Government gets bids offering 18,000 GPUs in Round-2 of IndiaAI Mission tenderIn the second round of IndiaAI’s GPU tender, bids offering 18,000 GPUs were received, with 15,000 expected to qualify. Seven firms are shor...
13 May, 2025, 07.10 AM IST
Microsoft president says company respects European laws amid US criticismMicrosoft President Brad Smith affirmed the company’s respect for EU laws, including the Digital Markets Act, distancing it from US critici...
30 Apr, 2025, 06.10 PM IST
AI Mission GPU tender bidders get two more days to match L1 ratesThe IndiaAI Mission extended the GPU tender deadline to February 14. Some bidders matched L1 rates, while others raised concerns over prici...
13 Feb, 2025, 11.05 AM IST
Small companies can now chase India's giant AI dreamsSunil Gupta, chief executive of Yotta Data Services, which has placed a purchase order of 16,000 H100 GPUs from Nvidia and went live with 4...
28 Sep, 2024, 05.03 PM IST
Firms scramble to build consortiums to be eligible for Rs 10,000-crore GPU planSmall and medium companies are racing to form partnerships with peers and cloud service providers to become eligible for the massive Rs 10,...
11 Sep, 2024, 08.20 AM IST
Governments say ‘aye’ to sovereign AIA pre-bid meeting hosted by the IT ministry saw participation from heavyweights like Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Go...
03 Sep, 2024, 12.08 PM IST
Global giants take AIm at India’s GPU ambitionNvidia, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks were among parti...
31 Aug, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
Chinese entities turn to Amazon cloud and its rivals to access high-end US chips, AIThe US government has restricted the export of high-end AI chips to China over the past two years, citing the need to limit the Chinese mil...
23 Aug, 2024, 10.35 AM IST
Salesforce CEO offers jobs to any OpenAI researcher who has quitMore than 500 employees of the AI startup, including chief technology officer Mira Murati and chief scientist and cofounder Ilya Sutskever,...
21 Nov, 2023, 10.57 AM IST
China rushes to swap Western tech with domestic options as US cracks downChina is increasing its spending on domestic technology to replace Western-made products as the US tightens restrictions on high-tech expor...
26 Oct, 2023, 11.14 AM IST
Software localisation harder than it seemsSoftware companies have a point in asking GoI for changes to local value addition rules for public procurement. Software value chains are t...
22 Aug, 2023, 10.52 PM IST
NIC is yet to pick the winners of National Government Cloud bidExplaining the need for a government cloud, the NIC Services Incorporated (NICSI) said in the tender document, "Misuse of sensitive data su...
06 Apr, 2023, 06.11 AM IST
Crypto Week At A Glance: Bitcoin range-bound at $19K as US CPI data sparks volatilityThe total crypto market cap is now near $900 billion. The market will likely be range bound till November 2, the day the US Fed announces a...
16 Oct, 2022, 10.43 AM IST
Software, cloud companies seek easier bidding rules for govt contractsThe Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) had in September last year mandated that government departments and min...
12 Aug, 2021, 06.00 AM IST
KKR invests $500 million in cloud storage firm Box, gets board seatDemand for Box's offerings including file sharing, cloud storage and cloud backup services have risen during the Covid-19 pandemic as emplo...
09 Apr, 2021, 10.08 AM IST
AMD says India has become its biggest PC chip marketAMD is targeting the commercial PC market with its Ryzen Pro chipsets where customers can buy commercial PCs from vendors such as HP, Dell ...
30 Aug, 2018, 09.52 AM IST
GoDaddy's India MD Rajiv Sodhi quits, joins MicrosoftSodhi is an old timer at Microsoft where he was earlier the Director - India SMB, Cloud and Software Sales. He had been at Microsoft betwee...
28 Nov, 2016, 10.10 AM IST