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Nadella is currently touring India as part of the Microsoft AI Tour, where he will be speaking in Bengaluru on January 7, 2025, and in New Delhi on January 8, 2025.
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Nadella is currently touring India as part of the Microsoft AI Tour, where he will be speaking in Bengaluru on January 7, 2025, and in New Delhi on January 8, 2025.
India, being one of the global leaders in adopting generative AI, is a key market for Microsoft.
Microsoft suggests that OpenAI’s o1 Mini and GPT 4o Mini consist of 100 billion and 8 billion parameters, respectively.
A few months ago, the Telangana government signed MoUs with major big tech companies including OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA and AWS.

Only when OpenAI’s systems generate maximum profits, the company would have achieved AGI.
As per reports, the company is working on adding non-OpenAI models into Copilot products.

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‘Ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing’ isn’t free from challenges, though.

“This is the best news for Microsoft shareholders—that we lost so badly that we can now go contest it and win back some share.”
Microsoft said that synthetic data serves as a more effective mechanism for the model’s learning by using structured, diverse and nuanced datasets.

It offers performance comparable to multiple leading large language models.
In September, AWS selected seven Indian generative AI startups for their accelerator program that received $1M in AWS credits.
“Each data centre will avoid using 125 million litres of water annually,” says Mustafa Suleyman, CEO at Microsoft AI.

The AI assistant ‘Sukjai’ is built using NVIDIA AI for the Tourism Authority of Thailand and will support Thai and English languages.
Similar to Copilot Vision, OpenAI is set to launch its agent, Operator, in January.
Microsoft, Amazon, and other tech giants are shaping a future where AI powers every app, offering tools to build the next generation—while ensuring you play by their rules.
Microsoft aims to use quantum computing to address complex problems that are currently impractical for classical computers.
In the race to power AI applications, inference chips are the unsung heroes driving real-time decisions, from chatbots to recommendation engines
This positions Nokia as a strategic supplier for Microsoft’s worldwide cloud infrastructure.
“Inference is super hard,” says Jensen Huang.
The adoption of Microsoft Fabric includes 70% of the Fortune 500, reinforcing its dominance in enterprise data management.
More than just tools for automation, Microsoft’s AI agents potentially embody a philosophy of personalisation and proactivity.

“This sets the foundation for the world’s most powerful quantum machines,” says Satya Nadella.
This new feature will be available in a public preview next month.

Nearly 70% of Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Satya Nadella and co. are going all in on security focused updates at Microsoft’s latest event.
A decade ago, Microsoft had shut down its robotics team.

Satya Nadella shows how to stay relevant in the age of AI.
All major tech companies including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Reliance have their own AI acceleration programs.
Many companies are working towards advancing the AI field by offering open-source frameworks.
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