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Meesho bets over 40% of IPO money on in-house Al infra
Financial Express Lucknow
|December 02, 2025
STRATEGIC MOVE
E-COMMERCE PLATFORM MEESHO'S proprietary Al engine already drives 74.57% of all orders on its platform to power personalised recommendations, dynamic pricing, and automated cataloging.
Now, the company is betting 1,870 crore — which forms 44% of its 5,421 crore IPO proceeds — towards owning the infrastructure to run this AI, which it thinks will be cheaper than renting it from cloud giants like Amazon Web Services, Azure, or Google Cloud.
This story is from the December 02, 2025 edition of Financial Express Lucknow.
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