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Source: Live Mint Grok 3 launch LIVE Updates: Elon Musk’s xAI is all set to release Grok 3 chatbot today. Elon Musk has described Grok 3 as the “smartest AI on Earth.” The live demo of Grok 3 is expected to be held at 10.00 am IST on Tuesday, February 18. The Grok AI chatbot…
Source: Live Mint I’m sure you’ve been looking at the announcements that India has made on its AI program. You were here sometime back and you made these comments—about how India was better off not trying to do its own frontier model—that became controversial. Has your view changed? And do you think the Indian AI…
Source: Live Mint South Korea’s industry ministry has become the latest government to restrict access to the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, citing security concerns. The ministry issued a temporary ban on employee access to the AI service, urging ministries and agencies to exercise caution when using generative AI technologies like DeepSeek and ChatGPT. This…
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 Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has challenged the dominance of top AI companies with its latest large language models, which offer similar performance to the latest offerings from Meta or OpenAI, but at a fraction of the cost. DeepSeek’s free app has also taken over ChatGPT on Apple’s App Store in several regions…
Source: Live Mint Fresh virus fears rode on other weak signals to send the markets tumbling on Monday, wiping out ₹11 trillion of investor wealth in a day. Benchmarks BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty crashed more than 1.5% each, and fear gauge Vix rose the most in four months. News of two cases of the…
Source: Live Mint Market Outlook: The emerging markets (EM) posted decent returns for 2024, with most regional stock markets up for the year. The MSCI’s gauge for the emerging market stocks is set to end the year 5% higher, suggested a Reuters report, with Singapore set for a 17% annual rise, its best since 2017…
Source: Live Mint India’s initial public offering (IPO) market reached a “historic milestone” as it doubled proceeds from $5.5 billion in 2023 to $11.2 billion in 2024, as per the Global Data report. Further, Company Profiles Analyst Murthy Grandhi, promises “even bigger fireworks” in 2025, according to an ANI report. “India’s IPO market hit a…
Source: Live Mint Investors are accustomed to volatility in the semiconductor industry. But recent ups and downs have been especially discombobulating. On October 15th ASML, a supplier of chipmaking gear, reported that orders during its most recent quarter were only half what analysts had expected, causing its shares to plunge. Two days later TSMC, the…
Source: Live Mint Not long ago gold seemed to have lost its lustre. In the decades after President Richard Nixon abandoned the gold standard in 1971, the yellow metal fell out of favour with central banks, which hoarded their reserves in dollars instead. In the 1980s and 1990s investors and households grew weary of its…
