In the world of finance, the use of AI is tricky owing to privacy issues, the dreaded risk of hallucinations and the guardrails. Given that modern systems are increasingly getting foolproof, there is a huge opportunity for changing the industry with agents—all with a little fine-tuning. Debarag Banerjee, chief AI and data officer at L&T…
A growing number of companies have recently been openly reassessing their technological strategies. For example, Discord is handling trillions of messages with renewed infrastructure, while Netflix continues to rely on an upgraded version of Java, even in 2025. Meta also joins the list, and it turns out that Instagram’s recommendation system doesn’t rely on one…
The intersection of AI, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has quietly unfolded in the Indian landscape. AI is starting to outperform conventional investment bankers in identifying, evaluating and attracting M&A opportunities. Traditional M&A practices rely heavily on public data, banker networks, and executive-level social introductions. Yet, most startups remain private and invisible in…
UPI is the poster child of India’s tech innovation and a benchmark for things to come. Its simple design and the sheer capability to scale it to a billion users make it a masterpiece—one that the world has been trying to replicate in vain. Behind UPI’s seamless simplicity lies a story of hard-won technological independence,…
This year, AMD’s Advancing AI event was on another level. The company made it clear it’s no longer afraid of NVIDIA. It introduced the new Instinct MI350 Series GPUs, built on the CDNA 4 architecture, promising a fourfold generational improvement in AI compute and a 35x leap in inferencing performance. It also launched ROCm 7.0,…
When Alexander Wang founded Scale AI in 2016, the AI landscape was still in its early stages. The data labelling startup, driven by Wang’s vision, quickly became a key player in the AI landscape, growing to over 1,500 employees and securing crucial partnerships across industries and governments. Now, with Meta’s $14.3 billion investment in Scale…
Generative AI is revolutionizing how businesses operate, interact with customers, and innovate. If you’re embarking on the journey to build a generative AI-powered solution, you might wonder how to navigate the complexities involved from selecting the right models to managing prompts and enforcing data privacy. In this post, we show you how to build generative…
This post was co-written with Herb Brittner from Netsertive. Netsertive is a leading digital marketing solutions provider for multi-location brands and franchises, helping businesses maximize local advertising, improve engagement, and gain deep customer insights. With a growing demand in providing more actionable insights from their customer call tracking data, Netsertive needed a solution that could…
According to the World Health Organization, more than 2.2 billion people globally have vision impairment. For compliance with disability legislation, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the United States, media in visual formats like television shows or movies are required to provide accessibility to visually impaired people. This often comes in the…
This post is based on a technical report written by Kazuki Fujii, who led the Llama 3.3 Swallow model development. The Institute of Science Tokyo has successfully trained Llama 3.3 Swallow, a 70-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) with enhanced Japanese capabilities, using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. The model demonstrates superior performance in Japanese language tasks, outperforming…