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Vibe-coding apps gun for Indian geek love
Cursor, OpenAI and Anthropic are turning up the heat in the race to win India’s fast-growing tribe of AI builders, writes Swathi Moorthy. The push comes amid rapid adoption of AI by Indian enterprises and startups. As companies look to improve productivity, the use of AI tools has risen over the past two years.
Fable 5 shock puts sovereign AI back on India’s agenda
US export controls on advanced AI models have spurred India's call for sovereign AI development. Industry leaders warn against reliance on foreign providers, urging a national mission for indigenous AI capabilities, similar to UPI and Aadhaar, to secure India's technological future and support local startups.
Why are founders flocking to OpenClaw?
There is a mad rush in India to adopt OpenClaw as enthusiasts organise meetups and buildathons; but some key security concerns remain. Swathi Moorthy decodes the new AI mania.
AI agents’ social network becomes talk of the town
Moltbook, a new social network for AI agents, has exploded in popularity, attracting around a million bots within hours. Inspired by Reddit, the text-heavy platform lets AI discuss philosophy, stories and even emotions, delighting some researchers. Others warn it is chaotic, filled with crypto promotion and hype.
Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.
Operation coding war, thanks AI
So, everyone's scrambling for a slice of the AI coding agent action! Swathi Moorthy's taking a look at the tech titans duking it out to dominate software development. With AI coders becoming super popular, these giants are battling to create the best tools for automating code.
Experts make a new case for open-source path to Indian LLMs
This debate, which has been brewing in the community, has come up after Sarvam AI was selected to build the country’s indigenous large language model under the IndiaAI Mission. The company was given access to close to 4,100 Nvidia H100 graphic processing units, and six months to build the model.
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