| |OCTOBER 20269Payments firm Razorpay, preparing for a public listing, has teamed up with OpenAI to assist Indian businesses in advertising on ChatGPT, strengthening a collaboration that began last year focused on AI-driven commerce and payments.Through this collaboration, Razorpay Engage, which is Razorpay's growth marketing platform, will offer brands the tools and operational framework necessary to create product catalogs, organize product feeds, initiate campaigns, and evaluate performance on ChatGPT Ads.Initially, the program will involve brands such as Tanishq, Fastrack (owned by Titan), Traya, Tata Neu, Palmonas, Shaadi.com, Axis Max Life, Rivaah by Tanishq, and NMIMS.Razorpay announced that Engage will evaluate if a brand's catalogue is suitable for ChatGPT Ads, organize product feeds, develop and oversee campaigns, and offer measurement and optimization."Instead of searching through a fixed set of options, people can describe what they need, explore possibilities, and refine their choices through conversation," Nitin Bawankule, Head of Enterprise Sales, India, OpenAI, said in a statement. "Ads can help brands show up meaningfully in those moments, while preserving the trust people place in ChatGPT." Gnani AI, the frontier AI company, today announced Gnani Ascent, its flagship partner program built to accelerate the adoption of sovereign, frontier-grade AI across enterprises.As enterprises move from AI experimentation to production, the challenge is increasingly not mere access to intelligence alone, but integrating it into the systems, workflows and environments where businesses operate. Ascent addresses that shift by bringing together the right combination of technology, domain, infrastructure and implementation partners around each enterprise's AI transformation.The launch builds on Gnani AI's sovereign AI stack unveiled in New Delhi, India on 28 August 2026 by Shri C.P. Radhakrishnan, Vice-President of India. Ascent extends that technology foundation into an ecosystem for building, deploying and scaling enterprise AI in production.At its core is Gnani AI's full-stack architecture spanning Evon, Timbre, Prisma and Warp - its family of domain-specialized language and speech models; Plexus, its agentic and conversation AI platform; and enterprise applications. Ascent connects that stack with consulting and knowledge firms, global systems integrators, cloud and infrastructure providers, CCaaS/CPaaS platforms, technology companies, OEM & silicon partners, and go-to-market partners. IAN Angel Fund, the evergreen fund of IAN Group, has led a 5 crore funding round in IndigoTex, India's first waterless wool finishing technology startup commercializing wool and wool blended denim and other fabrics, with participation from SIDBI, FITT, and IIT Delhi Angels. The latest funding will be deployed towards manufacturing and factory setup, expansion of the sales and operations team, commercialization of IndiWoolTM Denim and washable wool/poly-wool fabrics, further R&D and product development, certifications required for domestic & international markets as well as build for scale.Beyond wool denim, IndigoTex is developing ECOTEXTM Wool, a technology that enables washable wool and poly/wool fabrics, addressing the conventional dependence on dry cleaning for wool garments, finishing setup at its manufacturing facility in Rai Industrial Area, Sonipat, Haryana.The facility will help scale-up of its waterless wool finishing technology and commercial production of washable wool and poly/wool fabrics. While its R&D operations will continue to be based at the Research and Innovation Park at IIT Delhi.Founded in 2024 by Satendra Singh, Prof. B.S. Butola, and Dilip Singh (Co-founders), IndigoTex is building a deep-tech foundation for textile manufacturing in India, with a focus on export-oriented, high-value textile products and technologies. Razorpay Partners With OpenAI to Expand ChatGPT Ads in India Gnani AI Launches Ascent to Scale Sovereign AI Across Enterprises IAN Angel Fund Backs IIT Delhi Deep-Tech Startup IndigoTex
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