Global Tech
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's Global Tech section.
The Ultimate Guide to Understanding China’s AI Model Ecosystem
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently met with leading private sector business figures to discuss boosting the country's economy.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI Mafia Strikes Again with Mira Murati's New Venture
But what is she really up to?
Aditi Suresh ·
Build AI to Boost Human Capabilities, Not Replace Them, Says Google DeepMind Executive
“Each and every person on the planet will have at their disposal an amazingly powerful, universal assistant, as well as specialised assistants,” Manish Gupta, a senior director at Google DeepMind, said.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Throw Enough GPUs at DeepSeek and You Will Get Grok 3
xAI boosted Grok 3's performance by increasing compute capacity, first with 122 days of synchronous training on 100,000 GPUs, followed by 92 days of scaling to 200,000 GPUs.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Why on Earth is the DeepSeek Server Always 'Busy'?
While DeepSeek offers tremendous savings over OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic API, it is experiencing severe performance issues.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Apache Iceberg Drives Netflix’s Data Infrastructure for Movies
Apache Iceberg's table format is ideal for large data lakes and integrates easily with Spark, Flink, Hive, Presto, and more.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Meta Is No Longer Just a Social Media Company
Like Meta, tech giants like Apple, Nvidia, X, FigureAI, and Apptronik are investing heavily in robotics to shape the future of AI-driven automation.
Siddharth Jindal ·
The One Canva Feature That India Can’t Live Without
Canva is planning to launch a Hindi website in the next few months.
Siddharth Jindal ·
India Can Lead Upcoming Moonshot Innovations, says Google X founder Sebastian Thrun
“I think at some point here in Bengaluru, you're going to fly to the airport in five minutes."
Aditi Suresh ·
Google Used AI to Block 2 Million Apps from Reaching Google Play
‘Like humans, AI is only great at spotting attacks it has seen before.’
Supreeth Koundinya ·
‘AI is Probably the Next Cloud, Not the Next Blockchain’
Virtusa, supported by Helio, aims to become an AI-first services company by 2030.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Why Everyone is Rushing to Build Reinforcement Learning Environments
“RL environment specifications are among the most consequential things we can write as AI researchers.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google Just Made AI Available Where AI Companies Still Can’t
Gemini in Classroom aims to help educators and students enhance their productivity.
Ankush Das ·
Why Intuit Decided to Build GenOS Instead of Onboarding 11,000 AI Models
Rather than building fragmented tools, GenOS enables Intuit to deliver consistent and scalable AI experiences by integrating evaluation, personalisation, security, and fraud prevention directly into the core platform.
Mohit Pandey ·
Google’s Redemption Arc Continues With Gemini 2.5 Flash
The model excels at coding, general-purpose tasks, with ridiculously low API pricing and outputs 200 + tokens per second.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
How Will China Make Money With AI if Its Models are Open Source?
It will likely follow the playbook it has used for years.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
An Apple a Day Keeps Intelligence Away
Apple seems to be yearning for the glory days when Steve Jobs’ magic touch made every product launch a headline event.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Economic Survey 2025 Confirms What We’ve Long Feared: AI is Coming for Jobs
In 2025, we may see the first AI agents join the workforce and materially change the output of companies, OpenAI chief Altman said earlier this year.
Siddharth Jindal ·
DeepSeek is the Robinhood of AI
Microsoft is adding DeepSeek R1 to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, expanding its AI portfolio.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Why US Big Techs Have Embraced DeepSeek but Kept China at Arm’s Length
DeepSeek’s success has made US big tech companies rethink their AI strategies.
Siddharth Jindal ·