Y Combinator Accepting Applications for Its First-Ever Spring Batch
Y Combinator (YC), the San Francisco-based startup accelerator, is now accepting applications for its first-ever Spring 2025 batch. The deadline to apply is Feb 11, 2025, at 8 pm PT. Applicants will...
View ArticleNow Might Be the Best Time for Indian IPOs
The Indian IPO market is witnessing a significant upswing, with several companies preparing to go public in 2025. The lineup includes Swiggy, Ather Energy, Reliance Jio, OfBusiness, Hexaware...
View ArticleCtrlS Announces 40-Acre Datacenter Park Near Hyderabad
CtrlS Datacenters, Asia’s largest rated-4 data centre company, on Monday revealed its plans to build a massive datacenter park on a 40-acre site at Chandanvelly Industrial Park near Hyderabad. The...
View ArticleFrench AI Lab Mistral Sets Sights on IPO
French AI startup Mistral AI is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO), co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch announced during an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum (WEF). “We’re...
View ArticleLinkedIn Appoints Deepak Agarwal as Chief AI Officer
LinkedIn has appointed Deepak Agarwal as its chief AI officer in an effort to strengthen its ongoing commitment to AI-driven innovation. Agarwal has over 24 years of experience in engineering and AI...
View ArticleTrump Unleashes AI’s Manhattan Project – Trillions Secured on Day One
Much like former US President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Manhattan Project in 1942, which reshaped global power by accelerating the nuclear arms race, US President Donald Trump has paved the way for...
View ArticlePerplexity Launches the ‘Most Affordable’ GenAI Search API
On Wednesday, Perplexity launched its official API, Sonar, which will help developers integrate its real-time web search capabilities into their products. The AI search engine startup unveiled two...
View ArticleKanye West Now Plans to Build an AI Dream Team for Yeezy
American rapper Kanye West is reportedly hiring AI talent for his creative brand Yeezy. The roles include AI engineers, film editors, architects, designers, and studio assistants. The announcement...
View ArticleGoogle Invests $1 Bn in Anthropic
Tech giant Google is reportedly investing over $1 billion in Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude language models. This new investment is separate from the company’s earlier reported funding...
View ArticleAI and India’s Developer Surge Will Spark Innovation in 2025
India’s developer community reached new heights in 2024, both in terms of growth and innovation. The number of developers on GitHub in India surpassed 17 million, which is more than the entire...
View Article‘Replit is So Good at Generating Apps’ – Is it Time to Ditch Figma?
Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator and a renowned venture capitalist, recently said he encountered a CEO of a “moderately big tech company” who replaced the design tool Figma with Replit, an AI...
View ArticlePerplexity CEO is ‘Ready to Invest $1 Million, and 5 Hours/Week’ to Make...
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, in a post on X, expressed his support for the development of AI in India. “I am ready to invest $1 mn personally and 5 hours per week of my time into the most...
View ArticleWhy AI Will Take Centre Stage in Union Budget 2025
With the Union Budget 2025 just around the corner, speculations and discussions are rife about who stands to benefit and what allocations will be made. While finance is obviously the big picture,...
View ArticleWhat Makes DeepSeek So Special
Without drawing attention, DeepSeek has made it clear that the company means business. The China-based AI research lab recently released its new models, DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero. The models...
View ArticleIndia IT Focuses on AI While Headcount Declines
With attrition hitting 13%, India’s largest IT firm, TCS, reported a net decrease of 5,370 employees in Q3 FY25, bringing its total workforce to 607,354. This decline follows two consecutive quarters...
View ArticleAWS to Invest $8.3 Billion in Cloud Infrastructure in Maharashtra by 2030
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a $8.3 billion investment in cloud infrastructure in Maharashtra as part of its AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region expansion. The announcement is part of AWS’s...
View ArticleThis Bengaluru AI Startup Could Change How Your Car Thinks
Talking to your car isn’t a new concept anymore. Voice assistants like Google Assistant and Siri made this possible years ago. Now, an Indian AI agentic assistant is taking this innovation to the next...
View ArticleRobotics Startup Ati Motors Raises $20 Million in Series B Funding
Bengaluru-based industrial robotics startup Ati Motors has secured $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Walden Catalyst Ventures and NGP Capital. This investment brings the company’s total...
View ArticleWill India’s Semiconductor Dreams Get a Boost Under the New US Govt?
India is stepping up efforts to secure access to advanced AI chips as the US transitions from former US President Joe Biden to President Donald Trump, seeking revisions to restrictive export policies....
View ArticleDatabricks Secures $15.3 Billion in Financing
Databricks has closed $15.3 billion in financing, valuing the company at $62 billion. JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley led the financing, which included $10 billion in...
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