The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"
—Pope Leo XIV
IDFC FIRST Bank and Sarvam AI have announced a joint R&D lab to develop AI systems that can learn from banking operations, adapt to real-world outcomes and improve over time.
Sarvam said its AI solutions will be deployed on secure, audited infrastructure within India, keeping government data stored within the country.
Sarvam AI announces it is building a trillion-plus parameter foundational model in India at Epoch 2026, while claiming its flagship 105B is 5.5× cheaper than GPT-5.4 Mini.
The collaboration will focus on AI training, capacity building, professional development, joint research, seminars, workshops and AI-focused learning resources.
India has become OpenAI’s second-largest market, surpassing 100 million weekly ChatGPT users. The rapid growth highlights extraordinary adoption, even as questions intensify around ownership, jobs, and who stands to benefit most from the AI boom.
OpenAI has released GABRIEL, an open-source toolkit that uses GPT to turn unstructured text and images into measurable data. Designed for social science research, the tool enables large-scale analysis of qualitative material while maintaining human-level evaluation accuracy.
