New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- Amazon Web Services (AWS) has named 40 early-stage companies to its 2025 Generative AI Accelerator (GAIA) - an eight-week hybrid program that pairs startups building foundational generative AI technologies with technical and business mentors, access to AWS tooling, and up to $1 million in AWS credits to scale.

This year's selection reflects AWS's focus on foundational models, agentic workflows, and infrastructure tooling that underpin enterprise AI - areas that are seeing rapid technical progress and strong customer demand. The program is positioned to help startups move beyond pilots to production by improving ML performance, optimising stacks, and sharpening go-to-market playbooks.

"The pace of generative AI innov...