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Baidu to make latest Ernie AI model open-source as competition heats up

Keen to increase market share, Baidu also announced that it would make its AI chatbot Ernie Bot free starting April 1, about a year and a half after introducing premium versions

India's data for AI paves way for global cooperation after Paris Summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's clarion call at the Paris AI Action Summit 2025, for open and unbiased datasets set the tone for the CPRG-AI4India panel discussions held at the premier French University, Ecole Normale Superieure.The discussions on the theme of 'Data for Development' brought together heads of state, industry leaders, academics, and civil society members to deliberate on harnessing AI for the public good, with a focus on sustainability, global partnerships, and workforce development.Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, with responsibilities of Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies, Cyber Security and Digital Skilling, played a crucial role in stirring up the conversation around Data development in Global South.Singh called for "the Global South to assert leadership over its data assets while fostering equitable global collaboration." In his remarks focused on data governance's ...

OpenAI shares plans for GPT-4.5, GPT-5 AI models: All you need to know

OpenAI's Sam Altman said that the company aims to unify its AI capabilities into a single, more advanced system with the GPT-5 model

Best of BS Opinion: A Carpe Diem moment for Indian policymakers

The rapid growth of AI, success of mobile phone manufacturing, the index for states' fiscal health and labour shortages all point to opportunities for policymakers

Baidu likely to release next-generation AI model 'Ernie 5' this year

The new model, Ernie 5, will feature multimodal capabilities enabling it to process and convert between different formats including text, video, images and audio

India's 'Data for Development' takes centre stage at AI Summit in Paris

At the AI Action Summit Paris 2025, AI4India and the Center for Policy Research and Governance (CPRG) will co-host a pivotal panel discussion, 'Data for Development: Building AI in the Global South'

PM Modi to visit France, co-chair AI summit with Macron on Monday

PM Modi, France visit, AI Summit, Emmanuel Macron, India-France relations, CEOs forum, Strategic Partnership, India-France defence, AI Action Summit, France visit February 2024

Best of BS Opinion: How AI, trade, and immigration generate conflict

From the use of AI in the military, to its use to generate unrest, from illegal human trafficking leading to conflict between allies, our columns today deal with the idea conflict

Instagram shows AI generated image option in Stories in India: How it works

With the new feature, Instagram users in India can prompt Meta AI to generate an image which can be shared on Stories

Google rolls out new Gemini 2.0 AI models: What's new for users, developers

Google is also bringing its experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking mode to the Gemini app, offering improved reasoning capabilities

What's OmniHuman-1, AI that transforms a single image into lifelike video?

This AI framework is designed to generate lifelike human motion and speech from minimal input-just an image and an audio sample-solving a key challenge in AI-driven video creation

India key market for AI, must be among leaders of AI revolution: Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday said that the country is important for Artificial Intelligence and OpenAI, and added that India - with its full stack model - should be among the leaders of the AI revolution. Altman, during a fireside chat with IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, said OpenAI tripled its users here in the last year. He gave a ringing endorsement to India's efforts in building on AI at all levels of the stack, chips, models and "the incredible applications". "India is an incredibly important market for AI in general, for open AI in particular, it's our second biggest market. Tripled users here in the last year, but mostly seeing what people in India are building with AI at all levels of the stack, chips, models, you know, all of the incredible applications," Altman, who is on a whirlwind India tour, said. Altman advocated India to go all out in its AI play. "I think India should be one of the leaders of the AI revolution. But it's really quite amazing to see what the ...

Australia bans China's DeepSeek from government tech over security

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in a statement that all DeepSeek products, applications and services would be removed from government systems on national security concerns

OpenAI's 'Deep Research' can be your agentic AI research analyst: Details

OpenAI's Deep Research AI agent can analyse and interpret text, images, and PDFs on the internet to generate a comprehensive report on a topic

OpenAI releases AI agent 'Deep Research' designed to act like analyst

The service, called Deep Research, will be available to certain paying customers through OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot online, the company said in a blog post

Microsoft brings OpenAI's o1 model to Copilot for free-tier users: Details

Copilot AI chatbot is getting OpenAI's o1 reasoning model-powered Think Deeper feature for reasoning through more complex queries, make suggestions, draw comparisons between two options

US probably looking into whether DeepSeek used restricted AI chips

In the US, DeepSeek's accomplishments sparked accusations that it had improperly accessed technology from OpenAI and other leaders, though the allegations remain unproved

India's foundation artificial intelligence model in 8-10 months: Vaishnaw

The foundational models are being developed under the Rs 10,372-crore India AI mission, which was approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2024

DeepSeek to Llama: Open-source AI models and how to run them on local PCs

China's DeepSeek is a new entrant in artificial intelligence, offering open-source models that can run efficiently on personal computers

Smartphone AI apps now a $2 billion market led by OpenAI's ChatGPT

Among other notable findings in the report, more than half of ChatGPT's mobile users are aged between 18 and 24, and the vast majority of AI users are male. Revenue across various categories of AI app