All 14 Science & Technology updates published in February 2026, grouped into 6 subtopics. Each one carries the exam-relevant facts and its GK Bytes; open an update for the complete note with static GK.
Gnani.ai unveiled a 5-billion-parameter voice-to-voice foundational model, 'Inya VoiceOS', for natural spoken interaction across Indian languages, launched at the AI Impact Summit.
The Amaravati Quantum Valley was inaugurated at Uddandarayunipalem, Andhra Pradesh, with IBM, TCS and L&T as partners. It is anchored by an IBM Quantum System Two, described as India's largest quantum computer to date.
Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda launched SAHI (Safe and Accountable Healthcare AI) and BODH, a health-AI benchmarking platform developed by IIT Kanpur and the National Health Authority.
At the Summit, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced 20,000 additional GPUs for the national AI compute pool under the IndiaAI Mission (sanctioned outlay Rs 10,371.92 crore).
Sarvam AI open-sourced two foundation models under the IndiaAI Mission - Sarvam 30B (32-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts) and Sarvam 105B (106-billion-parameter) - trained on Indian compute and optimised for 22 Indian languages.
The Government launched a nationwide HPV vaccination programme for cervical-cancer prevention, offering the vaccine free at government facilities to about 1.15 crore girls aged 14 across all States/UTs.
Telangana CM A. Revanth Reddy inaugurated the 23rd BioAsia 2026, Asia's premier life-sciences forum, at the HITEX Exhibition Centre, Hyderabad.
India released a national Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) roadmap to protect critical infrastructure and digital assets against future quantum-computing threats.
PM Modi inaugurated Micron Technology's semiconductor Assembly, Test and Packaging facility at Sanand, Gujarat - India's first operational semiconductor facility - which handed over its first shipment of made-in-India memory modules to Dell.
The foundation stone was laid for a Rs 3,700 crore semiconductor unit, 'India Chip Private Ltd' - a Foxconn (Taiwan)-HCL Group joint venture - at Jewar, Uttar Pradesh.
The Budget announced the launch of India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 to strengthen domestic chip manufacturing and supply chains, building on ISM 1.0.
Around the AI Impact Summit, India set a Guinness World Record for the most pledges received for an AI-responsibility campaign in 24 hours, with over 2.5 lakh validated pledges.
Observed on 28 February with the theme 'Women in Science: Catalysing Viksit Bharat', commemorating C.V. Raman's discovery of the Raman Effect in 1928.
Observed on 4 February under the multi-year (2025-2027) theme 'United by Unique', centring people and their stories in cancer care.