The Tech Panda takes a look at recent launches in the superfast field of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Agentic AI: Best-in-Class Metrics with Native Prometheus Support & Agentic Investigation Experiences
Elastic, the Search AI Company, announced new capabilities. With native Prometheus and PromQL support, out-of-the-box Kubernetes investigation workflows, and automated migration from Datadog and Grafana, Elastic now delivers a unified platform for metrics and logs. Built on Elasticsearch’s columnar metrics engine, the platform can query metrics up to 30x faster than Prometheus and store data up to 2.5x more efficiently, without cardinality limits or custom metric penalties.
“Elastic was already the platform many SREs trusted for logs at scale. Now we’re bringing that same impressive scale, performance, and operational simplicity to metrics, delivering up to 30x faster metric queries than Prometheus, native Prometheus compatibility, and a more predictable cost model for high-cardinality metrics,” said Baha Azarmi, general manager, Observability at Elastic. “With a single backend for every signal, a single query language, and investigations that start before anyone is paged, SREs get complete context at the moment they need it most — without the bills that have forced teams to compromise on the data they keep.”
FEATURES
- Native PromQL and Prometheus Remote Write: PromQL queries run natively in Kibana and Prometheus metrics arrive via Remote Write, so existing dashboards, alert rules, and scrape configs work without modification.
- Out-of-the-box Kubernetes workflows and content: SREs now go straight from an alert to the root cause through out-of-the-box agentic workflows, alert templates, ML anomaly detection jobs, and pre-built dashboards that activate at ingest for Kubernetes. SRE teams do not need to configure infrastructure from scratch before they get value.
- Agentic investigations: When an alert fires, Elastic correlates metrics, logs, and traces that already share a single backend, using workflows with ML anomaly detection to surface what changed and how severe the deviation is before anyone is paged. The Observability MCP App and agent skills bring the same investigation capabilities to Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP-compatible tool.
- Automated migration from Datadog and Grafana: The Observability Migration Platform converts dashboards, alert rules, and PromQL queries into Kibana equivalents automatically, so teams move what they’ve already built rather than rebuilding it.
Smart Parking: Kolkata-Based Mobility Technology Startup Launches AI & IoT Powered Platform to Decongest Cities Across the World
Parkobot, a Kolkata-based mobility technology startup, launched its integrated smart parking platform that combines proprietary IoT hardware, intelligent cloud software and a consumer mobile application built specifically for the realities of Indian cities.
Amrit Choudhury, Founder and CEO, Parkobot, said: “India’s urban centres are witnessing a growing mismatch between rising vehicle ownership and the availability of organised parking. Millions of parking spaces remain underutilised even as vehicle owners struggle to find convenient parking.
“At the same time, offices, malls and commercial establishments possess valuable parking assets that often remain vacant for extended periods and generate little or no revenue. Parkobot bridges this gap by transforming underutilised spaces into smart, revenue-generating assets through a technology-driven platform integrating parking, digital payments, reservations and access management.
“Our launch in Kolkata marks the beginning of a larger vision to create a networked parking infrastructure that enables users to seamlessly discover, pre-reserve and pay for parking spots, while allowing property owners to unlock value from their unused real estate assets.”
FEATURES
Combines proprietary IoT hardware with an intelligent mobile platform designed specifically for Indian parking realities.
Through the Parkobot app, users can pre-book and reserve private parking spaces, equipped with proprietary IoT-enabled parking locks that ensure access only to authorised users.
With introductory pricing of parking at INR10 per hour* Parkobot aims to make parking significantly more affordable.*( on a subscription pack of INR 2999/-p.m. which gives 300 hrs of parking p.m.)
Beyond Kolkata, the company will soon be onboarding 30,000 parking spaces across five major metropolitan cities as part of its expansion strategy.
Agentic Studio: A Sovereign, Secure Execution Environment for AI Agents
NeevCloud, an Indian sovereign AI cloud infrastructure company launched Agentic Studio. This is a managed secure sandbox environment purpose-built for running AI agents and code execution workloads in isolated, on-demand compute environments. Agentic Studio enables organisations to deploy, test, and scale AI-driven workflows without exposing production systems, a capability that takes on strategic significance as enterprises across India and emerging markets accelerate their AI adoption under the imperative of digital and data sovereignty.
