The creator economy’s ad revenue problem and India’s AI ambitions

The creator economy is evolving fast, and ad revenue alone isn’t cutting it anymore. YouTubers are launching product lines, acquiring startups, and building actual business empires. In fact, MrBeast&#8…

OpenAI says 18 to 24-year-olds account for nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage in India

The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age account for nearly 50% of all messages sent by Indians to ChatGPT, and users under 30 accounted for 80% of usage in the country.

UAE’s G42 teams up with Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of compute in India

Abu Dhabi-based tech company G42 has partnered with U.S.-based chipmaker Cerebras to deploy eight exaflops of compute through a new system in India

General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years

The pledge marks a sharp jump from General Catalyst’s earlier $500 million–$1 billion India earmark.

Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India’s big AI summit

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers at the event to join hands and raise them in a show of unity, all executives on stage obliged, except OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, who held their hands conspicuously apart.

India’s Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars and smart glasses

The company is using edge models that take up only megabytes of space, can run on most phones with existing processors, and can work offline.

Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open-source AI

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 parse documents.