From Her to Klara and the Sun, AI friendship moves beyond the screenAdvancements in artificial intelligence are leading to the development of AI companions for emotional support. Technologies, such as AI wea...
23 Oct, 2026, 10.54 AM IST
ElevenLabs targets AI assistants and customer support with two new voice modelsThe models support over 90 languages and 17,000 voices, with Mini aimed at lower-cost conversations and Max designed for tasks that require...
21 Oct, 2026, 03.06 PM IST
Nvidia’s rivals have built their own AI chips and now want to make the software switch easierNvidia faces competition as Amazon and Google introduce tools that allow minimal changes for chip switching. Amazon's TorchNeuron and Googl...
20 Oct, 2026, 02.15 PM IST
Amazon says its AI chips will work with popular coding language, challenging NvidiaAmazon has unveiled TorchNeuron, a revolutionary tool that enables PyTorch code to be executed seamlessly on its Trainium AI chips. This in...
19 Oct, 2026, 09.22 PM IST
AI hiring startup Hunar.AI raises Rs 40 crore from Blume Ventures, othersThe AI-hiring startup plans to use the money for AI infrastructure, product development and sales and market expansion, targeting businesse...
19 Oct, 2026, 06.45 PM IST
Birla AI Labs launches Yug-1 to forecast demand and spot patterns in business dataYug-1 uses what its technical documentation calls zero-shot probabilistic forecasting. It also provides a range of possible outcomes, allow...
19 Oct, 2026, 04.10 PM IST
Online festive sales fizzle; Snowflake CEO on AI’s impact on softwareHappy Monday! Festive ecommerce sales have slowed down this year, we tell you why. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
19 Oct, 2026, 02.02 PM IST
Voice AI’s future lies in outcome-based pricing: Exotel’s Sachin BhatiaBhatia linked pressure on the per-minute pricing model to venture capital funding and a crowded market, where providers compete to offer in...
19 Oct, 2026, 12.43 PM IST
DeepSeek pushes out updated AI model it says is faster, leanerThe firm unveiled the V4.1-Flash-1017 late Saturday afternoon with a series of posts on X saying the update had “stronger benchmark perform...
17 Oct, 2026, 09.53 PM IST
What is Meta’s Muse Spark Open and what can it do?An open-weight model is an AI model whose core components — the numerical parameters learned during its training, known as its weights — ar...
16 Oct, 2026, 06.29 PM IST
I’ll believe it when I see it: Figma boss on AI restraint calls“It’s a nice thing to say, and I’ll believe it when I see it,” the 33-year-old Field -- one of the youngest American billionaires --told ET...
16 Oct, 2026, 10.54 AM IST
India’s family offices bet on homegrown AI firms to gain groundIndia’s tech landscape is witnessing an influx of investments from family offices and wealthy individuals. Key players like Premji Invest a...
16 Oct, 2026, 08.22 AM IST
Voice-first India is reshaping OpenAI’s priorities: Applications CTOIndian users frequently switch between English and Hindi during the same conversation, a behaviour OpenAI wants its models to understand an...
16 Oct, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
India needs AI-enabled creative stack, forward-looking IP framework: Gaurav BanerjeeGaurav Banerjee emphasized the need for India to create an AI-enabled creative stack during the CII Big Picture Summit. He suggested that c...
15 Oct, 2026, 10.54 PM IST
How AI is Powering the Future of Citizen ServicesIndia is a diverse land, and reflecting the country’s linguistic diversity has been a long-held ambition for technology, AI included. Now, ...
15 Oct, 2026, 05.35 PM IST
Gnani AI adds tone and pace controls to its multilingual speech model Timbre v3.0Gnani AI introduced Timbre v3.0, enabling businesses to control AI voice parameters like pace and expression. The model supports text-to-sp...
14 Oct, 2026, 01.59 PM IST
Build some, buy some, lock into none: Aditya Birla Capital's Pankaj Gadgil on buying AIGadgil said companies should retain the ability to build their own tools without waiting to recreate solutions available in the market.
14 Oct, 2026, 01.30 PM IST