitors
In a rapidly emerging agentic landscape, developers sit at the centre of transformation, and while AI raises valid questions about the future of their work, it isn't completely replacing developers. Rather, it's redefining their role and unlocking new opportunities, the president and chief engineering officer of Salesforce writes
As the CEO of Bhashini, Nag is helping build the government's platform to make digital content and services more accessible across India's diverse languages
The Palo Alto-based company's generative AI scans through large swathes of organisational data and offers document summaries and data extractions to work more efficiently and effectively
Essential AI's open science frontier model uses a research approach that focusses on sharing and openness in all stages of the scientific process
The head of Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI, IIT Madras, has pioneered research in reinforcement learning, shaping national AI policies to create powerful and responsible AI
Perplexity AI is giving the biggies a run for their money by rewriting the playbook of online search queries with an innovative AI-powered search engine
As the principal investigator of BharatGen—a government-backed effort, led by a consortium of top Indian institutions, to develop multilingual and multimodal generative AI models for India—Ramakrishnan champions accessibility and inclusion in AI
Niramai's flagship product, Thermalytix, combines the power of artificial intelligence and thermal imaging for early detection of breast cancer, underlining Manjunath's belief that no one needs to die of breast cancer as long as it is detected early