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Ai+ commits Rs 100 crore to smartphone security
Ai+ Smartphone will spend Rs 100 crore over five years on outside security testing for its smartphones, but key program details remain undisclosed.
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Ai+ Smartphone has launched Project Trust+, a five-year security program that will pay for outside scrutiny of its smartphones. The company is inviting ethical hackers, developers, and security researchers to test its devices, identify vulnerabilities, and report problems before they affect users.
According to ITzine, citing Gizmochina, Ai+ has committed Rs 100 crore—about $10.5 million—to the initiative. Funding is planned at Rs 20 crore per year, or approximately $2.3 million, over the program’s five-year term.
The program’s stated structure is:
- Total budget: Rs 100 crore
- Duration: five years
- Annual funding: Rs 20 crore
- Participants: ethical hackers, developers, and security researchers
That puts Project Trust+ closer to a sustained external testing effort than a one-off bug bounty announcement. Researchers will be able to examine the security mechanisms built into Ai+ smartphones and feed their findings back to the company’s product teams. Ai+ says the outside review is intended to complement its own development process and support its broader privacy focus.
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Privacy and NxtQuantum OS
The initiative is also tied to Ai+'s software platform, NxtQuantum OS, although the report does not explain which parts of the operating system or smartphone security stack researchers will be allowed to inspect. The company has not disclosed the reward structure, vulnerability categories, disclosure policy, or when testing will begin.
Applications can be submitted through a link posted on the Instagram account of Ai+ chief Madhav Sheth. The report does not establish whether the program is open to researchers globally or limited to a particular market, which leaves availability for researchers in the US and Europe unclear.
Project Trust+ is a sensible response to the trust problem facing privacy and security claims: independent researchers can test protections that vendor assurances cannot. But the Rs 100 crore headline is not, by itself, evidence of stronger security. Until Ai+ publishes the program’s scope, payouts, and findings—or provides independent evidence of how issues are handled—the initiative is a substantial commitment to scrutiny, not a demonstrated security result.
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