If Chinese AI lab Deepseek shook the industry with its open-source, budget-friendly reasoning model earlier this year, another Chinese startup, Monica, is impressing many with its new general-purpose AI agentic model, Manus. Are there lessons for India? What’s Manus and why is it the news? Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) lab DeepSeek disrupted AI with its…
It is welcome that India is gearing up to take on the challenge of artificial intelligence (AI). This technology is vital not just in its generative avatar, which has caught the public imagination ever since ChatGPT’s 2022 debut, but also in multifarious forms that will fundamentally alter our notion of productivity. Economies that deploy AI…
India is stepping up its game in artificial intelligence, with the government pushing an ambitious plan to develop homegrown AI models within the next ten months. The Modi administration has greenlit 18 proposals, offering support in the form of computing power, data, and funding to drive AI solutions in areas like agriculture and climate change….
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…
