AI News – Page 229
- Progress Appoints Ed Keisling as Chief AI Officer to Drive AI Strategy
Keisling previously served as senior vice president of engineering for infrastructure management at Progress.
Vidyashree Srinivas ·
- Freshworks’ Founder Launches Together AI Studio to Fuel Indian AI Startups
vandana.nair ·
- UBTECH Advances Humanoid Robotics with Swarm Intelligence Training at Zeekr
The initiative involves UBTECH’s Walker S1 humanoid robots executing tasks like sorting, handling, and precision assembly.
Sanjana Gupta ·
- Flora Launches AI Platform with More Creative Controls, Encourages ‘AI Haters’ to Try it
Flora aims to be an AI-powered platform for creative professionals while giving back creative control.
Ankush Das ·
- ‘AI Doesn’t Need Protein So it Won’t Eat Us,’ says SoftBank CEO
“AI will understand human happiness and try to make humans happy,” Son said.
Siddharth Jindal ·
- SoftBank, OpenAI to Develop Cristal Intelligence – an Advanced Enterprise AI
The companies also established a joint venture called SB OpenAI Japan.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
- Shein Re-enters India with Reliance Retail Partnership, Ensures Data Localisation
Shein India Fast Fashion will initially deliver only in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.
vandana.nair ·
- Budget 2025: Govt Earmarks ₹7,000 Crore for Semiconductor Industry
A total of ₹22,071 crore has been earmarked under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
Sanjana Gupta ·
- Masayoshi Son Claps Back at Musk on Stargate: ‘We Are Not the Bank; We Are SoftBank’
“I have no doubt we will make it happen.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
- DeepSeek Becomes the World's Leading App, Driven by India's Surge
Indian IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw recently announced that India will host DeepSeek on its local servers.
Aditi Suresh ·
- India’s Quantum Mission Gets a ₹600 Crore Boost with Budget 2025
The mission, initially approved by the government in 2023, has a total allocation of ₹6,003.65 crore over an eight-year period.
Sanjana Gupta ·
- Dharwad’s EMC 2.0 Attracts ₹300 Crore Investment
The state government aims to replicate Bengaluru’s efficiency and success in other parts of the state.
Shalini Mondal ·
- OpenAI Plans to ‘Replace Smartphones’ With New AI Device
Open AI CEO Sam Altman told Nikkei Asia that the company is planning to build the device in partnership with former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
- NVIDIA to Make AR Glasses Soon
Joins Meta's party, who unveiled what it calls the “most advanced pair of AR glasses ever made”.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
- Synaptics, Google Join Hands to Advance Edge AI for IoT Devices
Synaptics’ Astra platform combines low-power silicon with open-source software, aiming to make AI solutions easier and faster to develop.
Shalini Mondal ·
- OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5, Runs Out of GPUs
Sam Altman announced that tens of thousands of GPUs will be added next week, with hundreds of thousands more coming soon.
Aditi Suresh ·
- Microsoft to Pull the Plug on Skype in May 2025, Teams Set to Take Over
Users will still have access to core Skype features in Teams, including one-on-one calls, group calls, messaging, and file sharing.
Siddharth Jindal ·
- Netflix is Hiring for ML Scientist and ML Engineer
These roles, part of the Content & Media ML Foundations team, aim to enhance content intelligence, personalisation, and advertising through machine learning.
Vidyashree Srinivas ·
- Ford Business Solutions Expands in India with New Bengaluru Office
Over the next four years, FBS plans to hire 2,000 additional employees across India, further strengthening its workforce of 12,000 in the country.
Shalini Mondal ·
- Tencent Releases Hunyuan Turbo S to Rival DeepSeek as Competition Heats up in China
The model outperforms DeepSeek-V3, Claude-3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o in several tasks.
Supreeth Koundinya ·