Business EconomyPosted at: Feb 16 2026 10:59PM


Five Indian startups highlight AI-powered gaming at India AI Impact Summit

New Delhi, Feb 16 (UNI) Indian AI and gaming startups grabbed the spotlight at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, with five companies showcasing innovations powered by artificial intelligence.
Five pioneering Indian startups- Yesgnome, Metasports (Hitwicket), Koyozo, Youth Buzz (Ourcadium), and Evivve - showcased cutting-edge AI-powered solutions, highlighting India’s growing leadership at the intersection of AI, gaming, immersive media and enterprise transformation.
Yesgnome showcased Sketly AI, its AI-powered art creation platform designed for game studios and creative teams. The platform enables rapid generation of production-ready assets, including character designs, environments, UI elements, storyboards and animation components. A proprietary style-training system allows studios to maintain visual consistency across large-scale productions.
Metasports presented Hitwicket, its competitive multiplayer cricket game with more than 18 million users worldwide. At the summit, the company demonstrated its Generative AI-powered real-time commentary engine, which analyses live gameplay, generates contextual narration, and converts it into expressive voice output to enhance immersion and personalisation.
Koyozo demonstrated its integrated handheld mobile gaming ecosystem aimed at transforming smartphones into console-grade gaming devices. Its flagship hardware, Koyozo One, features hall-effect joysticks and triggers, Type-C and Bluetooth connectivity, haptic feedback, modular accessory support, and pass-through charging.
The ecosystem is supported by Koyozo Club, an intelligent platform layer offering button mapping, game discovery, remote play integration, and performance insights.
Youth Buzz, through its immersive platform Ourcadium, introduced “Man vs. GPT”, an interactive showcase exploring human-AI competition. The experience features AI-powered opponents capable of learning and adapting across rounds using behavioural patterning and real-time decision systems, translating complex AI concepts into an audience-friendly format.
Evivve, a global behavioural intelligence and organisational transformation lab, debuted its Enterprise Cognitive AI Readiness Tool. Built on its neuroscience-based AFERR Model, the tool evaluates leadership and organisational preparedness for AI adoption. Evivve also presented its “State of Cognition: India AI Snapshot 2026” at the summit.
Further, a special panel discussion titled “The New Gold Rush: Investing in India’s AI-Powered Gaming Future”, curated in collaboration with the Game Developers Association of India, convened global investors and industry leaders.
The session examined investment trends, AI-enabled production models, skilling initiatives, and policy frameworks shaping India’s AI gaming ecosystem. UNI VK SAS SSP
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