Sam Altman: the Economy Is Adapting to AI Slower Than Expected

Sam Altman says he misjudged how quickly AI would scramble the economy. In an interview with David Senra, posted on Sunday, the OpenAI CEO said he believed GPT-4’s 2023 release would quickly put more software businesses “up for grabs.” Instead, he said he’s seen customers and companies largely sticking with familiar products and routines. “I … Read more

Alibaba stock slumps in Hong Kong after $10.2 billion share placement to fund AI

The Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba slumped on Monday after the Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing company launched a $10.2 billion share placement, as investors worried about payback from its massive AI spending. Alibaba said on Sunday its HK$80 billion share placement finalised at HK$112.70 apiece – an 8.4% discount to its Friday close – … Read more

Nvidia partners with Wall Street giants to raise $500 billion for AI buildout

Nvidia said on Monday it has partnered with six major financial institutions to launch compute financing platforms aimed at raising over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure. The move highlights how surging demand for AI computing capacity is drawing institutional investors, as governments, companies and startups race to build out data centers to … Read more

US firms training AI using Chinese examples: Beijing

  Beijing accused US artificial intelligence firms Monday of using Chinese examples to train their models, days after Washington threatened sanctions on Chinese firms for allegedly stealing American technology.”It is understood that many American artificial intelligence enterprises have distilled Chinese models during their research, development and training processes,” the Chinese commerce ministry said in a … Read more

HCLTech to set up Rs 14,257 crore AI data centre in Odisha with Sarvam

HCLTech, country’s third largest IT services company, on Friday announced its plans to set up its first AI Data Center in the upcoming Odisha Sovereign AI Park in partnership with Sarvam and the Government of Odisha. “The planned capital outlay for the project will be Rs 14,257 crores, including financial assistance from the Government of … Read more

India’s IT model is out of date. Can the industry reinvent itself?

For decades it seemed Indian IT could only grow. The Y2K bug turbocharged their initial expansion in the late 1990s, and though later waves of changing technologies brought down other companies (remember Nokia), the Indian IT sector surfed to success. With every new technology, they pivoted. From SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) to SaaS … Read more