AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
NVIDIA’s ‘Robot Brain’ with Real-Time Reasoning Available for $3,499
Jetson Thor, powered by Blackwell, offers up to 7.5 times more AI compute and 3.5 times greater energy efficiency than its predecessor, Jetson Orin.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Google Unveils ‘Nano-Banana’ Image Model With Editing and Fusion Features
The model is priced at $30 per 1 million output tokens, with each image costing 1,290 tokens, or $0.039 per image.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Apple, OpenAI Have Locked Up Markets to Maintain Their Monopolies: xAI in Lawsuit
“They prevent innovators like X and xAI from competing.”
Supreeth Koundinya ·
AI-Native Sales Platform WizCommerce Raises $8 Million
The startup aims to enhance its technology and expand in the US, addressing the $10 trillion wholesale market's reliance on manual processes.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Bud Ecosystem, NxtGen Partner to Make GenAI Affordable for Indian Enterprises
The partnership aims to remove two major hurdles companies face, including high infrastructure costs and lack of in-house AI expertise.
Shalini Mondal ·
Databricks to Acquire Tecton to Boost Real-Time AI Agent Deployment
The move aims to simplify how enterprises prepare and deliver data for AI-driven applications such as fraud detection, risk scoring, and personalised recommendations.
Shalini Mondal ·
OpenAI Hires Raghav Gupta to Lead Education Division for India, APAC Region
The company is expanding in India and will support a $500,000 grant for research on AI's impact on education.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Snowflake Opens New Office in Bengaluru
India has become a key market for Snowflake, which plans to increase its local workforce to more than 700 employees by the end of 2025.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Elon Musk Says Grok 3 Will Be Open Sourced in 6 Months
Meanwhile, Grok 2.5 available on Hugging Face.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
IIT Kanpur’s C3iHub Startups Launch Surveillance, Deep Tech Products
The event highlighted the need for collaboration among government, academia and startups to enhance India’s deep tech sectors.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Meta Strikes $10 Billion Cloud Deal with Google
Meta also lifted its capital expenditure guidance last month, raising the lower end of its forecast by $2 billion.
Siddharth Jindal ·
New Cadence App Boosts AI Chip Power Modelling with NVIDIA with 97% Accuracy
The app allows engineers to track power estimation, reduction and sign-off through the design process.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Wipro to Acquire Harman’s Digital Transformation Solutions Unit
The deal will bring more than 5,600 DTS employees, including key leaders across the Americas, Europe and Asia, into Wipro.
Shalini Mondal ·
Google Claims Gemini’s AI Prompt Uses ‘Less Energy Than 9 Seconds of TV’
Each prompt also produces 0.03 grams of CO₂ equivalent and uses 0.26 millilitres of water or “about five drops”.
Smruthi Nadig ·
OpenAI Appoints Key Leads in India as Altman Plans Delhi Trip Next Month
OpenAI has appointed Sheeladitya Mohanty as marketing lead and Akash Iyer as social lead for India.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Kyndryl to Invest $2.25 Bn in India Over 3 Years, Launch AI Lab & Skilling Programmes
The lab will also support projects aligned with the IndiaAI Mission, including governance transformation and digital public infrastructure.
Shalini Mondal ·
Marut Drones Gets DGCA Certification For its Skyswift 56 Surveillance Drone
‘The system can be deployed in under two minutes and packed into a backpack for rapid field use.’
Sanjana Gupta ·
OpenAI Confirms Plans to Open First India Office in New Delhi
India is OpenAI’s second-largest market for ChatGPT after the United States, and among the fastest-growing.
Siddharth Jindal ·
TCS Opens Google Cloud Gemini Experience Centre in Bengaluru for BFSI Sector
Customers will be able to leverage Google Cloud’s Gemini models, Agentspace technologies, and TCS’ AI platforms.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Telangana to Establish World-Class Life Sciences University After ₹54,000 Crore Sectoral Growth
The board also reviewed plans for the upgradation of Genome Valley and MedTech Park.
Shalini Mondal ·