New Delhi: India’s IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw expressed confidence that the country could develop large language models (LLMs) at a fraction of the cost compared to global competitors, drawing a parallel with India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission. Vaishnaw emphasized India’s success in space exploration, highlighting that the Chandrayaan-2 mission landed on the moon at a fraction of…
Melbourne: Until a few weeks ago, few people in the Western world had heard of a small Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company known as DeepSeek. But on January 20, it captured global attention when it released a new AI model called R1. R1 is a “reasoning” model, meaning it works through tasks step by step…
New York: Billionaire inventor Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and now X (previously Twitter), has regularly shaped the crypto market. His most recent endeavor, Grok AI—a futuristic artificial intelligence meant to offer consumers smart forecasts and recommendations—has weighed in on the crypto market for 2025. With a particular eye toward Dogecoin (DOGE), Solana (SOL), Ripple (XRP), and…
Ranchi: Tata Steel on Wednesday claimed that it has become India’s first steel company to develop pipes for hydrogen transportation, marking a significant milestone in the country’s hydrogen mission. The pipes, processed at Tata Steel’s Khopoli plant using steel manufactured at its Kalinganagar plant, have successfully met all the critical properties required for hydrogen transportation,…
Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation has successfully carried out a demonstration of restarting its Vikas liquid engine at a test facility at Propulsion Complex in Mahendragiri, the space agency said on Saturday. The space agency said the Vikas engine is the workhorse that powers the liquid stages of its launch vehicles. This test on…
New Delhi: Celebrated author Amitav Ghosh warned Tuesday that the top brass in Silicon Valley are preparing for “The Event” — a potential collapse of the global systems — as various interconnected worldwide crises, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and the spread of new pathogens pose a growing threat to the world. Delivering the…
Chennai: Modular toilets, emergency braking system and enhanced design are among the 12 major improvements in the Amrit Bharat Version 2.0 trains and 50 such trains will be manufactured at ICF here over the next two years, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said here on Friday. Vaishnaw, who inspected the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) along with…
Mumbai: In what would be a red letter day for the Indian Navy, two frontline warships Nilgiri and Surat, and submarine Vaghsheer would be commissioned on January 15 adding significantly to the blue water force. This was the first time that two warships and a submarine would be commissioned parallel on the same day. All…
New Delhi: The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has lifted the limit from onboarding UPI users for the third-party app provider WhatsApp Pay with immediate effect. With this development, WhatsApp Pay can now extend UPI services to its entire user base in India, NPCI said in a statement. Previously, NPCI had permitted WhatsApp Pay…
New Delhi: The fourth stage of the PSLV rocket, which will remain in orbit for some time after launching two satellites on Monday, will give an opportunity to start-ups and institutes to carry out experiments in outer space, with India’s space regulator emerging as a common link in turning these projects to reality. A record…
