AI Launches: Cybersecurity, Gen AI, Healthtech, Enterprise AI & Voice AI

The Tech Panda takes a look at recent launches in the superfast field of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Cybersecurity: AI Gatekeeper to secure Agentic AI & boost Runtime Protection for Indian Businesses

Silicon Valley headquartered Operant AI, has launched AI Gatekeeper™, a real-time security application for live AI applications, agents and Agentic AI workflows—across Kubernetes, private, hybrid, and edge environments.

“The AI that we are now securing is a completely new beast compared to even two years ago,” said Vrajesh Bhavsar, Operant AI’s CEO and co-founder. He added that  today RAG applications to AI Agents to AI Inference systems operate at a completely new scale, because of which AI can’t be secured in isolation. AI Gatekeeper can bring Operant’s unique defensive capabilities to everywhere customers are deploying AI, alongside critical new capabilities for protecting sensitive data and the rest of the application environment from the new attack surface that is being fueled by rapid Agentic AI adoption.”

Features

• Runtime Defense for AI across Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds: Moving beyond Kubernetes, Operant’s 3D Runtime Protection is now available across public, private and hybrid cloud platforms. Live comprehensive catalogs of all AI workloads, AI agents, tools, models, and all AI platforms that automatically update with the use of AI in an organization (includes providers such as OpenAI, Deepseek, Cohere, Anthropic, Hugging Face and more).
• Additional support for large data platforms, LLM and AI Agent platforms: Defense analytics on all deployed AI defenses, providing unprecedented transparency into the threats that are being blocked at runtime.
• Cross-Platform Threat Modeling: Cohesive AI Security Graphs mapping and flagging highest risk data flows between AI workloads, Agents, and AI APIs across all platforms on which they operate. Out of the box mappings to OWASP Top 10 threat vectors for AI/LLMs and AI Agents, including sensitive data leakage, API key and secrets leakage, prompt injection, and data poisoning risks – with deep insights into actual threats and the workloads/APIs that are affected.
• Advanced Threat Detection for AI Agents: Supply chain risks for AI agents, with mapping of trust scores and boundaries. Unauthenticated and unauthorized AI agent detection and defense with blocking capabilities. Least privilege runtime execution and least permissioned trust boundaries for AI agents.
• Protection for MCP and AI NHIs: Beyond AI API security, AI Gatekeeper also includes supports for Model Context Protocol. Detection and defense for both runtime and API access layers of agent tools built with MCP. Expanded coverage for identity and access controls with support for AI NHIs

Gen AI: AI Models for Text-to-Image, Text-to-Video & Image-to-Video Generation

Appy Pie is stepping into the frontier of generative AI with the launch of two proprietary models: PixelForge, an advanced AI image generation model, and Vibeo, a multimodal AI video generation model capable of producing videos from both text and image inputs. Building on the success of its previous model, Flawless Text, Appy Pie is now delivering powerful visual storytelling capabilities directly into the hands of creators, marketers, and businesses—no design or technical expertise needed.

“With PixelForge and Vibeo, we’re bringing enterprise-grade generative AI to everyday creators. Our mission is to make visual and video content creation as simple as writing a sentence—no need for cameras, design skills, or editing software. This is the biggest leap yet in visual AI for Appy Pie. We are now unlocking limitless creative potential for individuals, startups, and enterprises alike.” said Abhinav Girdhar, CEO of Appy Pie.

Features

PixelForge

• A text-to-image model that generates high-resolution, photorealistic, or artistic visuals from simple prompts.
• Whether for branding, ad creatives, product design, or concept art, it turns ideas into pixel-perfect images in seconds.
• Built to rival DALL·E and Stable Diffusion

Vibeo

• Multimodal text-to-video and image-to-video generation model.
• Designed for speed, quality, and cinematic coherence, it empowers users to produce high-quality videos simply by typing a prompt or uploading an image.

Healthtech: India’s First AI Agent Platform to Transform Patient Care & Streamline Hospital Ecosystem

Tulu Health, a healthtech and fintech startup founded by experts from AIIMS, IIT, and Stanford University, launched India’s first AI Agent Platform to become the one-stop solution for all healthcare needs. Tailored for Hospitals, Built for Patients!” Backed by clinical insight and cutting-edge AI technologies, Tulu Health’s new platform provides modular AI agents tailored for both healthcare providers and patients—delivered seamlessly through widely used platforms like WhatsApp and hospital websites. With the launch of its AI Agent Platform, Tulu Health aims to transform healthcare for over 10 million patients in the next three years by harnessing the power of AI to drive better health outcomes.

