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Source: Live Mint Call it a modern-day version of a spectacular Renaissance patronage. Since 2019 Microsoft has provided more than $13bn in cash and computing capacity to OpenAI , a once-penniless startup that is now at the forefront of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and, as of its most recent fundraising round, worth $157bn. In exchange,…
Source: Live Mint In a groundbreaking initiative, Microsoft and OpenAI, in collaboration with the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, have launched the AI Collaborative and Fellowship programme to help newsrooms adopt artificial intelligence (AI). Announced on Tuesday, the programme will see more than $10 million (approximately £8.3 million) provided in both direct funding and enterprise software…
Source: Live Mint NEW DELHI : Since the 1990s, Photoshop, an image-editing software, has become a colloquial verb for photo retouching. However, over the past two years, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the way photo editing has worked so far, automating most of the steps into one-click commands. This, though, hasn’t affected Photoshop’s ubiquity—in…
Source: Live Mint Microsoft Corp. Inc. wants to partner with the Indian government and other stakeholders as co-pilots to accelerate AI adoption, said Sundar Srinivasan, vice-president of AI & search, Microsoft India Development Centre, during a panel discussion at the Mint India@2047 Summit on Friday. “India has a unique asset in terms of, I…
Source: Live Mint Large language models have a keen appetite for electricity. The energy used to train OpenAI’s GPT-4 model could have powered 50 American homes for a century. And as models get bigger, costs rise rapidly. By one estimate, today’s biggest models cost $100m to train; the next generation could cost $1bn, and the…
Source: Live Mint Large language models have a keen appetite for electricity. The energy used to train OpenAI’s gpt-4 model could have powered 50 American homes for a century. And as models get bigger, costs rise rapidly. By one estimate, today’s biggest models cost $100m to train; the next generation could cost $1bn, and the…
Source: Live Mint Microsoft Corp. announced a 10 per cent increase in its quarterly dividend and introduced a new $60 billion stock buyback program, matching the scale of its repurchase plan from three years ago. The company’s shares rose by up to 2.4 per cent following the news. In a statement late Monday, the tech…
Source: Live Mint (Reuters) -AI heavyweight OpenAI is in talks to raise funds at a valuation of $150 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, a move that would fortify its status as one of the biggest startups in the world. The maker of viral chatbot ChatGPT is discussing raising $6.5 billion from investors, the report…
Source: Business Standard Microsoft, Microsoft logo(Photo: Shutterstock) 3 min read Last Updated : Sep 11 2024 | 3:08 PM IST Global tech giant Microsoft has invested Rs. 519.72 crore in Pune, one of India’s prominent IT hubs, according to Square Yards.This investment aligns with Microsoft’s broader strategy to expand its data center operations and presence…
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’,…
