Runtime | Indian Tech News | Wednesday, September 10th, 2025

Welcome to Runtime’s daily Indian tech news roundup, hosted by Caleb Friesen. Today, Reliance and OpenAI discuss bringing the $500B Stargate project to India, Yotta invests $1.5B in 8,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, Nothing expands smartphone manufacturing in India, Paras Chopra’s Lossfunk celebrates its first year, The Residency opens a new hub in Koramangala, Starlink secures approvals for satellite internet trials, and Donald Trump’s HIRE Act threatens India’s IT outsourcing industry.

0:00 Reliance and OpenAI in Talks to Bring Stargate to India
0:30 Yotta Adding 8,000 Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs
1:56 Smartphone Brand Nothing Manufacturing in India
2:37 Lossfunk Celebrates Its First Birthday
3:00 The Residency Has a New Location
3:28 Starlink Starting Satellite Internet Trials in India
4:03 Trump's HIRE Could Drastically Impact India's IT Industry

Reliance and OpenAI in Talks to Bring Stargate to India

OpenAI and Reliance are reportedly in talks to bring OpenAI’s 500-billion-dollar Stargate project to India. Discussions have been ongoing for six months, with a focus on installed data centre capacity and power availability. OpenAI is also in talks with other data centre providers including Sify Technologies and Yotta Data Services. Reliance is emerging as a key partner as India positions itself at the center of global AI infrastructure.

Yotta Adding 8,000 Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs

Yotta Data Services will invest 1.5 billion dollars to add 8,000 Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs between December 2025 and January 2026. This follows demand from Indian AI startups, IITs, and research institutions building large language models. Yotta has not yet finished deploying its first 8,000 GPUs, most of which are being used by Soket AI and Sarvam AI under the IndiaAI Mission. Sarvam AI has secured 4,096 H100 GPUs through Yotta and received 99 crore rupees in subsidies. Thanks to Yotta Data Services, India’s total GPU capacity has grown from 18,417 at the start of 2025 to 34,333.

Smartphone Brand Nothing Manufacturing in India

UK smartphone brand Nothing is expanding manufacturing in India. Co-founder Akis Evangelidis said Nothing views India today as China was a decade ago. Nothing plans to scale local production of smartphones and wearables and expand sub-brand CMF from India. Nothing recorded 146% year-over-year shipment growth in Q2 2025, making it India’s fastest-growing smartphone brand. Akis Evangelidis credited the “Make in India” initiative for strengthening manufacturing and supporting Nothing’s long-term plans.

Lossfunk Celebrates Its First Birthday

Paras Chopra’s AI residency program, Lossfunk, has completed its first year. Formerly known as Turing’s Dream, Lossfunk has published its first research paper at ACL Vienna, hosted weekly tech talks on YouTube, and built a community of 150+ members across 20+ active AI research projects. Paras Chopra continues to position Lossfunk as one of India’s leading independent AI labs.

The Residency Has a New Location

The Residency has moved its operations from HSR Layout to Zo House in Koramangala, Bengaluru, where it has launched its sixth cohort. The Residency is known for supporting early-stage founders and technologists, and the new space highlights the growing appeal of Bengaluru as a hub for innovation and community-driven building.

Starlink Starting Satellite Internet Trials in India

Starlink will begin satellite internet trials in India after securing approvals and allocating bandwidth. Starlink has finalized 17 sites for ground stations and is in advanced talks with Jio, Airtel, Tata Communications, Sify Technologies, STT, Equinix, and CtrlS. Starlink is investing 500 crore rupees in these ground stations to comply with Indian regulations by routing and storing downlink traffic locally.

Trump's HIRE Could Drastically Impact India's IT Industry

The Halting International Relocation of Employment Act (HIRE), a new US bill backed by Donald Trump, proposes a 25% tax on outsourced jobs. This could severely impact Indian IT firms like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and HCL, which earn 50–60% of their revenue from North America. A 25% outsourcing tax would squeeze margins, slow down contracts, and force clients to renegotiate or relocate work back to the United States.

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