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Newsletter: No GPT-5 for now but GPT-4o wows with voice, video, emotions; Was Google I/O a showstopper?; and more...

New Delhi, May 17 -- Ever since OpenAI inadvertently published a blog in March, hinting at the release of GPT-4.5 Turbo, and CEO Sam Altman referred to a new ChatGPT model release this year when asked... Read More


NEWSLETTER: WHY MICROSOFT IS COSYING UP WITH OPENAI'S RIVALS TOO; EKSTEP FOUNDATION'S 'ADBHUT INDIA' AI VISION; DRIVERLESS RACING CARS RUN AMOK; AND MORE...

New Delhi, May 10 -- Microsoft, which has invested more than $10 billion in OpenAI, uses the startup's GPT-4 to power Microsoft Copilot, among other things. But this strategy appears to have demoraliz... Read More


NEWSLETTER: DOES SIZE MATTER ANY LONGER? SMALL GENAI MODELS TOO CAN PERFORM MAGIC; VIDU VS SORA; AND MORE...

New Delhi, May 3 -- In his 1973 seminal work, 'Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered', E.F. Schumacher advocates for a shift towards sustainable and human-centered economics. ... Read More


NEWSLETTER: WHEN AI GETS INTO A DOGFIGHT, AND WHY SHOULD IT MATTER; LLAMA-3, PHI-3 HAIL OPEN SOURCE LLM, SLM STRENGTHS; AUTONOMOUS AI AGENTS, AND MORE

New Delhi, April 26 -- In the 2005 movie 'Stealth', three US fighter pilots played by Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, and Jamie Foxx, battle what was then a state-of-the-art Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (... Read More


NEWSLETTER: AI SYSTEMS ROUTINELY OUTPERFORM HUMANS, AFFIRMS AI INDEX REPORT 2024; SHOULD WE BE WORRIED?

New Delhi, April 19 -- There's hardly a day that goes by without someone speculating if artificial intelligence systems such as GPT-4, Gemini, and Claude 3 are becoming sentient, the fear being that A... Read More


NEWSLETTER: WHY NVIDIA REMAINS THE AI CHIP BOSS; AT LEAST FOR A WHILE

New Delhi, April 12 -- I recently interviewed Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of US-based Cerebras Systems, which last month released what it touts to be the world's largest and fastest artificial ... Read More


NEWSLETTER: WHY TECH FIRMS LOVE OUR VOICES, FACES, OTHER BIOMETRICS, AND WHY WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT AI AUDIO, VIDEO DEEPFAKES

New Delhi, April 5 -- If you are a public speaker, a podcaster, or simply love sharing your videos and audios on social media sites, you need to be aware that AI tools can mimic your voice in seconds ... Read More


NEWLETTER: WILL WE SEE GPT-5 SOON? NVIDIA CHURNS OUT BLACKWELL AND GROOT; ROBOT FROM OPENAI; INDIA'S YOTTA GETS GPUS; AND MORE...

New Delhi, March 22 -- The world of generative AI, or GenAI, refuses to give anyone a breather. Given the incredible pace at which developments are taking place, it's hard for any single person to con... Read More


NEWSLETTER: DO OR DIE: WHY INDIA NEEDS ITS WAFER FABS AND AI INVESTMENTS

New Delhi, March 15 -- The Union cabinet's decision to allocate a little over $1 billion towards the India AI Mission and its approval for four private semiconductor foundries are critical to reducing... Read More


NEWSLETTER: LLM EXPLOSION; MUSK SUES OPENAI; WHY KHOSLA IS OPPOSING OPEN-SOURCE LLMS; INDIA'S STANCE ON LLMS, AND MORE

New Delhi, March 8 -- With hundreds of large language models (LLMs) screaming for attention, it's hardly surprising to see an LLM or an LLM-based chatbot being launched almost daily with claims that t... Read More