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Source: Live Mint As India has largest amount of data and largest IT services industry in the world, the country can do to artificial intelligence (AI) what China did to manufacturing, said Ola founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Bhavish Aggarwal on Sunday. In a post on social media platform X (formerly twitter), Bhavish Aggarwal…
Source: Live Mint In an interview on the sidelines of the Google I/O Connect held in Bengaluru on Wednesday, Ajjarapu reasoned that with its largest mobile-first population, micro-payment and digital payment models, a booming startup and developer ecosystem, and diverse language landscape, “India is uniquely positioned to drive the next generation of AI innovation.” In…
Source: Live Mint ANYONE CAN spot a tipping point after it’s been crossed. Also known as critical transitions, such mathematical cliff-edges influence everything from the behaviour of financial markets and the spread of disease to the extinction of species. The financial crisis of 2007-09 is often described as one. So is the moment that covid-19…
Source: Live Mint Sam Altman led AI startup OpenAI has announced GPT-4o, the company’s most cost effective model to date. The model is being seen as an attempt by OpenAI to stay relevant with increasing competition from more deep pocketed rivals like Google and Meta. GPT-4o Mini (O stands for Omni), will replace GPT-3.5 Turbo…
Source: Live Mint After months of rumours, Sam Altman’s startup OpenAI has finally unveiled a search engine competitor to Google called SearchGPT. The new feature is currently in ‘prototype’ stage and is only available via a waiting list, but is expected to be rolled out to all users in the future. In a blogpost about…
Source: Live Mint In a stunning display of mathematical prowess, Google’s AI systems, AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2, have achieved silver medal-level performance at the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad (via India Today). AlphaProof, a groundbreaking AI system introduced by Google, excels in formal mathematical reasoning, reported the publication. Utilizing a blend of language models and the…
Source: Live Mint Since AI’s most popular offering, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, debuted two years back and made esoteric AI tech accessible to the masses, there has been excitement over intelligent machines taking over mundane tasks or assisting humans in complex work. Geeks declared that costs would drop and productivity skyrocket, eventually leading to ‘artificial general intelligence’,…
Source: Live Mint While this is the obvious part, beneath the surface, the bigger fight is also about controlling all streams of user data, including those from search engines and social media, which can help big tech companies such as Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI build the world’s most powerful artificial…
Source: Live Mint Mr Pichai is not alone. New Street Research, a firm of analysts, estimates that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft will together splurge $104bn on building AI data centres this year. Add in spending by smaller tech firms and other industries and the total AI data-centre binge between 2023 and 2027 could reach…
Source: Live Mint PWC, a professional-services firm, reckons that AI could add almost $16trn to global economic output by around 2030 (compared with 2017). McKinsey, a consulting firm, separately arrived at a similar figure, but now reckons this could rise by another 15-40% because of newer forms of AI such as large language models. Yet…
