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From record fundraising and landmark listings to high-stakes corporate splits, global tech partnerships and boardroom disputes, here's how 2025 reshaped India's corporate landscape
From text-to-video tools and AI image generation to mobile editing and chat-based creation, generative AI quietly reshaped how content was made in 2025
The move comes after the company shortened the vesting period for new hires to six months from the industry standard of 12 months in April, the report said
A central government-appointed body will collect and distribute these royalties while a separate committee will set rates, subject to judicial review
Media buying executives said that the digital segment is expected to have the highest uplift in advertising volumes, followed by connected TV and streaming platforms
Major Chinese companies including Alibaba and ByteDance have already reached out to Nvidia this week about purchasing the H200 and are keen to place large orders
Sacks' comments raise questions about whether Nvidia will be able to recover revenue from China, a data centre market it has removed entirely from its forecasts
Nadella also added that AI agents, tools and technology are also important in the creation of a frontier success framework
But for many industry experts, the real story was that the technical gap between OpenAI's so-called foundational AI model and everyone else had become practically nonexistent
As part of the licensing deal, Sora and ChatGPT Images will start generating videos using licensed Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Mufasa, from early next year
Under the partnership, Wipro and Microsoft will jointly develop AI solutions for sectors such as financial services, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, life sciences and airports
Compendium of case studies to be showcased at India-AI Impact Summit, focusing on ethical, empowering AI for women and girls
It has unveiled Deccan AI Experts, a specialised talent network enabling India's top professionals to contribute directly to AI model training and evaluation as data replaces compute as key bottleneck
Goldman Sachs Alternatives leads $200 million investment, valuing the platform company at $5.5 billion as demand surges for automated code-to-production workflows
India plans to mandate global AI firms to share revenue as royalties for using Indian creators' content to train LLMs, under a proposed statutory licensing and royalty framework
TCS's $700-million buyout of Salesforce firm Coastal Cloud highlights a stronger AI-focused M&A strategy, but analysts view the valuation as steep and note the market's muted response
Both companies said the partnership would combine their technical strengths to help organisations move beyond AI pilots and embed advanced, responsible AI across daily operations
Nadella also emphasised the importance of digital sovereignty and cybersecurity in an era of expanding AI deployment
The feature, which Nvidia has demonstrated privately in recent months but has not yet released, would be an optional software update that customers could install