Artificial intelligence is entering a more practical phase. As models become cheaper, technology companies are turning internal AI capabilities into commercial products, Indian IT services firms are deepening their AI partnerships, and businesses are looking for ways to measure whether their AI investments actually deliver results. Meanwhile, new mathematical research from an AI model is…
Brand & Media Intelligence | The Quantiq For decades, the playbook for building a commodity brand was relatively straightforward. Get your product onto the shelf, put your name on a hoarding, run a festive-season advertisement and repeat the message until shoppers remember you. Tea, spices, honey, rice and turmeric are familiar examples. When products appear…
India’s business landscape sent several important signals this week. The Reserve Bank of India raised its policy rate, the Union Cabinet approved a ₹10,000 crore commitment for an SME Growth Fund, and the government signalled another step towards a formal framework for artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, research into hydrogen fuel cells offered a glimpse of how…
Founder Series | The Quantiq How a generation of Northeast entrepreneurs helped build the connectivity on which an economy could grow There was a time when travelling across Assam after sunset was a very different experience. The highways were long stretches of road with very little for a traveller to expect after dark. There were…
Northeast Renaissance Series Assam is already one of the world’s great tea-producing regions. The next opportunity may lie in everything that happens after tea stops being just a beverage. In 2025, Assam produced 687.76 million kg of tea, accounting for 50.2% of India’s total tea production. That is an extraordinary scale of production. But perhaps…
From coffee and startups to semiconductors, tourism and clean energy, Northeast India is becoming part of some much bigger economic and technology stories. This week’s seven developments offer a snapshot of what is changing across the region. They also show why developments in the Northeast deserve attention well beyond India’s borders. Arunachal Pradesh takes a…
On Mahatma Gandhi’s 157th birth anniversary, Khadi once again takes centre stage. Gandhi championed Khadi not simply as a fabric, but as an instrument of self-reliance, rural employment and economic freedom. More than a century later, Khadi has become a ₹7,869-crore market. But are the people who spin and weave it growing with the fabric?…
Founder Series | The Quantiq Some opportunities do not arrive looking like opportunities. Sometimes they come disguised as problems. That is the story of Amitabh Sarma, whose entrepreneurial journey began not with a business plan or a desire to build a resort, but with a problem he was trying to solve more than a decade…
Business & Technology · Startup & Innovation · Sustainability · Northeast India The week begins with an interesting contrast. In Jagiroad, a semiconductor project is moving from construction into trial production. Across India, startup capital is flowing again, but the distribution of that capital remains uneven. Meanwhile, Climate Week India is deliberately decentralising the climate…
The Quantiq | Brand & Media Intelligence For two decades, digital news followed a simple bargain: publish, get discovered, and let search engines send readers to your website. That bargain is changing. AI is only part of the story. For most of the digital era, publishers followed a familiar sequence. They published a story, Google…
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