Startups

Three young Romanian entrepreneurs realized that there was a great need for an affordable and easy-to-use app for small businesses that need to declare waste, so in mid-2023 they developed and launched the Waste Registry app, which now helps more than 1,100 businesses track their waste.

Google has introduced a new artificial intelligence model – Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. The developers call it the fastest and most cost-effective model in the Gemini lineup, focused on tasks with a large number of requests.

OpenAI is developing its own platform for storing and managing source code, which could become a direct competitor to GitHub, the largest service for developers owned by Microsoft.

Fagura, a crowdfunding platform based in the Republic of Moldova, has attracted investors from the Bravva Angels business angel community in a €1.5 million convertible funding round raised over the past year, according to a Bravva Angels press release.

Various specialized studies estimate that up to 30-40% of students and high school students in developed countries have used artificial intelligence at least once in preparing assignments, according to Logos Press.

A group of Moldovan startups after seven months of preparation has already managed to attract investments and grants totaling $2.4 million. The rest are at the stage of full readiness for financing, Logos Press reports.

Indian authorities are aiming for the country to become one of the top three global powers in the use and creation of artificial intelligence technology, according to Logos Press.

The Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization has unveiled a new strategic vision for supporting the entrepreneurial environment for 2026. It envisages a reduction in grants and an increase in other forms of funding, Logos Press reports.

Government support and procurement for sectors such as chips, automobiles, chemicals and quantum technologies will be limited to products made in the European Union, Logos Press reported.

Artificial intelligence has finally ceased to be a game of only the United States and Europe. On February 16, 2026, India AI Impact Summit 2026 – the largest forum on artificial intelligence, which is already being called a historic turn in global technology policy – kicked off in the Indian capital of New Delhi, Logos Press reports.

It is very difficult for small and small enterprises, especially newcomers from the regions, to break through not only on the external, but also on the internal market – there are no centralized instruments for this in Moldova.