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Four-year-old agricultural AI startup Kissan AI’s founder Pratik Desai last month unveiled Dhenu 1.0, a seven billion parameter large language model for agriculture.Named after Kamadhenu, a divine bovine-goddess described in Hinduism as the mother of all cows, the model is trained on high-quality conversational datasets, specially focused on Indian agriculture practices. Dhenu is an agricultural LLM specifically designed to help Indian farmers with agriculture-related questions.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value…

The British government tolerates the Kurds right now. No longer are they consigned by the pens of our diplomats and mandarins to the middens of geopolitics. They excel at killing Islamic State fighters, they keep a lid on the grander imperial daydreams of Mr Erdoğan, they give women equal-ish rights and AK47s. At least here, the Foreign Office can say, Brylcreemed Blairite liberal interventionism worked out all right. No more Halabjas. Drilling rights for British oil. Splendid.“When it comes to Kurds, the brightest minds…

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani urged the employees of Reliance Industries Ltd. to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) transformation across all businesses in 2024 as the oil-to-retail conglomerate seeks to stay ahead of rivals in deploying advanced technologies. “We need to be at forefront of using data, with AI as an enabler for achieving a quantum jump in productivity and efficiency,” Asia's richest man told Reliance employees Thursday at an event marking the 91st birth anniversary of the company's late founder…

India will launch an artificial intelligence (AI) mission to augment its computing power capacity so that small companies and startups get the required help, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.“The aim of this mission will be to establish sufficient AI compute power in the country. This will help India’s innovators and startups get better facilities. Under this mission, AI applications in agriculture, healthcare and education-related sectors will be promoted,” Modi said at the inaugural session of the Global Partnership on…

Drone maker Garuda Aerospace will collaborate with Goa's Department of Agriculture to conduct a drone yatra, an initiative boosting the usage of drones in this sector. The company in a statement said that the Goa Agriculture Department has invited them to collaborate in conducting the initiative of the Drone Yatra aiming to create awareness and promote the adoption of drone technology in agriculture. "This collaboration signifies a joint commitment to harnessing cutting-edge technology for the betterment of agricultural…

Agri drone manufacturer IoTechWorld Avigation is targeting to sell 3,000 drones this fiscal, a six-fold jump from the previous year, on rising demand mainly from agrochemical firms and agriculture universities. Startup IoTechWorld, which was founded in 2017 by Deepak Bhardwaj and Anoop Upadhyay, has a manufacturing facility in Gurugram. It sells agri drones at about Rs 7.5 lakh plus GST. Agrochemical player Dhanuka Agritech in 2021 announced an investment of Rs 30 crore in IoTechWorld for a minority stake. "We sold around…

Ecochoice Naturals, a Bengaluru-based agricultural startup, has launched a mobile application with the Centre for Sustainable development to connect organic farmers with institutional buyers. The Raitha Sahayak app, as it is called, uses a quality assessment report and grading system with no service charge to the user.The app uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to generate the report within 30 seconds, the startup said in a statement. The technology was showcased at the Bangalore Tech Summit, The…

Launch event inaugurated by Shri K Kalimuthu, Consul (Economic, Trade & Commerce), Consulate General, Dubai The platform is specially curated for the UAE and other GCC countries’ markets The platform will create an international network of empowered agri importers & exporters and help them to conduct cross-border trade securely With free lifetime subscription, importers and exporters can easily download the app on Android and iOS platforms Bangalore, 20th September 2022: Walmart and Tiger Global backed…