Amazon shakes up AI team as veteran Prasad leaves, DeSantis promotedAmazon is reshaping its AI leadership as it pushes harder to compete with major tech rivals. Veteran cloud chief Peter DeSantis will overse...
18 Dec, 2025, 07.52 AM IST
What exactly are AI companies trying to build? Here's a guide.OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, anticipates spending trillions on AI development, including data center construction, despite potential economic ...
17 Sep, 2025, 09.40 AM IST
Amazon to launch new AI reasoning model 'Nova' this year to take on Meta AI, ChatGPT and Google's Gemini: 10 pointsE-commerce giant Amazon is building its own artificial intelligence model that could compete with more established offerings from firms lik...
04 Mar, 2025, 08.37 PM IST
Amazon set to release long-delayed Alexa generative AI revampOnce released, it would mark the most significant upgrade to the product since its initial introduction accelerated a wave of digital assis...
06 Feb, 2025, 07.31 AM IST
From Ashwini Vaishnaw to Anil Kapoor: Indians in the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI 2024 ListTIME Magazine has unveiled its 'TIME100 Most Influential People in AI 2024' list, featuring several Indians. Notable names include Sundar P...
05 Sep, 2024, 11.06 PM IST
FTC seeking details on Amazon deal with AI startup AdeptThe FTC is investigating Amazon’s hiring of Adept's David Luan amid AI competition with Google and Microsoft, following a January inquiry. ...
16 Jul, 2024, 08.48 PM IST
Amazon lures cofounders from startup Adept to bolster AI effortsCollaborating with Rohit Prasad, I contribute to Amazon's AI advancements under CEO Andy Jassy's leadership. The tech industry closely watc...
29 Jun, 2024, 09.26 AM IST
CCPA issues notice to Amazon for selling sweets under 'Shri Ram Mandir Ayodhya Prasad'The CCPA has sought a response from Amazon within seven days from the issuance of notice, failing which necessary action will be initiated ...
19 Jan, 2024, 09.58 PM IST
Amazon dedicates team to train ambitious AI model codenamed 'Olympus'The model, codenamed as "Olympus", has 2 trillion parameters, the people said, which could make it one of the largest models being trained....
08 Nov, 2023, 02.34 PM IST
Amazon's Alexa can make memories last, will soon mimic voice of late family membersThe feature was unveiled at Amazon's Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas.
24 Jun, 2022, 02.05 PM IST
Amazon has a plan to make Alexa mimic anyone's voiceThe online retailer is developing a system to let Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, said Rohit Prasad, an Am...
23 Jun, 2022, 07.57 AM IST
Amazon, Google rush to navigate India's local language landscapeThe technology giants are working on understanding how Indians speak, as they push their AI-powered voice assistants deeper in the Indian m...
14 Aug, 2021, 05.41 PM IST
Festive-ready: Amazon Alexa will now listen to commands in Hindi, HinglishUsers can interact with Alexa in different regional variants of colloquial Hindi.
18 Sep, 2019, 06.10 PM IST
Meet a new generation of rising stars of the Indian diaspora making a mark in diverse fields around the worldTogether, they are the single biggest remittance group — sending $80 billion home in 2018 alone.
14 Jul, 2019, 08.44 PM IST
Jeff Bezos aims for moon as Amazon dominates earthAmazon has been flirting with a trillion-dollar market cap, but Bezos isn’t resting on dominating earth.
08 Jun, 2019, 11.46 AM IST
Meet Rohit Prasad: The engineer from Ranchi behind AlexaRohit Prasad was ranked No. 9 in Fast Company's 100 most creative people in business in 2017.
23 Jul, 2018, 03.42 PM IST
How Snapdeal is determined to go where most ecommerce giants like Flipkart have never beenThe online marketplace is in a hurry to grow — online and offline — as well as to get into the black. Here’s how its founders plan to do it.
11 Jan, 2016, 01.07 PM IST