Why Four in Five Indian MSMEs Expect Digital Procurement to Drive Growth

Posted on 31st Aug 2026 06:10:25 in

Tagged as: MSME, digital procurement, India SME Forum, GeM, e-commerce

The India MSME Digital Procurement Report 2026, based on a survey of 27,000-plus Udyam-registered enterprises, shows only 30-40 percent of MSME buying happens online today - yet 80 percent expect digital procurement to drive growth within three years.

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Tencent Hy4 Preview: The 770B Open-Source MoE Model Reshaping the Productivity AI Race

Posted on 31st Aug 2026 06:04:41 in

Tagged as: Tencent, Hunyuan, Hy4, open source AI, LLM, MoE

Tencent has open-sourced Hy4 preview, a 770B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context window that tops blind engineering evaluations against GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3.

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Indian Startup Funding Slips 9% to $5.2 Bn in H1 2026: What Founders Should Know

Posted on 30th Aug 2026 06:09:40 in

Tagged as: startup funding, India startups, venture capital, seed funding, AI startups

Inc42's H1 2026 report shows Indian startups raised $5.2 Bn across 501 deals. Funding value fell 9% YoY, but deal volume rose 7%. Here is what the numbers mean for founders.

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Nvidia Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion: What It Means for Open-Source AI

Posted on 30th Aug 2026 06:04:47 in

Tagged as: Nvidia, Hugging Face, Open Source AI, Acquisition, M&A

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI model hub, for $12.9 billion. Here is what the deal means for chips, cloud, and the open-weight policy debate.

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Kirana 2.0: How DigiDukaan Is Digitising India's 1.4 Crore Neighbourhood Stores

Posted on 29th Aug 2026 06:16:58 in

Tagged as: kirana stores, DigiDukaan, ONDC, retail technology, MSME, small business India

DigiDukaan, the DPIIT-ONDC initiative, is moving India's 1.4 crore kirana stores from phone-call ordering to digital B2B procurement. Here is what it means for shopkeepers, distributors and brands.

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