AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Andrew Ng’s DeepLearning.AI Unveils New Course on Building AI Applications with Haystack
‘Building AI Application with Haystack’ explores building flexible, extendible, and maintainable AI applications using the Haystack framework.
Tanisha Bhattacharjee ·
Ex-Tech Mahindra Veteran Jagdish Mitra Unveils GenAI SaaS Startup Humanize, Plans to Hire 1,000 Employees in 5 Years
Mitra aims to expand into Southeast Asia, Germany, the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan, with a focus on customer experience, supply chain, and sustainability.
Mohit Pandey ·
Enterprise Cloud Platform LambdaTest Unveils AI Test Agent KaneAI for Software Debugging
The platform supports popular tools such as Jira, Slack, GitHub Actions, and Microsoft Teams.
vandana.nair ·
VC Fund Chiratae Ventures Launches 2024 Sonic Program to Boost Early-Stage Indian Tech Startups
The 2024 edition of Chiratae Sonic has expanded its funding scope, inviting applications from companies seeking to raise up to $2 million.
vandana.nair ·
GSTN Announces Analytics Hackathon to Create AI/ML Predictive Models for GST with Prizes up to INR 50 Lakh
Prizes will be awarded to the top three teams whose models are deemed viable by the jury, with a special prize for an all-women team if eligible.
Mohit Pandey ·
OpenAI Partners with Condé Nast to Improve News Access
OpenAI will work closely with Condé Nast's editorial teams to develop AI-generated content that complements the work of human writers and editors.
Tanisha Bhattacharjee ·
Retail Brand Seematti Unveils India’s First AI Fashion Ambassador
This is the first time Seematti is leveraging AI for their consumers.
Tanisha Bhattacharjee ·
LLUMO AI Lands $1M Seed Funding to Build Seamless Enterprise-Grade AI Integration Platform
The funding will support LLUMO AI's expansion into the US market
Pritam Bordoloi ·
Microsoft Launches New Phi-3.5 Models, Outperforms Google Gemini 1.5 Flash, Meta’s Llama 3.1, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o
The Phi-3.5 models are now available on the AI platform Hugging Face under an MIT license, making them accessible for a wide range of applications.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Calsoft and NVIDIA Bring Vision AI to Solve India’s Tollbooth Traffic
The solution, currently being piloted in several major Indian cities, boasts a 95% accuracy rate in reading plates.
vandana.nair ·
Indian Startup Salcit Technologies Leverages Google’s AI Bioacoustic Model for TB Detection
Salcit Technologies plans to integrate the HeAR model with its existing product, Swaasa, which has a track record of employing machine learning for early disease detection.
vandana.nair ·
Meta Launches Metamate, an AI-Powered Assistant for Internal Teams
The product offers a wide range of functions, including document summarisation, work recaps, information retrieval across wikis, data visualisation, and more.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Samantha Ruth Prabhu Supports SAWiT.AI, a Generative AI Learning Challenge for 500,000 Indian Women
Siddharth Jindal ·
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg to Invest in Bengaluru AI Startup Simplismart
Sandberg, known for her influential role in the tech industry, is participating in a $7 million funding round for the startup, which is being led by Accel.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AI Hyperscaler E2E Networks Secures INR 420.51 Crores to Expand Cloud Infrastructure
Pritam Bordoloi ·
HP Enterprise Announces Plan to Acquire Morpheus Data
Pritam Bordoloi ·
Flutter Entertainment Expands with New GCC in Hyderabad
Flutter aims to increase the headcount at this centre to 900 by 2024, with a target of 40% women in leadership positions by 2026, focusing on data analytics and engineering roles.
Mohit Pandey ·
Infosys to Earn $100M+ in Coca-Cola’s Major Cloud Deal with Microsoft
Microsoft, the lead player in the deal, has enlisted Infosys to provide critical support services, capitalising on the Indian IT giant's expertise in cloud technologies.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Infosys Introduces INR 9 Lakh Salary Packages in New ‘Power Programme’ for Freshers
This initiative, which targets candidates with strong coding, software development, and programming skills.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Fractal's Vaidya.ai Outperforms GPT-4, Achieves 83% in PG-NEET
The model has been trained on a vast dataset of over 850,000 images and text entries, sourced from open-source data, data annotation, data collection, and synthetic datasets.
Siddharth Jindal ·