Amazon has lately made a bold move with its commitment of $100 billion investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in 2025. The investment is to put Amazon ahead of its competitors and also reflects its belief that AI is the biggest technological shift since the internet. CEO Andy Jassy emphasized that most of […]

The past few weeks witnessed that major tech companies like Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet are deeply invested in the future of artificial intelligence (AI). Their recent earnings reports reveal that the companies are not backing down from their massive AI infrastructure investments. The investments have reached a combined total of $246 billion in 2024 […]

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has lately praised the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek for its innovative approach to artificial intelligence training. He was speaking at the Q4 earnings call of Amazon and said that he was particularly impressed by the reinforcement learning methods and inference optimizations of the startup. He pointed out that the most intriguing […]

The rise of Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek sparked concerns initially in the global tech market and caused a sharp sell-off by wiping $600 billion from Nvidia’s market value. It appears that Nvidia may actually emerge as a winner from this disruption, reveals JPMorgan analysts. The innovative approach of DeepSeek to AI model training demonstrated […]

India is taking major steps to strengthen its AI capabilities after the rise of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. The government lately announced several initiatives to boost domestic AI development such as building homegrown Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), launching foundational AI model and expanding computing infrastructure. The efforts are basically aimed at positioning India as a […]

The Ministry of Finance has issued an advisory to the employees to avoid using ChatGPT, DeepSeek and other such AI tools for official work citing concerns over data security and confidentiality. It is reported that the advisory warns that AI chatbots pose risks to sensitive government information when used on office computers and devices. The […]

The rise of generative AI has placed data at the center of discussions globally amid concerns about privacy, cybersecurity and accuracy of AI-generated content. A recent survey of risk and compliance professionals by Riskonnect highlighted some important issues such as employee misuse, ethical risks and intellectual property concerns. Similar findings also are being echoed by […]

India is on the move of AI self-reliance and lately launched the country’s first fully sovereign generative AI chatbot named myShakti. The platform has been developed by Yotta Data Services and is built on the DeepSeek open-source AI model. It operates entirely on Indian servers and ensures fair data privacy as well as strict security. […]

The claim of Sam Altman in 2023 was that competing with OpenAI in training foundation models was “totally hopeless” and he definitely seemed to dismiss the possibility of innovation from startups with limited resources. The open-source model of DeepSeek is R1 and it was built at a fraction of the cost compared to Western AI […]

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has come under intense scrutiny following the launch of its open-source language model R1. It has failed critical safety tests as researchers at Cisco tested the model against 50 different attack prompts which were designed to provoke harmful behavior. The DeepSeek R1 failed every single one and is now the least […]