AI Updates

📰 Key AI news & updates

1. OpenAI offers its “ChatGPT Go” plan free for one year to users in India starting 4 Nov 2025. 
   What it means: This lowers the barrier for Indian users to adopt advanced generative AI, potentially accelerating usage, data feedback, and local adaptation.

2. Google committed about US$15 billion over 5 years to build a large AI / data center / infrastructure hub in Visakhapatnam, India (Andhra Pradesh).
   What it means: Major compute infrastructure investment strengthens India’s capacity to host AI workloads locally, supporting data sovereignty, AI startups, and large scale training / inference.

3. Anthropic expanded global operations to India, establishing an Asia Pacific presence.
   What it means: Signals demand for AI safety / model / enterprise use in India; could lead to more localized products, regulatory compliance and partnerships with local customers or research.

4. Adobe announced new AI‑powered tools at its annual conference (Adobe Max 2025), including generative soundtrack, image model updates, AI assistants for designers and multimedia creators. 
   What it means: Creative & design workflows are being further empowered by generative AI functionality, lowering effort for multimedia content — relevant for Indian creators, agencies and media.

5. Recent security & AI news highlights many new vulnerabilities / zero‑day issues + growing pressure on organisations to secure AI pipelines. 
   What it means: As adoption of AI increases, especially in enterprises or public systems, security / compliance / governance becomes more critical to manage risk.

🔧 One tool to try

Try out the free one‑year “ChatGPT Go” plan in India (from OpenAI) — gives you access to generative features without subscription cost for a period, useful for experimenting, prototyping or learning with fewer constraints.

📈 One repo / chart

Keep an eye on India’s official portal for AI innovation & challenges: the AI Impact Summit 2026 includes “Global Impact Challenges” with funding / prize pools (for innovators, including women‑led projects).