Global Tech
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's Global Tech section.
AI Models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Solve 0% of ‘Hard’ Coding Problems
Despite claims of AI models surpassing elite humans, 'a significant gap still remains, particularly in areas demanding novel insights.'
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Is NVIDIA’s AI Market Dominance Under a Threat?
Google and AWS have reduced their reliance on NVIDIA, with Meta and OpenAI set to do the same.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
AI Just Killed the Graduate Job Market—Now What?
“Today AI is like an intern that can work for a couple of hours, but at some point it’ll be like an experienced software engineer that can work for a couple of days.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
The Wild Ways China Smuggles NVIDIA Chips
Chinese AI engineers are flying to Kuala Lumpur with hard drives of training data. They use NVIDIA chips in Malaysian data centers to train models, then take the results back to China.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Why This CTO Thinks MySQL Will Power AI Agents
“SQL is still the best bridge between the LLM, the data source, and the human being.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
AMD is ‘Su’ Ready for AI
AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company expects the market for AI processors to exceed $500 billion by 2028.
Siddharth Jindal ·
From MIT Dropout to Billionaire: How Alexander Wang Built Scale AI
He began his entrepreneurial journey at San Francisco’s startup accelerator, Y Combinator, in 2016.
Aditi Suresh ·
When Google Cloud Paused the Internet
Platforms such as Spotify, Replit, Discord, Claude, Snapchat, Twitch, Cloudflare, and other services that use the Google Cloud faced outages.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Cloudera’s Quiet Comeback in the Age of Hybrid AI
“We've come a long way from being a company that was powering open source analytics all the way to AI.”
Ankush Das ·
Slack Is Building the Agentic OS for Modern Enterprises
Anthropic, which uses Slack as its development hub and has cut product development cycles by 60%, saving an estimated $4.5 million annually.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Three Decades Later, Developers Are Still Choosing Java
“The Java platform is extremely robust, reliable, and secure, which is number one for enterprises”.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Why HR Can’t Trust ChatGPT and How Phenom Wants to Prove It
“Our platform uses a skills ontology, embeddings, and contextual AI to understand a candidate’s experience.”
Ankush Das ·
The Cloudflare-Perplexity Clash Over Web Crawling
Opinions are divided, discussions abound on where to draw the line on web scraping.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Gobble Up AWS
The once-dominant incumbent’s market position could result in three equally strong players.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Salesforce Targets 50% AI-Generated Code by End of 2025
“We’re already seeing 30% productivity improvements, but it’s not just about code generation.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
‘Freshworks, Zoho Offer Less Than 10% of What Oracle Provides’
Indian SaaS players do not have their own cloud and many of these smaller players rely on AWS or Microsoft Azure for hosting.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Indian Startup Founders Push OpenAI to Offer Region-Specific AI Pricing
India is a key player in AI, with a thriving developer and startup ecosystem.
Aditi Suresh ·
Ten Thousand Reasons Microsoft Loves Hyderabad
India, being one of the global leaders in adopting generative AI, is a key market for Microsoft.
Siddharth Jindal ·
How Google Is Helping AI Startups Scale in India
“We interact in person with the company to answer one fundamental question: can we add value to this company at this stage? And if the answer is yes, the likelihood of them making it is high.”
Ankush Das ·
The $50 Billion Market That’s Haunting NVIDIA
“China’s AI moves on with or without U.S. chips. It has to compute to train and deploy advanced models.”
Siddharth Jindal ·