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
IIT Madras alumni’s Discovered Materials raises $9 million from Lightspeed, YC’s Paul Graham, Peak XVFounded by IIT Madras alumni Advait Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, the company believes today’s AI chips generate heat exceeding 140 watts per s...
10 Aug, 2026, 10.49 PM 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
AI transformation likely to accelerate as companies shift from adoption to enterprise-wide value creation: ReportCompanies are likely to move beyond simply deploying AI tools and increasingly focus on redesigning workflows, operating models and roles t...
09 Aug, 2026, 09.24 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 flags possible critical cybersecurity risk in upcoming model, tightens controlsUnder OpenAI's safety guidelines, a model reaches the "critical" threshold if it can autonomously identify and exploit severe, real-world s...
07 Aug, 2026, 11.25 PM IST
Doximity shares soar 60% after CEO says its AI can outperform AnthropicDoximity shares surged after the healthcare platform highlighted the strong performance of its clinical AI, overshadowing an earnings miss....
07 Aug, 2026, 07.57 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
AMD deepens AI inference bet with Taalas deal as chip race heats upToronto-based Taalas develops specialized silicon designed to reduce computing and memory bottlenecks in AI inference, the process of run...
07 Aug, 2026, 09.13 AM IST
DeepSeek invests $20.8 million in Unitree's Shanghai IPOChinese AI firm DeepSeek invested significantly in robot maker Unitree. They will jointly develop advanced AI models for humanoid robots. T...
06 Aug, 2026, 07.34 PM IST
Govt backs 20 indigenous AI foundation models; 237 projects get subsidised compute supportThe government has identified 20 indigenous foundation model proposals for support under the IndiaAI Mission and approved 237 projects for ...
06 Aug, 2026, 06.01 PM IST
Only 10% of enterprises see measurable hiring gains despite 80% adopting AI: StudyMost organisations use AI in recruitment, yet few see hiring improvements. A new model combines AI with human recruiters for better efficie...
06 Aug, 2026, 04.47 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
Business outcomes, not AI models, will decide enterprise deals: Gnani.ai CEO Ganesh GopalanIn an interview with the Economic Times, Gnani.ai CEO Ganesh Gopalan said the biggest challenge to enterprise AI adoption was not other AI ...
05 Aug, 2026, 11.37 AM IST
Qwen 3.8-Max launches with 2.4 trillion parameters. Don't trust the benchmarks just yetAlibaba launched its large AI model Qwen3.8-Max with many parameters. This model supports extensive context windows and multimodal inputs f...
04 Aug, 2026, 12.30 PM IST