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MHA commends Innefu Labs’ AI systems in Ahmedabad Safe City
New Delhi: In a strong vote of confidence for homegrown security tech, the Ministry of Home Affairs has commended Innefu Labs for the performance of its AI platforms deployed under Project Nirbhaya in the Ahmedabad Safe City initiative. The audit team reviewing the programme appreciated how the company’s intelligence tools, innsight and prophecy, are helping law enforcement sharpen situational awareness and respond faster to emerging threats.
During the evaluation, Innefu’s Gujarat team showcased how both platforms knit together a wide range of police functions on a single screen. The committee noted that the systems provide valuable support for public safety work, particularly through their real time monitoring of social media and open sources. By spotting threat patterns, tracking behaviour cues and enabling early action, auditors felt the technology could add value to policing in more cities.
The endorsement underscores Innefu’s push to build scalable and future ready tools aligned with India’s evolving security needs. Since deployment, the platforms have been drawing on authorised data from eight major government and policing systems, including CCTNS, Dial 112 and Vaahan. By correlating structured and unstructured intelligence streams, the system has helped officers identify vulnerable zones, predict crime trends and flag repeat offenders with improved accuracy.
Prophecy Alethia, Innefu’s predictive policing engine, brings together crime patterns, resource planning insights and real time alerts across districts. Innsight, its Osint suite, turns volumes of data from the surface web, deep web and dark web into actionable intelligence, helping agencies trace high value targets and anticipate risks across multiple languages and platforms.
Innefu Labs co-founder and CEO Tarun Wig, said the recognition validates the company’s mission to design technology that delivers both innovation and real world impact. He noted that the tools were created to give law enforcement the intelligence edge needed to build safer and smarter cities.
With the Central Audit Team and senior police officials offering strong praise, Innefu Labs marks an important step forward in its efforts to support intelligence driven policing across India.
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India leads global adoption of ChatGPT Images 2.0 in first week
From anime avatars to fantasy covers, users turn AI visuals into culture
NEW DELHI: India has emerged as the largest user base for ChatGPT Images 2.0, just a week after its launch by OpenAI, underlining the country’s growing influence on global internet trends.
While the tool was introduced as an advanced image-generation upgrade within ChatGPT, Indian users are quickly reshaping its purpose. Instead of sticking to productivity-led use cases, many are embracing it as a creative playground for self-expression, storytelling and online identity.
From anime-style portraits and cinematic headshots to tarot-inspired visuals and fictional newspaper front pages, the model is being used to create highly stylised, shareable content. Features such as accurate text rendering, multilingual prompts and the ability to generate detailed visuals with minimal input have helped drive rapid adoption.
What sets the latest model apart is its ability to “think” through prompts, generating multiple outputs and adapting to context, including real-time web inputs. But the bigger story lies in how users are engaging with it.
In India, trends are already taking shape. Popular formats include dramatic studio-style lighting edits, LinkedIn-ready headshots, manga-inspired avatars, soft pastel “spring” aesthetics, AI-led fashion moodboards, paparazzi-style visuals and fantasy newspaper covers. Users are also restoring old photographs, creating tarot-style imagery and experimenting with futuristic design concepts.
Local flavour is adding another layer. Prompts such as cinematic portrait collages and Y2K-inspired romantic edits are gaining traction, blending global aesthetics with distinctly Indian internet culture.
The surge reflects a broader shift in how AI tools are being used in the country, moving beyond utility to creativity. As younger users, creators and social media enthusiasts experiment with new visual formats, AI-generated imagery is increasingly becoming part of everyday digital expression.
If early trends hold, ChatGPT Images 2.0 may not just be a tech upgrade but a cultural moment, giving millions a new visual language to play with online.
