Project VeerAI: India Puts Rs 130 Crore Behind a Secure AI-Vision Chip - A De-Risking Deal, Not a Product

The Technology Development Board under DST has signed a Rs 130 crore agreement with Bengaluru's BigEndian Semiconductors for Project VeerAI, a Rs 260 crore camera-focused AI vision system-on-chip meant to move from TRL-5 to TRL-9. The first market is secure CCTV and surveillance. It is development funding, not production, and the process node and timeline were not disclosed.