{"id":1023871,"date":"2026-07-27T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023871"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:17:10","slug":"free-ai-pilot-pain-eases-for-startups-but-scale-challenge-stalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/27\/free-ai-pilot-pain-eases-for-startups-but-scale-challenge-stalks\/","title":{"rendered":"Free AI pilot pain eases for startups, but scale challenge stalks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Amid the rapidly expanding universe of business-to-business (B2B) artificial intelligence (AI) startups, enterprises are now increasingly willing to pay for projects rather than seek free pilots\u2014a sign of the market&#8217;s growing confidence and maturity. However, most startups are yet to secure the large, multi-year contracts needed to scale, setting the stage for consolidation in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>As per data platform Tracxn, the total number of AI native startups in India rose from 182 in 2022 to 465 in 2025 and 246 now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Amid the rapidly expanding universe of business-to-business (B2B) artificial intelligence (AI) startups, enterprises are now increasingly willing to pay for projects rather than seek free pilots\u2014a sign of the market&#8217;s growing confidence and maturity. However, most startups are yet to secure the large, multi-year contracts needed to scale, setting the stage for consolidation in the sector. As per data platform Tracxn, the total number of AI native startups in India rose from 182 in 2022 to 465 in 2025 and 246 now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023872,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023871\/revisions\/1023872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}