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India AI backs 5 projects for safe AI

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October 08, 2025

The governmenton Tuesday announced the selection of five projects under the second round of its expression of interest forthe ‘Safe and Trusted AT pillarunderthe programme launched by IndiaAL

The selected projects will advance real-time deepfake detection, strengthen forensic analysis, address bias in AI models, and build robust evaluation tools for generative AI, ensuring that AI systems deployed in India are reliable, secure, and inclusive, according to an official statement.

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