AI News – Page 232
- MongoDB Acquires Voyage AI in a Bid to Redefine Databases in the AI Era
MongoDB plans to integrate Voyage AI’s tech into its database and solve problems for developers building AI applications.
Ankush Das ·
- RevRag.AI Launches AI Onboarding Agent Sophie to Boost Customer Activation
“Our vision has always been to assist revenue teams, not replace them,” says co-founder Pankaj Gupta.
Sanjana Gupta ·
- Alibaba Releases Open-Source Video Generation Model Wan 2.1, Outperforms OpenAI’s Sora
The company has launched multiple models optimised for video generation, offering capabilities in text-to-video, image-to-video, video editing, text-to-image, and video-to-audio.
Siddharth Jindal ·
- Yoshua Bengio Proposes ‘Scientist AI’ to Mitigate Catastrophic Risks from Superintelligent Agents
Scientist AI is a “system designed to explain the world from observations, as opposed to taking actions in it to imitate or please humans”.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
- Databricks Expands Presence in India with New Bengaluru Office
The company has seen over 80% annualised growth in India in the past two fiscal years.
Siddharth Jindal ·
- Perplexity Prepares to Enter The Agentic Browsing Race with ‘Comet’
The company did not disclose the release date or details about the browser’s features.
Aditi Suresh ·
- Google Launches Gemini Code Assist, a Free AI Coding Tool for Developers
Google said its AI coding assistant offers “practically unlimited capacity with up to 1,80,000 code completions per month”.
Aditi Suresh ·
- Google Secures Cloud Deal with Salesforce to Counter Microsoft
Salesforce research estimates that AI-powered agents are a $2 trillion opportunity.
Aditi Suresh ·
- CRED Launches Svalbard with AI-based Credit Management and Predictive Scoring
A real-time monitoring system tracks unbilled transactions with 92% categorisation accuracy, while CRED Protect detects anomalies in statements to prevent hidden charges.
Mohit Pandey ·
- Blackstone, Panchshil to Build India’s Largest Data Centre with ₹20,000 Crore Investment
The 500 MW facility will span 14 buildings across 3 million sq ft and will operate on up to 65% renewable energy, making it the first of its kind in India.
Mohit Pandey ·
- Madhya Pradesh Emerges as India’s Next Tech Hub with ₹25,640 Cr Investment at GIS 2025
The summit witnessed major investment announcements, set to generate approximately 1,83,400 employment opportunities.
Shalini Mondal ·
- SynaXG, Kyocera Unveil mmWave 5G vRAN Solution on NVIDIA AI Aerial Platform
“AI-RAN represents the next frontier for wireless networks,” says VP of telecoms at NVIDIA.
Sanjana Gupta ·
- IBM to Acquire DataStax to Expand Generative AI Capabilities
IBM said that the deal aligns with its focus on open-source AI.
Siddharth Jindal ·
- Transformer Co-Author Niki Parmar Joins Anthropic After Founding Two AI Startups
Parmar joined Google Research in 2015 as part of Google Brain, where she played a key role in developing the Transformer architecture—a foundation for modern AI models, including ChatGPT.
Siddharth Jindal ·
- Alibaba Launches New Qwen Reasoning Model; To Release iOS and Android App for Qwen Chat
The QwQ-Max reasoning model is ‘designed to push the boundaries of deep reasoning and versatile problem-solving.’
Supreeth Koundinya ·
- Anthropic Releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Crushes OpenAI o1, o3-mini, and DeepSeek R1 in Coding
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available across all Claude plans, including Free, Pro, Team, and Enterprise, as well as through Anthropic’s API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.
Siddharth Jindal ·
- DeepSeek Launches DeepEP, a Communication library for Mixture of Experts Model Training and Inference
The library offers ‘high-throughput kernels for training and inference prefilling.’
Supreeth Koundinya ·
- Indian Tech Industry to Reach $300 Billion Revenue by FY26, Nasscom Report
The domestic technology sector is moving towards the $60 Bn mark, growing at 7.0% y-o-y.
Shalini Mondal ·
- OpenAI’s o3-Mini Shows Superior Accuracy Than o1-Mini Without ‘Thinking’ Longer: Harvard Study
Thinking harder isn’t the same as thinking longer.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
- Apple to Invest $500 Billion in US, Create 20,000 Jobs Over Next 4 Years
The 2,50,000-square-foot facility, scheduled to open in 2026, is slated to create thousands of jobs.
Siddharth Jindal ·