Mr Pichai is not alone. New Street Research, a firm of analysts, estimates that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft will together splurge $104bn on building AI data centres this year. Add in spending by smaller tech firms and other industries and the total AI data-centre binge between 2023 and 2027 could reach $1.4trn. The scale … Read more
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’, when machines would … Read more
In a stunning display of mathematical prowess, Google’s AI systems, AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2, have achieved silver medal-level performance at the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad (via India Today). AlphaProof, a groundbreaking AI system introduced by Google, excels in formal mathematical reasoning, reported the publication. Utilizing a blend of language models and the AlphaZero reinforcement learning … Read more
In an interview on the sidelines of the Google I/O Connect held in Bengaluru on Wednesday, Ajjarapu reasoned that with its largest mobile-first population, micro-payment and digital payment models, a booming startup and developer ecosystem, and diverse language landscape, “India is uniquely positioned to drive the next generation of AI innovation.” In India, Google works … Read more
When Aravind Srinivas was accepted at the University of California, Berkeley, to do a PhD, his mother was disappointed. Like many Indian parents, she wanted him to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But things worked out after all; on the west coast he interned at OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind, both of which became … Read more
The story was similar at Google, too, which on 14 May announced features and initiatives to lure developers into building apps and services on its Gemini large language model (LLM)-powered suite of features for Android, Chrome, YouTube and more—which have estimated active user bases of 3.9 billion, 3.2 billion and 2.5 billion, respectively. With Apple … Read more
THE HYPE that followed ChatGPT’s public launch last year was, even by the standards of tech innovations, extreme. OpenAI’s natural-language system creates recipes, writes computer code and parodies literary styles. Its latest iteration can even describe photographs. It has been hailed as a technological breakthrough on a par with the printing press. But it has … Read more
To Zhe Wang at Google DeepMind, an artificial-intelligence (AI) company, corner kicks are like games of chess. Partly because both feature opposing sides poised to react to a single imminent move. But also, no doubt, because they too may be revolutionised by AI. AI models thrive where there is abundant data. Football more than satisfies … Read more
Both claim to generate cinematic-grade video clips with just a few words of text. This has sparked debate around AI’s impact on the intrinsically artistic filmmaking and advertising industries. Yet, their potentially magical abilities appear to be drawing a lukewarm early reaction at best. Three content creators, as well as three filmmaking and advertising veterans … Read more
Backed by billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms and South Korea’s Naver Corp, the artificial reality startup also plans to soon release an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered messaging and social app called Zappy in India, according to Two Platform’s founder and CEO, Pranav Mistry. “Sutra is our mission to fix the language gap in AI language models. … Read more