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The $20 Billion Bet: Why OpenAI-Cerebras Deal is Far More Strategic Than You Think
In the AI infrastructure arms race, speed, capital, and control of the supply chain have become critical. OpenAI and Cerebras are now bound together by all three.
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Inside GenAI Meetup Hosted by RPTech, an NVIDIA Partner, in Association With AIM in Hyderabad
The session explored how developers can build, fine-tune, and deploy AI models locally without relying entirely on cloud APIs.
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Zurich Insurance Group Launches GCC in Hyderabad to Accelerate AI & Technology Capabilities
The Hyderabad GCC will function as a strategic extension of the company’s global operating model.
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OpenAI, Microsoft Make Major Changes to Partnership, Remove the AGI Clause
OpenAI and Microsoft's exclusive partnership is now officially over. On Monday, both companies announced several changes to their existing deal, including the removal of key exclusivity clauses. Additionally, the amended partnership has also ended the vaguely worded artificial general intelligence (AGI) clause, which dictated several “if-this-then-that” scenarios. The new agreement is now clearer and lets both companies better safeguard their interests. Interestingly, the second stage of contract negotiations between Microsoft and OpenAI has occurred just six months after the two entities agreed to let the ChatGPT maker create a for-profit entity.
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NVIDIA Leases 7.6 Lakh Sq ft Office Space in Bengaluru for ₹1,230 Crore Over 10 Years
The space is located at Bagmane Capital – Memphis South Tower and spans 12 floors.
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Reliance to Build India’s Largest AI Data Centre Cluster in Andhra, to Invest $17 Bn
The project is expected to be completed by 2030.
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Bengaluru Leads India’s Startup Funding Race in Q1 2026, Widens Gap With NCR & Mumbai
The funding momentum places Bengaluru well ahead of its closest competitors.
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It Built Bengaluru's Electronic City. Now, it Wants to Make an AI Comeback
From Electronic City to AI skilling, KEONICS plots a comeback. Chairman and Karnataka MLA Sharath Kumar Bache Gowda tells how.
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Energy, Network, Compute: Why Google Picked Vizag for 1 GW Data Centre
Google’s data centre in Vishakhapatnam, being built in partnership with AdaniConneX and Nxtra by Airtel, is part of a 20-year plan.
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Accenture Rolls Out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 7.43 Lakh Employees
Accenture cited Copilot’s ability to access enterprise data across SharePoint and OneDrive as a factor in its rollout.
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DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data
Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised$1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billionto join the race for novel AI models that could outperform large language models. According to its newly launched site, Ineffable aims to create a “superlearner” capable of discovering knowledge and skills without relying on human data by leveraging reinforcement learning — a technique in which AI systems learn through trial and error rather than studying human-generated examples. This is Silver’s area of expertise. A professor at University College London, Silver was until recentlyleading the reinforcement learning teamat Google-owned DeepMind, where he spent more than a decade before leaving to found this new venture. While at DeepMind, Silver was involved in developing programs that beat professional players at chess and the board game Go games by learning purely from experience, without being fed human strategies or game records — defeating the world’s top computer programs in each game. The most notable of these wasAlphaZero. Similarly, Ineffable Intelligence hopes that its superlearner will discover all knowledge from its own experience. Its superlearner may lack experience, but the company doesn’t lack ambition. “If successful, this will represent a scientific breakthrough of comparable magnitude to Darwin: where his law explained all Life, our law will explain and build all Intelligence,” its site claims (capitals included). Referring to Ineffable Intelligence as “his life’s work” in a personal note he has since published on the company’s blog, Silver alsotold Wiredthat “any money that I make from Ineffable will go to high-impact charities that save as many lives as possible.” It is unclear how, when, or how much the venture will make, but this clearly hasn’t hindered fundraising. According to Wired, the round was led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Index Ventures, Google, Nvidia, and others. Among those other investors are theBritish Business Bank and Sovereign AI, the U.K.’s recently launched sovereign venture fund for AI. Fast-forwarding to so-called pentacorn status — meaning companies valued at more than $5 billion — Ineffable Intelligence joins the club of AI ventures founded by star researchers whose names have attracted seed rounds so large they have been nicknamedcoconut rounds(a tongue-in-cheek escalation of the “seed” round). Just last month, AMI Labs, co-founded by Turing Award winner and former Meta AI scientist Yann LeCun,raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. There might be more companies in this mold. Recursive Superintelligence, co-founded by DeepMind’s former principal scientist Tim Rocktäschel and incorporated in the U.K.,reportedly raised $500 million, with enough demand to stretch that amount to $1 billion. While Recursive also has ties to the U.S., these companies suggest mounting momentum around London as an AI hub. This is partly thanks to DeepMind’s continued presence after itsacquisition by Googlein 2014. But it is not just DeepMind. Jeff Bezos’ AI lab, Project Prometheus, isreportedly in talksto secure office space close toGoogle’s AI hub. This also translates into a powerful network of alumni, with several former DeepMind staffers reportedly set to join Ineffable’s executive team.
