Global Tech
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's Global Tech section.
Databricks Partners with NVIDIA to Unleash ‘Sovereign AI’ in Enterprise
The partnership aims to boost the efficiency, accuracy, and performance of AI development pipelines for modern AI factories.
shyam.upadhyay ·
Thanks to ‘Apple Intelligence’, not OpenAI, Siri Now Understands You Better
Apple has developed a 3 billion parameter on-device language model and a larger server-based model accessible via Private Cloud Compute on Apple silicon servers.
Siddharth Jindal ·
The Irony of Google’s News Initiative in India
Since 2018, Google has been throwing $300M to “help journalism thrive in the digital age”
tasmia.ansari ·
Meet OpenAI’s First and Only India Employee
“Compared to many of the solutions we see out of other countries from the developer ecosystem, the stuff that is coming out of India is just incredible.”
Mohit Pandey ·
AI is Coming for FAANG’s ‘Ghost Engineers’
Several software engineers manage to get away with underperformance while continuing to draw high salaries.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Intel’s Promise to IISc is 10 AI PCs, for Now
Besides building AI PCs and data centres, Intel is also undertaking skill development work with the governments of the Indian states.
Mohit Pandey ·
Cursor Agents are Making GitHub Copilot, Codeium Nervous
With a valuation of $2.5 billion, OpenAI-backed Cursor is already making $4 million a month in revenue.
Mohit Pandey ·
Why You Should Take Gary Marcus Seriously
Back in 2019, Marcus had predicted that language models wouldn’t lead to AGI.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Why Is Microsoft Betting Big on Quantum Computing?
Microsoft aims to use quantum computing to address complex problems that are currently impractical for classical computers.
Tarunya ·
The Year Google Showed Everyone How AI is Really Done
2024 marked the dawn of the “Gemini era” for Google.
Tarunya ·
The CUDA Killer
ROCm was initially built for NVIDIA GPUs; however, AMD later prioritised it for its own GPUs.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Canvas Kills Google Docs, Challenges VS Code & Cursor
ChatGPT Canvas allows users to edit text before prompting ChatGPT to generate the final copy.
Siddharth Jindal ·
JetBrains Still Remains the Winner of the AI Coding Race
JetBrains’ recurring revenue was reportedly $593 million in November 2024 – the highest amongst all AI copilots and code editors.
Mohit Pandey ·
OpenAI o1 Can't Do Maths, But Excels at Making Excuses
It’s not just OpenAI’s o1—no LLM in the world is anywhere close to cracking the toughest problems in mathematics (yet).
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI is So Doomed if Inference Time Scaling for o1 Fails
But Sam Altman and his team are taking their biggest risk ever to bring AGI next year.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Tesla's Autonomous Cybercab, Robovan Aims to Disrupt, But Challenges Loom
Robotaxi is expected to roll out for under $30,000, making it an affordable option in the EV market.
Tarunya ·
AWS Trains Over 5.5 Mn in AI and Cloud Skills in India
“Keeping responsible AI as our goal, we work backwards from customer needs and provide what they require.”
shritama.saha ·
GitHub is Madly in Love with India’s Burgeoning Developer Ecosystem
Github partnered with Indian IT firm Infosys and opened the first GitHub Center of Excellence at Infosys, Bengaluru.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Missing NVIDIA GTC 2024 Would be a Foolish Sin
NVIDIA GTC 2024 is only going to be bigger and bolder this year with high anticipation of next-gen GPUs and generative AI applications.
vandana.nair ·
OpenAI is Building AGI, One Frame at a Time
Sora represents a turning point in OpenAI’s pursuit of AGI, leveraging video as a medium for training models in real-world logic and dynamics.
Aditi Suresh ·