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Source: Live Mint Tencent Holdings Ltd. unveiled an upgraded AI reasoning model, the latest bid by China’s most valuable company to compete for leadership in the country’s crowded artificial intelligence field. The Shenzhen-based company rolled out the latest iteration of Hunyuan T1, which debuted last month in its chatbot app Yuanbao. T1 operates similarly to…
Source: Live Mint Elon Musk’s Grok, an AI assistant developed by his company xAI, has been making headlines with its strikingly candid responses, sparking intense discussions about its unusually human-like political opinions. While some users praise its unfiltered approach, others have raised concerns about abusive responses. The generative artificial intelligence platform’s ability to mimic human-like…
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 The attempt at global harmony ended in cacophony. As Emmanuel Macron’s ai summit drew to a close on February 11th J.D. Vance, America’s vice-president, bluntly set out an America-first vision for artificial intelligence, castigated Europe for being too rule-bound and left before the usual group photograph. eu countries, for their part, struck…
Source: Live Mint China, a closed economy, has already achieved a generative AI breakthrough with DeepSeek’s model. US president Donald Trump is vying to retain America’s dominance in global technology by instituting curbs on AI and high-tech exports. Indian industry stakeholders said an agreement with France can give the country a significant international partner—both as…
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 The dense clouds over DeepSeek are not clearing anytime soon. After bans on government resources in Italy, France, the US Congress, and elsewhere, new research suggests that DeepSeek’s ties to the Chinese state may be deeper than previously thought. Security analysts have reportedly uncovered an obfuscated code within the chatbot’s web login…
Source: Live Mint A LocalCircles survey has revealed that 50% of Internet users in India use AI platforms, with ChatGPT being the most popular. The survey also found that 90% of AI users prefer text mode while only 10% use voice mode. Now, there is a new directive from the Finance Ministry about AI tools…
Source: Live Mint On Saturday, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a fiscal outlay of ₹2,000 crore ($230 million) for the Mission. The move succeeded the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) announcing last Thursday that a repository of 18,693 graphic processing units (GPUs), provided by private sector companies, was ready to be used as…
