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Tech giant Microsoft is developing its own AI models, which may be offered to developers, according to the report by The Information. Microsoft’s GitHub unit has already introduced models from Anthropic and Google as alternatives to OpenAI’s GPT-4o ...

The 20-month-old startup that rattled Silicon Valley with its innovative and inexpensive approach to building AI models, said on X its V3 and R1 models’ cost of inferencing to sales during a 24-hour-period on the last day of February put profit marg...

This is the first time the Hangzhou-based company has shared details about its profit margins from less computationally demanding "inference" tasks. These tasks, which come after training, involve AI models making predictions or carrying out tasks, ...

Hiring has become challenging as AI reshapes the landscape. AI is not just improving the hiring process but forcing companies to prioritize skills over credentials. Human abilities like communication and creativity now hold more value. Organizations...

Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which comes after Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Anthropic's family of models, is an ordinary LLM and a reasoning model rolled into one. Some commentators and early testers on X called the model “amazing for programming” and “the best codin...

OpenAI launched "deep research" in ChatGPT for complex online research and o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model. These releases follow the emergence of DeepSeek R1, signaling a race for cheaper, efficient AI.

Global capability centers are creating internship opportunities for students seeking industry exposure. Key skills required include programming, cloud platforms, and cybersecurity basics. Certifications and project-based experience enhance employabi...

DeepSeek last week launched a free AI assistant that it says uses less data at a fraction of the cost of incumbent services. By Monday, the assistant had overtaken U.S. rival ChatGPT in downloads from Apple's App Store, sparking panic among tech sto...

Jay Chaudhry, CEO of Zscaler, warns about AI's potential misuse by hackers to exploit vulnerabilities rapidly. He stresses the urgency for IT departments to adopt emerging technologies for security. He highlights the critical need for enterprises to...

Generative AI (GenAI) is projected to deliver savings of 20-40% in the software development lifecycle, with those savings being reinvested into further tech innovations. Axis Capital's report highlights that such efficiencies will neither reduce tec...

The nearly 3-year-old startup Anysphere is now valued at $2.5 billion following a new funding round led by Thrive Capital, which previously backed OpenAI and Databricks, and Andreessen Horowitz, that is another existing backer. The surge in AI inves...

Satya Nadella, Microsoft chairman and CEO, was happy to hear that the 6,000 students at Manipal Academy for Higher Education were using GitHub Copilot, the company's AI-based code completion tool. He also expressed his desire to visit his alma mater...

Satya Nadella emphasises the importance of leveraging India's human capital for global competitiveness and the widespread adoption of AI technology. He highlights the rapid diffusion of technology globally and underscores the role of Microsoft’s inv...

Microsoft announced a $3 billion investment in India to strengthen AI and cloud infrastructure. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.

This comes a day after Nadella met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to discuss tech innovation and AI, pledging support to position India as an AI-first nation. The tech major already has three data centre regions in the market and the four...

A tech expert earning $160,000 shared job-seeking advice in a viral video. The expert recommends contributing to GitHub projects. This can lead to recognition in the tech community. The video received over 600,000 views. Commenters discussed the val...

Open-source software development platform GitHub on Tuesday said it has made its developer platform available in India to help boost the startup ecosystem.

Isolated from the mainstream world, GitHub is where developers find validation and a means to express themselves in the language(s) they know best

The idea behind opening an India office is to better serve the developer community and GitHub’s enterprise customers in the country. GitHub's community of developers in India is growing at a rate of 22% over the past year.