Google and Meta release new AI models nearly two years after Moonshot's Kimi K3 launch, intensifying competition and highlighting persistent demand for open-weight models among US users.
Larsen & Toubro's Vyoma.AI secures a Rs 10,000-15,000 crore order for India's largest Nvidia B300 AI factory while planning a rare-earth magnet plant, revealing a strategic focus on core national infrastructure.
New SraVaani-1.0 ASR model, built on FastConformer, supports 65 Indian languages and dialects, trained on 31,255 hours of speech from the VAANI corpus, addressing a critical gap in inclusive speech recognition.
SurakshaEval is a new human-written safety benchmark for ten Indian languages and English, addressing cultural nuances and identifying recurring LLM safety failures.
SK Hynix commits $38 billion to DRAM production for AI in Korea, while a former employee is jailed for leaking CMOS image sensor tech, highlighting dual industry challenges.
Apple integrates Alibaba's Qwen AI for Mac users in China, enhancing Siri and Writing Tools. This move, alongside Alibaba's plan to charge big users for future open-source AI models, reveals a dual strategy for market penetration and revenue.
Apple integrates Chinese chips and Alibaba AI for its China market, while battling OpenAI in a trade secrets lawsuit over devices and former Apple designer Jony Ive's new hardware.