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Source: Live Mint Microsoft has introduced Phi-4, the latest addition to its Phi family of small language models (SLMs). With 14 billion parameters, Phi-4 stands out for its ability to tackle complex reasoning, particularly in mathematical domains, while maintaining proficiency in general language processing tasks. The model showcases advancements in scaling down size without compromising…
Source: Live Mint New Delhi: Google on Wednesday launched Gemini 2.0, its new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models, that it says is equipped to break down complex queries, burnishing the tool’s appeal as a more useful, practical product for businesses to adopt. “Over the last year, we have been investing in developing more agentic…
Source: Live Mint Microsoft-backed OpenAI is no stranger to lawsuits. The soaring reach of its large language model (LLM)-based chatbot, ChatGPT, has continually rattled media houses, artists, and content creators across the world, prompting them to initiate legal action for copyright infringement. They argue that OpenAI is illegally scraping their high-quality and original data to…
Source: Live Mint In less than four years the share price of Chegg, an online education service, has dropped by 99%. A post-pandemic slump in digital learning is partly to blame for its tumble. A bigger problem for the company, though, is artificial intelligence (AI). Its customers are mostly students who want help answering their…
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…
