G42 in talks with Indian companies to adopt and further develop Hindi LLM use-cases: CEO Manu Jain

G42 in talks with Indian companies to adopt and further develop Hindi LLM use-cases: CEO Manu Jain

G42, a United Arab Emirates-based technology holding group, has started discussions with startups and tech companies in India to build generative AI solutions based on its Hindi large language model (LLM) NANDA, Manu Jain, CEO of its India arm, said in an exclusive interaction with Mint. With this foundational model, Hindi language speakers can harness the … Read more

Generative AI has a clean-energy problem

Generative AI has a clean-energy problem

Nasty, brutish and short, more like. Talk to utilities and data-centre operators and, though many share Mr Altman’s excitement about artificial intelligence (AI), they are grappling with an energy conundrum on which the future of three big economic shifts partly hinges: the AI revolution; the efforts to electrify swathes of the economy; and the fight … Read more

Cummins India battles stiff competition, export challenges

Cummins India battles stiff competition, export challenges

Shares of Cummins India Ltd have declined 8% since its March quarter results (Q4FY24) despite a significant Ebitda growth of 48% year-on-year.  Momentum across all segments led to a 38% growth in domestic revenue. However, investors appear to be more concerned about the increasing competition in the segments affected by the new emission norms that … Read more

Big tech’s great AI power grab

Big tech’s great AI power grab

The comparison with the famously capex-happy energy industry is apt not just because of the sums involved. AI needs vast amounts of processing power. And that processing power needs vast amounts of electricity. On May 2nd Bob Blue, chief executive of Dominion Energy, one of America’s biggest utilities, said that data-centre developers now regularly ask … Read more