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Source: Business Standard 2 min read Last Updated : Sep 16 2024 | 6:35 PM IST Accel Atoms 4.0, the fourth cohort of global venture capital firm Accel’s pre-seed scaling programme, is inviting applications starting Monday from promising startups in two categories – those building for Bharat’ and those focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI)….
Source: Live Mint What ‘world peace’ is to Miss India contestants, ‘geopolitical risk’ is to fund managers – a cliched answer that they spout when faced with the inevitable ‘What is the risk?’ question. Bertie, too, has often used this platitude and when his client recently asked him the oft-repeated risk question, he unfurled the…
Source: Business Standard Naveen Tewari, Co-founder and CEO of inMobi 2 min read Last Updated : Sep 11 2024 | 6:42 PM IST Softbank-backed InMobi today announced that it has raised $100 million via a debt financing agreement from MARS Growth Capital, a joint venture between MUFG and Liquidity Group. The funds will be…
Source: Live Mint As India has largest amount of data and largest IT services industry in the world, the country can do to artificial intelligence (AI) what China did to manufacturing, said Ola founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Bhavish Aggarwal on Sunday. In a post on social media platform X (formerly twitter), Bhavish Aggarwal…
Source: Live Mint ANYONE CAN spot a tipping point after it’s been crossed. Also known as critical transitions, such mathematical cliff-edges influence everything from the behaviour of financial markets and the spread of disease to the extinction of species. The financial crisis of 2007-09 is often described as one. So is the moment that covid-19…
Source: Live Mint After months of rumours, Sam Altman’s startup OpenAI has finally unveiled a search engine competitor to Google called SearchGPT. The new feature is currently in ‘prototype’ stage and is only available via a waiting list, but is expected to be rolled out to all users in the future. In a blogpost about…
Source: Live Mint Since AI’s most popular offering, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, debuted two years back and made esoteric AI tech accessible to the masses, there has been excitement over intelligent machines taking over mundane tasks or assisting humans in complex work. Geeks declared that costs would drop and productivity skyrocket, eventually leading to ‘artificial general intelligence’,…
Source: Live Mint While this is the obvious part, beneath the surface, the bigger fight is also about controlling all streams of user data, including those from search engines and social media, which can help big tech companies such as Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI build the world’s most powerful artificial…
Source: Live Mint PWC, a professional-services firm, reckons that AI could add almost $16trn to global economic output by around 2030 (compared with 2017). McKinsey, a consulting firm, separately arrived at a similar figure, but now reckons this could rise by another 15-40% because of newer forms of AI such as large language models. Yet…
Source: Live Mint In 2023 Apple released the iPhone 15 Pro, powered by the a17 bionic chip, with 19bn transistors. The density of transistors has doubled 34 times over 56 years. That exponential progress, loosely referred to as Moore’s law, has been one of the engines of the computing revolution. As transistors became smaller they…
