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Source: Live Mint Wall Street stocks declined sharply on Monday, as the surging popularity of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model sparked a selloff in chip giant Nvidia and other Big Tech companies. Nvidia stock crashed over 17 per cent. Among the Big Tech stocks, Microsoft, Meta Platforms and Google-parent Alphabet lost between 2.2 per…
Source: Live Mint DeepSeek’s AI model surpasses ChatGPT downloads on Apple’s app store Leveraged ETFs with Nvidia exposure experience significant losses and volatility Market adjusts to AI competition, impacting institutional and retail investors Investors had been sellers of leveraged Nvidia ETFs prior to Monday Jan 27 (Reuters) – Prices of exchange-traded funds with outsize exposure…
Source: Live Mint In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence, a new player has emerged that is sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley and beyond. DeepSeek, a Chinese startup founded just over a year ago, has developed an AI model that is offering startlingly comparable performance to industry giants like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, but…
Source: Live Mint What exactly is DeepSeek? DeepSeek is a Chinese startup founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, the chief of AI-driven quant hedge fund High-Flyer. The company develops open-source AI models, and its eponymous mobile app surged to the top of the iPhone’s download charts in the US after its release in early January….
Source: Live Mint Mr Trump’s hosting the next day of the launch of “the largest AI infrastructure project in history” shows he grasps the potential. But so does the rest of the world—and most of all, China. Even as Mr Trump was giving his inaugural oration, a Chinese firm released the latest impressive large language…
Source: Live Mint IT-major Wipro Limited’s Executive Chairman Rishad Premji in an interview with the news portal NDTV at Davos 2025, highlighted how he is leveraging artificial intelligence to reskill the employees to be relevant in the world of automation. “Skilling is important to be able to have talent that’s AI-ready, to be able to…
Source: Live Mint WHEN SAM ALTMAN, boss of OpenAI, posted a gnomic tweet this month saying “There is no wall,” his followers on X, a social-media site, had a blast. “Trump will build it,” said one. “No paywall for ChatGPT?” quipped another. It has since morphed from an in-joke among nerds into a serious business…
Source: Live Mint Jan 23 (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. Whatever doubts investors may have surrounding the longer-term economic damage of U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed tariff agenda, they are giving his deregulation, tech-friendly and AI-supportive policies a huge thumbs up. Stocks are flying. With strong earnings from streaming…
Source: Live Mint What is the Stargate Project? Announced on Tuesday, it is a new company that intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years to build new artificial intelligence (AI)-focused data centres across the US. The joint venture among OpenAI, Oracle Corp., SoftBank Group Corp., and MGX, which will begin deploying $100…
Source: Live Mint Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, has recently stepped up his focus on India’s AI ambitions and has now pledged to invest $1 million and 5 hours a week to help the country achieve greatness in AI. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Srinivas wrote, “I am ready to invest a…
