New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, on Thursday said that with the ‘OpenAI for India’ initiative, they are working together to build the infrastructure, skills and local partnerships needed to build “AI with India, for India, and in India”.At the ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’ here, the US-based ChatGPT maker launched the nationwide initiative with leading Indian partners to expand access to AI and unlock its economic and societal benefits in the world’s largest democrac…
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New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Digital rights activist and tech policy commentator Nikhil Pahwa on Wednesday described the ongoing India AI Summit as a “transformational moment”, saying the event could significantly accelerate artificial intelligence adoption across governance, industry and academia in the country.In a series of posts on X, the founder of MediaNama said that even if such large summits face organisational or agenda-related shortcomings, the scale of government attention ensures AI beco…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Sam Altman-run OpenAI has removed access to GPT-4o AI model in its ChatGPT app — a move which has left several users worldwide, especially in China, mourning the loss, as they treat their chatbot as an “emotional or romantic companion”, according to a report in Wired.In August 2025, OpenAI first tried to retire GPT-4o, the specific model that helps many users believe is “more affectionate and understanding than its successors”. The decision to pull the plug was…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) India is set to take a major step in artificial intelligence with the launch of PARAM-2, a 17-billion-parameter multilingual AI model, at the upcoming India AI Impact Summit 2026. Developed under the BharatGen programme, PARAM-2 represents India’s push to build its own sovereign foundational AI models designed specifically for the country’s languages, governance needs and cultural realities.BharatGen is India’s national generative AI initiative, supported by the De…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) In a major endorsement of India’s growing role in artificial intelligence, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has described India as a potential “full-stack AI leader” and announced plans to expand the company’s presence and partnerships in the country. His remarks come ahead of the Global AI Impact Summit 2026, which begins on February 16 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.In a media article, Altman said India has become OpenAI’s second-largest user base globally, after …
Washington, Feb 15 (IANS) As India prepares to host the AI Impact Summit next week, Jeff Cotten, President and CEO at AI-powered SaaS solutions provider PROS, said India must invest more aggressively in infrastructure to compete with rivals, especially China.“China very much has decided to focus on platforms, and they are trying to be the world’s platform for AI,” Cotten told IANS in an interview.Cotten said the key question for India is whether it will “really invest in capital infrastruc…
Mumbai, Feb 9 (IANS) Bengaluru‑based startup Sarvam AI has claimed that its latest vision and speech models have outperformed larger global rivals Google Gemini and ChatGPT on key optical character recognition and text‑to‑speech benchmarks for Indian languages.In a post on X, Sarvam AI’s co‑founder Pratyush Kumar said, “Sarvam Vision achieves state-of-the-art accuracy of 84.3 per cent on the olmOCR-Bench (English only subset) outperforming frontier models like Gemini 3 Pro and recent OCR…
London, Feb 2 (IANS) A British think tank has raised concerns about the health of the artificial intelligence (AI) news environment, calling for the government’s engagement in fostering rules, including fair payment and transparent source disclosure for AI-generated news. In a report released this week, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said that AI tools are rapidly becoming the primary gateway through which the public accesses news, fundamentally reshaping the news ecosystem.Howe…
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Tech giant OpenAI has reportedly announced plans to introduce advertising in ChatGPT in the United States, placing ads on the free version and the low‑cost Go subscription while exempting Pro, Business and Enterprise users.OpenAI said that advertisements will be clearly separated from chatbot responses, will not influence outputs, and that it will not sell user conversations, according to multiple reports.The company also pledged to let users turn off personalised ads …
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Tesla CEO and founder of AI firm xAI Elon Musk has asked a US federal court to award him $79 billion to $134 billion in damages, alleging that OpenAI and Microsoft defrauded him by abandoning OpenAI’s nonprofit mission and partnering with the software giant.Musk’s lawyers filed the damages request a day after a judge denied OpenAI and Microsoft’s final bid to avoid a jury trial scheduled for late April in Oakland, California, according to multiple reports.The filin…