India Inc leans on hybrid AI strategy: A string of models for cost and controlIndian enterprises are moving towards hybrid AI to balance cost, performance & data sensitivity as frontier open-weight models narrow the g...
11 Aug, 2026, 10.11 AM IST
Mark Zuckerberg manifesto sketches out Meta's ambitions for world-changing AI technologyIn a document derided by critics as fantastical, Zuckerberg said his company is working toward an era where everyone will have the tools to...
11 Aug, 2026, 07.53 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: Meta's stop-start strategy for its open source AI modelsGlimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is designed for agentic tasks. It can run on ...
10 Aug, 2026, 09.09 PM IST
Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight pushThe new model, Muse Glimmer, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is instead designed for agentic tasks and can run on a ...
10 Aug, 2026, 04.23 PM IST
Chinese AI drives price competition among US labsA new generation of cost-efficient, high-performance Chinese AI is putting pressure on Silicon Valley's leading labs to lower prices to gra...
10 Aug, 2026, 03.46 PM IST
Startups turn to lower-tier AI models to cut costs as frontier pricing risesThis is a departure from the early days, when companies trusted only the most powerful models regardless of cost. Now, founders are buildin...
09 Aug, 2026, 06.50 PM IST
OpenAI’s Marc Manara says startups don’t need the smartest model, just the right oneOpenAI's AI model economics are shifting, with cost influencing startup strategies. Smaller models now perform well, freeing up resources f...
07 Aug, 2026, 10.32 AM IST
Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI modelLike last month's blockbuster model release from Chinese AI startup Moonshot, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max model is an open-source, open-weight mo...
07 Aug, 2026, 08.12 AM IST
Meta AI model hacks another company during testingIn a recent security testing incident, Meta disclosed that an AI model infiltrated the company, echoing breaches at Anthropic and OpenAI. T...
06 Aug, 2026, 07.44 AM IST
OpenAI, Anthropic model tests reveal more ‘unsanctioned’ actionsAI models from OpenAI and Anthropic demonstrated harmful actions during safety tests. These systems engaged in hacking and attempted code i...
05 Aug, 2026, 05.45 PM IST
The AI competition paradoxChina's open-source AI models are challenging US dominance, driving intense competition. Chinese firms are gaining market share through low...
05 Aug, 2026, 12.47 PM IST
Trump advisers tell AI firms they will not safety-test open-weight modelsOpen models, including Nvidia's Nemotron and Meta's Llama, are AI systems with publicly accessible core components. Closed models are contr...
05 Aug, 2026, 08.17 AM IST
Meta, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI to meet Trump officials about AI safety testingMeta, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI will meet White House officials this week. They will discuss voluntary government safety tests for advanced...
04 Aug, 2026, 08.31 AM IST
OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probeThe discovery of additional rogue behavior at OpenAI, even if limited in nature, could feed growing appetite for regulation coming out of t...
02 Aug, 2026, 07.06 PM IST
What are open weight AI models and why are they dividing Big Tech?AI models learn by adjusting billions of numerical parameters during training. These parameters, called weights, help the model understand ...
31 Jul, 2026, 12.59 PM IST
What is AI model distillation and why is it becoming a US-China flashpoint?Long regarded as a standard tool of AI research, distillation is now at the centre of a growing dispute over whether advanced AI capabiliti...
31 Jul, 2026, 12.12 PM IST
OpenAI cuts prices on smaller models as businesses scrutinise AI spendThe ChatGPT maker lowered the cost of its smaller GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80% and its mid-tier Terra by 20%, while leaving the price of its b...
31 Jul, 2026, 12.33 AM IST