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Tech giant Microsoft has partnered with Paris-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup Mistral AI which would allow the latter’s AI models to run on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. The less-than-year-old startup is making waves and being considered Europe’s response to AI platforms such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini (formerly known as Bard)Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine…

Google’s Play Store will allow a variety of real money gaming (RMG) apps, which let players wager actual money based on the outcome of online games, to be listed on the platform, it said in a blogpost. At the same time, the popular app store will be charging them a service fee, adding to the pressure their margins already face due to increased indirect taxation.Here’s a deeper dive into what this means for one of the most profitable, and more recently troubled, startup ecosystems in the country:Elevate Your Tech Prowess…

After a prolonged tug-of-war between asset managers and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the regulator green-lit the first-ever US-listed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track the price of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency: bitcoin. The SEC has granted approval to 11 applications from major entities such as BlackRock, Fidelity, Invesco, and ARK Investments.What is an ETF, and why is there a lot of buzz around this?An ETF, or exchange-traded fund, is a type of investment fund or product that trades…

It’s not just the US which is leading the race for releasing generative AI large language models (LLMs). Organisations across China, Korea, Singapore, Japan, France, India and the UAE have built LLMs trained on their native languages, outperforming several performance benchmarks set by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta’s LlaMa, Google’s Gemini, and several other popularly known models.According to data science community platform Hugging Face, there has been a rapid influx of new LLMs, with hundreds being announced every week. Today,…