Developer's Corner
Google Makes Gemini Code Assist Free For Developers
Google’s Gemini Code Assist is powered by the advanced Gemini 2.0 AI model.
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Expansion
Databricks Expands in India with New Bengaluru Office
This move aims to leverage India's thriving software industry and access its vast pool of world-class engineers to enhance the company's growth in the region.
AI Developments
Salesforce and Google Partner to Bring Gemini to Agentforce
Salesforce’s Agentforce will integrate Google’s Gemini models, enabling agents to work with images, audio, and video, and handle more complex tasks with Gemini’s multi-modal capabilities and two-million-token context windows.
AI Developments
Indegene Launches Cortex, A Fit-For-Purpose Generative AI Platform, Verticalised For The Life Sciences Industry
Cortex by Indegene enables life sciences leaders to adopt and scale this transformative technology with enterprise-grade governance.
Datacentre
Microsoft Pulls Back from 200MW Data Center Leases: TD Cowen
TD Cowen attributes Microsoft's pullback to facility and power delays, comparing it to a similar move made by Meta in 2022 when it canceled several data center leases related to the metaverse.
AI Developments
MongoDB Announces Acquisition of Voyage AI to Enable Organisations to Build Trustworthy AI Applications
Voyage AI's advanced embedding and reranking models enable applications to extract meaning from highly specialized and domain-specific text and unstructured data.
Big Tech
Meta to Expand in India with a New Office in Bengaluru; to Hire for AI Roles
The company is also looking to expand its AI infrastructure with additional hardware engineers.
Indian IT
Infosys Plans to Extend $3 bn Daimler Deal and Add AI in Bid for More Revenue
The eight-year contract, signed in December 2020 and known as the ‘Twice as Fast Programme,’ covers six key areas: network, security, SAP basis, data center, workplace, and operations.
AI Startups
Hyderabad-Based CTGT Secures Major Backing from Mark Cuban, Y Combinator to Transform AI Training Efficiency
The startup has $7.2 million in funding.
AI Developments
Indian Government Gets 67 Proposals for Domestic AI Foundational Models
Of the total 67 proposals, 20 proposals have been received for building large language models.
Indian IT
TCS, Salesforce Partner to Boost AI Power in Manufacturing, Semiconductors
The collaboration will leverage the combined industry expertise, AI, and cloud capabilities of TCS and Salesforce
Thomas Cook India and SOTC Travel Launch Dhruv: India’s First Multi-Lingual, Voice-Enabled GenAI Advisor For Business Travel
Dhruv supports multiple Indian languages, providing assistance through chat, messages, and email.