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OpenAI is expanding its footprint in India and moving into the country’s higher-education system through partnerships with leading academic institutions. The move comes as the South Asian nation seeks to scale AI skills and build domestic capacity in one of the world’s largest talent markets. On Wednesday, OpenAI said it was partnering with six public and private higher-education institutions in India, including top engineering, management, medical, and design-focused institutes, with the aim of reaching more than 100,000 students, faculty, and staff over the next year. Rather than focusing on consumer use, the initiative centers on integrating AI into core academic…
People have long given up on the search for the Fountain of Youth, a mythical spring that could reverse aging. But for some scientists, the hunt has not ended – it’s just moved to a different place. These modern-day Ponce de Leóns are investigating whether gut microbes hold the secret to aging well.The gut microbiome refers to the vast collection of microscopic organisms – bacteria, fungi and viruses – that largely inhabit the colon. These microbes aid in digestion and produce molecules that affect your physiology and psychology. The composition of the microbiome is influenced by a combination of factors,…
Indian AI company Sarvam plans to bring its newly released AI models to users by deploying them on Nokia feature phones, cars and its own smart glasses. The company, backed by the likes of Lightspeed, PeakXV, and Khosla Ventures, said at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi that it is using edge models that take up only megabytes of space, can run on most phones with existing processors, and can work offline. The company is teaming up with HMD to bring a conversational AI assistant to Nokia and HMD phones. A video demo showed a user clicking…
Indian AI lab Sarvam on Tuesday unveiled a new generation of large language models, as it bets that smaller, efficient open-source AI models will be able to grab some market share away from more expensive systems offered by its much larger U.S. and Chinese rivals. The launch, announced at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, aligns with New Delhi’s push to reduce reliance on foreign AI platforms and tailor models to local languages and use cases. Sarvam said the new lineup includes 30-billion and 105-billion parameter models; a text-to-speech model; a speech-to-text model; and a vision model to…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)Feb 18 (Reuters) – A two-in-one mRNA vaccine developed by Moderna that targets seasonal influenza and COVID-19 produced robust and durable immune responses without safety concerns in a small mid-stage trial, the company reported.The experimental vaccine simultaneously includes messenger RNA instructions for the body to build copies of proteins from flu strains and from the original COVID-19 virus, so the immune system can learn to recognize and attack them.The study involved 550 healthy U.S. adults ages 18 to 75 who received either…
Feb 18 (Reuters) – Eli Lilly said on Wednesday its weight-loss drug, Zepbound, used with psoriasis treatment Taltz, showed better results in patients with the skin disease and obesity in a late-stage study, compared to Taltz alone.The drugs showed greater improvement in skin symptoms and weight loss in the study that had 274 patients. About 27.1% of patients who had received Taltz and Zepbound reached complete skin clearance and at least 10% weight loss, compared to 5.8% of patients treated with Taltz alone at 36 weeks, meeting the main goal.Psoriasis is a chronic condition that causes itchy, scaly patches on…
Jake Paul was a firebrand YouTuber. Then he was an NFT merchant, and a betting site operator. Now, Paul is a professional boxer — and venture capitalist. And he’s learning from one of the biggest names in tech.On “Sourcery,” Paul said that he met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman while sitting next to each other at President Donald Trump’s inauguration.”Sam likes fast cars, and so do I,” Paul said. “So, we just started talking about cars, and then we got along, and that was really it.”Paul’s Anti Fund — which is also led by his brother Logan and longtime founder Geoffrey Woo…
An early backer of the prediction market says he’s growing uneasy about its trajectory.Vitalik Buterin, the cofounder of Ethereum and an early investor of prediction market platform Polymarket, warned in a post on X on Tuesday that prediction markets risk devolving into what he called “corposlop,” referring to platforms optimized for addictive, low-value gambling.Buterin said that he is worried about an overreliance on sports betting, short-term crypto price wagers, and other high-dopamine products that drive volume but have little larger social or financial benefit, creating an “over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit.””My guess is that teams feel motivated to…
The recent AI-inspired software meltdown is an enormous overreaction. SaaS companies are going to do just fine. In fact, they might see their businesses boom as a result of AI.After working for decades in the IT and cloud sectors, I know what it takes to build, sell, and maintain complex enterprise software. And it’s clear to me that AI is not the threat that many investors fear. Let’s look at the three main concerns that the market is obsessing over. All of them have shortcomings that will keep established SaaS vendors doing well.Enterprise DIY Software development has been transformed by…
True artificial general intelligence is on the way, but it still has some ways to go, said Google DeepMind’s CEO.Speaking at an AI summit in New Delhi, Demis Hassabis was asked whether current AGI systems can match human intelligence. AGI is a hypothetical form of machine intelligence that can reason like people and solve problems using methods it was not trained in.Hassabis’ short answer: “I don’t think we are there yet.”He listed three areas where current AGI systems are falling short. The first was what he called “continual learning,” saying that the systems are frozen based on the training they…