Dr. Adil, Founder of Tulu Health, with a decade of experience working at AIIMS Delhi, GTB Hospital and Health-tech companies, said, “We built Tulu to meet patients where they are—on WhatsApp, in their language, with zero friction. This isn’t just a tool; it’s a transformation in how India experiences healthcare. We have envisioned Tulu as a response to persistent challenges that patients and hospitals face: lack of transparency, poor care continuity, high out-of-pocket expenses, and limited post-discharge follow-up and clinical support.”

Features

• A transformative suite of AI-driven solutions that simplify, personalize, and automate the entire healthcare journey from initial consultation to post-hospitalization support.
• Designed to integrate directly with WhatsApp and hospital websites, it eliminates the friction traditionally associated with digital health services.
• Patients no longer need to download or learn new applications. Instead, they receive AI-guided assistance in familiar environments, available in multiple languages and optimized for mobile use.
• This inclusive approach ensures that even those with low digital literacy can access personalized care and financial support instantly and intuitively.

Enterprise AI: An Integrated AgentOps Platform to Industrialize the Enterprise Agentic AI Lifecycle

Covasant Technologies, an company in enterprise Agentic AI solutions, launched the Covasant Agent Management Suite (CAMS). As organizations transition from experimental AI pilots to fully autonomous digital workforces, CAMS provides the critical end-to-end lifecycle governance and operational control needed to manage Agentic AI at scale.

Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO and Executive Director, Covasant Technologies, said, “Enterprises are excited about what Agentic AI can achieve, but they are rightfully cautious about the operational reality of governing them at scale. An AI agent is a mission-critical digital asset that demands continuous lifecycle governance. How do you ensure AI agents remain secure, compliant with regulations like the EU AI Act, the CCPA, and other regulations across the world, and effective throughout their entire existence? We built the Covasant Agent Management Suite to provide that essential, hyperscaler-agnostic framework to help enterprises aggressively scale their AI workforce, knowing that they have end-to-end control from the first design prompt to the final decommissioning.”

Features

• AI Strategy Compass: A strategic diagnostic layer that maps existing business processes to AI opportunities. It identifies high-value use cases and captures the “tribal knowledge,” the unwritten rules of how a business actually operates. to seed context for the entire development journey.
• Agent Eval Bench: A rigorous validation environment that uses captured tribal knowledge to create comprehensive, real-world test scenarios. It ensures agents adhere to specific business rules and detects hallucinations or prompt injection vulnerabilities before production.
• Agent Context Core: A foundational layer dedicated to synthesizing tribal knowledge from across the enterprise (Slack, Teams, and emails), grounding agents in actual organizational history and nuances.
• Intelligent Meta RAG: A next-generation retrieval engine that dynamically routes queries across Vector Stores, Knowledge Graphs, and SQL databases, providing multi-hop reasoning and explainable AI responses grounded in enterprise data profiles.
• Agentic Workflow Builder: A canvas designed to help non-technical business owners assemble cross-functional agent workstreams that automate complex end-to-end processes automatically.

Voice AI: Zero Codeswitch foundation model to Understand How 1.4 B Indians Actually Speak

Shunya Labs, a research-driven voice AI company, launched Zero Codeswitch, a speech recognition foundation model designed to understand naturally code-mixed and multilingual Indian speech.

Ritu Mehrotra, CEO and Co-Founder of Shunya Labs, said, “Shunya Labs was built with a focus on deep research rather than short-term marketing narratives. With Zero Codeswitch, we are building foundational technology for Indian languages that prioritizes accuracy, latency, and real-world usability. Our goal is not just to adopt AI, but to build it at the foundation level in India.”

Features

• Engineered to run efficiently on standard CPUs, reducing deployment costs by up to 20x while maintaining sub-100ms latency for real-time applications.
• Designed to process mixed-language speech natively, without relying on intermediate translation layers that convert Indian languages into English.
• Uses a unified architecture capable of generating mixed Hindi and English tokens, allowing it to accurately transcribe natural phrases such as “Mujhe account balance dekhna hai.”
• Trained on millions of hours of real-world Indian audio, capturing variations in accent, dialect, pronunciation, slang, and transliteration.
• Optimized for Hinglish and code-mixed speech while being part of a broader Shunya Labs platform that supports more than 200 languages, including over 40 Indian languages.