Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reveals PM Modi’s early push for AI left him surprised: ‘About 6 years ago…’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reveals PM Modi’s early push for AI left him surprised: ‘About 6 years ago…’

Jensen Huang, chief executive officer (CEO) of artificial intelligence (AI) giant Nvidia, has revealed that six years ago Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to address his cabinet on AI, said a report by India Today. “About 6 years ago, when I first met Modi Ji, he asked me to meet his cabinet and … Read more

How AI models are getting smarter

How AI models are getting smarter

All these things are powered by artificial-intelligence (AI) models. Most rely on a neural network, trained on massive amounts of information—text, images and the like—relevant to how it will be used. Through much trial and error the weights of connections between simulated neurons are tuned on the basis of these data, akin to adjusting billions … Read more

The breakthrough AI needs | Mint

The breakthrough AI needs | Mint

Large language models have a keen appetite for electricity. The energy used to train OpenAI’s GPT-4 model could have powered 50 American homes for a century. And as models get bigger, costs rise rapidly. By one estimate, today’s biggest models cost $100m to train; the next generation could cost $1bn, and the following one $10bn. … Read more

The breakthrough AI needs | Mint

The breakthrough AI needs | Mint

Large language models have a keen appetite for electricity. The energy used to train OpenAI’s gpt-4 model could have powered 50 American homes for a century. And as models get bigger, costs rise rapidly. By one estimate, today’s biggest models cost $100m to train; the next generation could cost $1bn, and the following one $10bn. … Read more

Indian stock market: 8 key things that changed for market overnight – Gift Nifty, Nvidia results to oil prices

Indian stock market: 8 key things that changed for market overnight - Gift Nifty, Nvidia results to oil prices

Indian stock market: The domestic equity market indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, are expected to open lower on Thursday following weakness in global markets. Asian markets traded lower, while the US stock market ended in the red overnight as investors watched out for Nvidia results for the second quarter. On Wednesday, the Indian stock market … Read more

What Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI chip ‘moonshot’ means

What Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI chip ‘moonshot’ means

New Delhi: If Bhavish Aggarwal, founder of now-listed Ola Electric, is known to dream big, his newest ambition is audacious by even his standards: to build “India’s first AI (artificial intelligence) chips” in four years. Such a plan would thrust Aggarwal, who is likened to Elon Musk for his public persona, into an industry with … Read more

Apple, Nvidia lead sell-off in tech stocks; magnificent seven set to wipe out nearly $900 bn

Apple, Nvidia lead sell-off in tech stocks; magnificent seven set to wipe out nearly $900 bn

Apple and Nvidia led a sell-off in tech stocks on Monday on US recession worries and Berkshire Hathaway’s stake sale in the iPhone maker. The magnificent seven – Alphabet, Amazon , Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia fell as much as 6.5%. The losses in these seven stocks were set to wipe out nearly … Read more

The race is on to control the global supply chain for AI chips

The race is on to control the global supply chain for AI chips

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 got cheaper (more … Read more

What could kill the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom?

What could kill the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom?

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

Wall Street ends slightly up, trade choppy ahead of inflation data

FedEx leaps after upbeat profit forecast * Nvidia falls, drags chip stocks * Rivian up on Volkswagen joint venture * Amazon crosses $2 trillion in market value By Ankika Biswas, Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Carolina Mandl June 26 – Major U.S. stock indexes closed with modest gains on Wednesday after a choppy trading session, with … Read more