“Sovereign AI is not just about where data is stored, it is about where intelligence acts,” said Narendra Sen, Founder & CEO of NeevCloud. “Agentic Studio ensures that when an AI agent retrieves a document, executes a financial reconciliation, or automates a customer support workflow, every action happens within a controlled, auditable environment on Indian soil. That is what enterprise-grade sovereign AI looks like in practice.”
FEATURES
Platform Capabilities
- Agentic Studio provides a comprehensive execution framework for AI workloads:
- Isolated sandbox environments that run untrusted or agent-generated code without contaminating other systems
- Filesystem snapshots, pause, restore, and fork capabilities for reproducible, stateful workflows
- Multi-agent orchestration by assigning separate compute environments to planning, execution, validation, and reporting agents
- Browser and VNC templates for web automation and browser-based task agents
- On-demand compute with no infrastructure management, enabling teams to focus on building rather than provisioning
Targeted use cases
- Customer support automation: agents can retrieve knowledge, analyze customer queries, and draft responses in isolated environments.
- Coding workflows: run tests, inspect repositories, automate bug triage, and validate code changes safely.
- Financial operations: process spreadsheets, reconcile reports, and run controlled data workflows without exposing core systems.
- Document-intensive industries: extract information from contracts, invoices, claims, and reports.
- Research and data operations: collect, structure, and analyze information across multiple sources.
- Education and developer platforms: run user-submitted code for assessments, sandboxes, and interactive coding tools.
- Multi-agent orchestration: assign planning, execution, validation, and reporting steps to separate sandboxes.
- DevOps and IT automation: execute repeatable operational workflows, validation checks, and scripted tasks in isolated environments.
HR Tech: AI-Powered Strategic Command Center for Boards & CXOs
ZingHR, a global AI-powered Human Capital Management platform launched GHROWTH.ai, an AI-powered Strategic Command Center designed to help organizations bridge one of the most persistent challenges in business: transforming strategy into execution at scale.
Prasad Rajappan, Founder and CEO, said, “The next competitive advantage is not just more data. It is better decisions, orchestrated across functions, made faster, intelligent, and actionable using AI.GHROWTH.ai helps Boards and CXOs connect strategy to execution, align the enterprise around what matters most, and turn intelligence into measurable outcomes.”
FEATURES
- THINKS: Continuously interprets signals across the enterprise to surface critical insights, identify anomalies, and predict emerging risks and opportunities.
- BINDS: Creates a unified operating view across HR, finance, sales, operations, and governance functions, eliminating silos and establishing a single source of organizational truth.
- ACTS: Transforms intelligence into accountability by assigning actions, tracking ownership, and ensuring strategic priorities move beyond discussion into execution.
- DELIVERS: Connects strategy to outcomes, enabling organizations to execute with greater speed, alignment, predictability, and measurable business impact.
Payments: CLI & Builder MCP, AI-Ready Developer Tools for Faster Payment Integrations & Streamlined Operations
PayU, India’s leading diversified fintech platform, today announced the launch of two powerful developer tools designed for modern payment workflows: PayU CLI, a command-line interface designed for payments management and operations and Builder MCP, an AI-native server enabling faster and seamless payment gateway integrations. The tools address two distinct challenges facing modern development teams – integrating payment gateway quickly and managing payment operations efficiently without dashboard dependency.
“AI has fundamentally transformed software development and AI agents have become a more nuanced part of everyday developer workflows. Merchants and their tech teams are now looking for a payment partner that provides lightning-fast product integrations, operational flexibility and enhances developer productivity. Our new CLI and Builder MCP tools solve for each of these requirements by bringing PayU’s payment infrastructure to where developers work – in the terminal. This is just first of our steps in this direction”, said Narendra Babu, CTO, PayU.
FEATURES
- PayU CLI brings payment management and operational workflows to a single command terminal, enabling creation of payment links, query generation, settlement reports, etc. without any dashboard navigation.
- PayU Builder MCP enables developers and AI builders with production-grade code, powering payment gateway integrations in hours instead of days.
