ET AI Awards 2025: Celebrating startups and SMEs— what does it mean for the Indian AI ecosystem

India’s artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem thrives not only in boardrooms of listed corporations but equally in co-working spaces, industrial clusters, and university incubators across tier-two and tier-three cities. The ET AI Awards 2025 acknowledge this reality by dedicating substantial recognition to startups and small and medium enterprises—the agile innovators and pragmatic adopters whose breakthroughs often set the pace for larger transformations

Levelling the playing field
With seven dedicated startup categories and seven small and…