Nvidia Corp. has agreed to a licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq, furthering its investments in companies connected to the AI boom. Groq founder Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia “to help advance and scale licensed technology”. (Bloomberg) As part of the Nvidia-Groq deal, Groq’s Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Ross and […]
Google wants a larger share of India’s digital payments, and isn’t resting on continued domination of Google Pay as one of the dominant UPI, or unified payments interface, players. The tech giant’s foray into the co-branded credit card space, with the Google Pay Flex Axis Bank Credit Card, underlines what has been a rather interesting […]
Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly in talks to spend billions on Google’s Tensor AI chips, which are powering its industry-benchmark Gemini 3 model. Nvidia Corp. shares plunged even as Alphabet Inc.’s shares surged on the news. Google already supplies up to 1 million Tensor chips to Anthropic PBC, in what has been called a “really […]
Alphabet Inc.’s Google and venture capital firm Accel will partner to fund at least 10 early-stage Indian AI startups, in the first such funding partnership involving the search giant. India-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google is investing $15 billion to build a 1 GW AI data centre in India, and is offering Google Gemini for […]
Meta Platforms Inc. is said to partner Nasdaq-listed and India-focused Sify Technologies Ltd. to set up a 500 MW data centre in Visakhapatnam, as global technology firms descend on the east-coast city to tap into India’s insatiable appetite for AI compute. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms will also land its ambitious subsea cable project ‘Waterworth’ at […]
Alphabet Inc.’s Google debuted an updated version of its AI model Gemini that executives said represents a “massive jump” in reasoning and coding ability. As part of the Gemini 3 rollout and in this push for growth, Google will be offering US college students Gemini Pro for free for a year. (Unsplash) The new model, […]
Apple Inc. is preparing to enter the low-cost laptop market for the first time, developing a budget Mac aimed at luring away customers from Chromebooks and entry-level Windows PCs. A much cheaper Macbook that maintains Apple’s design and is embedded in the Walled Garden could spur a new wave of Mac adoption. (Unsplash) The new […]
Apple Inc. is planning to pay about $1 billion a year for an ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter AI model developed by Alphabet Inc.’s Google that would help run its long-promised overhaul of the Siri voice assistant, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Apple and Google are finalising a deal that would give Apple […]
Google has launched a new research moonshot, called ‘Project Suncatcher’, to build AI data centres in space powered by the sun. Google, in partnership with satellite maker Planet Labs, plans to launch two prototype satellites by early 2027 to test the harware in orbit. (AI Image) The idea is to build a constellation of solar-powered […]
Reliance Jio has partnered with Google to offer select 5G users free access to Gemini Pro for 18 months. The plan—priced at ₹35,100—will be available to eligible Jio subscribers aged 18-25 through the MyJio app. The tie-up marks a major move by Reliance Jio and Google to bring advanced AI tools to India’s fast-growing 5G […]
