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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


NEWSLETTER: GOOGLE FUMBLES AT 'WOKE' ATTEMPT, MISTRAL BECOMES 'LARGE', NVIDIA'S HUANG SAYS NO CODING NEEDED, 60% OF GPT 3.5 OUTPUT HAS SOME FORM OF PLAGIARISM, AND MORE...

New Delhi, March 1 -- On 21 February, Google posted on X: "We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions. Here's our statement." A day later, Google ... Read More


NEWSLETTER: WHY OPENAI'S SORA IS MAKING WAVES; GOOGLE'S LUMIERE, GEMINI 1.5, AND MORE

New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- You would have to be living under an online rock not to have heard about OpenAI's text-to-video model called Sora that is making waves for its ability to generate up to minute-lo... Read More


Newsletter: IT'S A YEAR SINCE THE LAUNCH OF INDIA'S HOMEGROWN MOBILE OS CALLED BHAROS. WHAT'S UP WITH IT?

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- "If a manufacturer decides to work with us and build a phone from scratch with BharOS, we can roll it out in three months," insists Karthik Ayyar When I wrote about 'Why the odds... Read More


NEWSLETTER: WHY GENAI PROJECTS NEED POTS OF PATIENCE

New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- First, the good news. Spending on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, hardware, and related services amounted to $19 billion in 2023, and is expected to double in... Read More


Newsletter: WHY WEF BELIEVES AI CAN POSE A GRAVE RISK TO GLOBAL STABILITY, SHARPEN DIGITAL DIVIDE

New Delhi, Jan. 19 -- The sixth episode of the podcast 'Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates' was focused mostly on the rapid growth of artificial intelligence and generative AI. In his conversation with Gate... Read More


NEWSLETTER: GENERATIVE AI MEETS THE INDUSTRIAL METAVERSE

New Delhi, Jan. 12 -- I've consistently maintained that the metaverse is not dying as many believe, and that artificial intelligence (AI) is certainly not killing it. I've also held the view that whil... Read More


NEWSLETTER: 10 DIGITAL TRENDS SHAPING OUR WORLD

New Delhi, Dec. 29 -- As 2023 ends, I highlight some of the trends that I wrote about in the past year, and how those are panning out in this rapidly accelerating digital world. While the list is not ... Read More