What an awful lot of AI news. I promise you, no AI was used in creating this episode. And there was some kind of summit that was indeed impactful (politically).

Timestamps:

0:00:24: (housekeeping) did you know about timestamps?

0:01:27: India AI Impact Summit - what you REALLY need to know

0:03:29: Google is winning the AI race

0:10:54: Local LLMs announced

0:13:22: Sarvam launches smart glasses

0:14:58: Anthropic opens Bangalore Office

0:16:05: NVIDIA partners with a lot of people

0:17:24: OpenAI partners with some people

0:20:00: Airtel quietly removed Perplexity Pro Benefit

0:21:05: Swiggy shuts down Snacc

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TWITI #8 of 2026: Google is winning the AI race