The Telangana government on Thursday announced global majors, including Costco and Stolt-Nielsen, are reportedly establishing their global capability centres (GCCs) in Hyderabad, further strengthening the city’s position as a premier technology hub. The announcement…

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NVIDIA on Monday announced the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 family of open models, datasets and libraries aimed at supporting the development of transparent and efficient multi-agent AI systems across industries. The Nemotron 3 lineup includes Nano, Super and Ultra…

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Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 on Tuesday announced the release of NANDA 87B, an open-source Hindi-English large language model with 87 billion parameters, an upgrade to its earlier NANDA model. NANDA 87B is accessible as an open-weight resource on the MBZUAI…

Indian quick-commerce firm Zepto has released an internal tool that allows users to place Zepto Cafe orders using natural-language instructions through an LLM such as Anthropic’s Claude. The tool, built by a Zepto engineer and shared publicly on GitHub, was…

Zuppa Geo Navigation Technologies has partnered with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, to establish a drone centre of excellence (CoE) at IISc’s department of mechanical engineering to advance indigenous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies.…

Apple has begun early discussions with Indian chipmakers to assemble and package components for its iPhone, the Economic Times reported, citing sources. The talks involved Murugappa Group-owned CG Semi, which is building an outsourced semiconductor assembly…

US-based company Wisk Aero, backed by Boeing, completed the first flight of its Generation 6 autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) on December 16 at its test facility in Hollister, California.  The company said the aircraft conducted…

Persistent Systems and cloud computing platform DigitalOcean have partnered to accelerate AI adoption for enterprises and developers.  The collaboration seeks to develop cost-effective, scalable, and secure infrastructure to support AI workloads and deployments…

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NVIDIA has picked CloudThat, a Bengaluru-based technology training and consulting firm, as its first education services partner in India, marking a key milestone in the country’s fast-growing AI skilling ecosystem. With this partnership, CloudThat has become…

Cyient Semiconductors, a custom ASIC and ASSP chip provider based in Hyderabad, is set to acquire a majority stake in Kinetic Technologies, a California-based power management semiconductor firm. The deal will be done for a total consideration of up to $93…

Mythic, a Palo Alto-based AI chip company, has raised $125 million in a funding round to develop analog processing units designed to cut AI energy use by up to 100x compared with GPUs.  The round was led by deep tech-focused venture capital firm DCVC and…

India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Pune has demonstrated a mobile quantum communication system using a drone-enabled platform, marking a step towards infrastructure-independent quantum networks.  The demonstration involved mobility…

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Gnani.ai, India’s conversational AI company, announced the launch of Vachana speech-to-text (STT), an Indic STT model trained on over one million hours of real-world voice data, as part of its selection under the Indian government’s IndiaAI Mission.  The…

Sarla Aviation began ground testing its half-scale electric vertical take-off and landing demonstrator, SYL-X1, at its Bengaluru facility, marking a key step in India’s private air-taxi development efforts. The Bengaluru-based company said the testing will…

A public disagreement between AI researchers Yann LeCun and Demis Hassabis has reopened a long-running debate on whether human intelligence can be described as “general”. In a recent podcast appearance, LeCun said the idea of general intelligence, when used…

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