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OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal
On Monday, Microsoft and OpenAI announced that they have, once again,renegotiated the dealbinding the two companies. Despite some opinions on X that frame it as a victory for the ChatGPT maker over the Windows giant, both sides are walking away winners. Most importantly, the new terms solve an issue that was hanging over OpenAI’s head since it signed itsup-to-$50 billion dealwith Amazon. With this new deal, instead of Microsoft having exclusive access to all of OpenAI’s products and IP until the magical day when OpenAI produces AGI, its partnership has a definitive timeline. This contract gives Microsoft a nonexclusive license to OpenAI IP for models and products through 2032. The two companies are still calling Microsoft OpenAI’s “primary cloud partner,” meaning that the bulk of OpenAI’s cloud will likely be served by Azure for the six years this deal covers, even as OpenAI rushes to build its own data centers with other partners.In October, OpenAI agreed to buy an additional $250 billion worth of Microsoft’s cloud. This line is a message to Microsoft shareholders that OpenAI will still be an enormous Azure customer. OpenAI products will ship “first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities,” the companies say. But, critically, “OpenAI can now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider.” Again, “first” is not defined clearly in this announcement, whether that means exclusive on Azure only for some time period or just that Microsoft will also be among the vendors carrying OpenAI’s latest products. But the most important part of this term: It solves the possibility that Microsoft could sue OpenAI over the AI lab’sdeal with Amazon. To recap that messiness: In February, OpenAI announced that Amazon was investing up to $50 billion in the model maker, comprised of a $15 billion initial investment and another $35 billion “in the coming months when certain conditions are met,” the companies said, without specifying what those conditions were. In exchange, OpenAI agreed to co-develop a “stateful runtime technology” on AWS Bedrock (the AWS service that serves up various AI models and services). Stateful runtime is the tech that supports AI agents, allowing them to remember tasks and contexts for long periods of time. OpenAI also promised that AWS would have exclusive rights to serve up OpenAI’s new agent-making tool, Frontier. And there’s the rub. OpenAI’s initial agreement with Microsoft prevented OpenAI from selling Frontier exclusively on AWS, and possibly prevented AWS from selling it at all. While Microsoft had previously agreed to let OpenAI run certain select products, like consumer ChatGPT, on other cloud providers, it retained exclusive rights to any OpenAI product accessed through an API, such as Frontier. In fact, the same day that OpenAI announced its AWS deal, Microsoft publicly refuted the AWS-exclusive terms,writing(emphasis Microsoft’s): Microsoft maintains its exclusive license and access to intellectual property across OpenAI models and products. …Azure remains the exclusive cloud provider of stateless OpenAI APIs.… Any stateless API calls to OpenAI models that result from a collaboration between OpenAI and any third party — including Amazon — would be hosted on Azure. …OpenAI’s first party products, including Frontier, will continue to be hosted on Azure. Microsoft also emphasized that its terms were in effect until OpenAI achieved AGI. TheFinancial Times reportedthat Microsoft even contemplated legal action if it had to enforce these contract terms. So, the new agreement eliminates Microsoft’s exclusive rights and solves the AWS legal peril. In a post on X, Amazon CEO Andy Jassycelebrated the deal, adding that it meant OpenAI’s models would become available to customers on AWS Bedrock. Very interesting announcement from OpenAI this morning. We’re excited to make OpenAI's models available directly to customers on Bedrock in the coming weeks, alongside the upcoming Stateful Runtime Environment. With this, builders will have even more choice to pick the right… While this deal is good for OpenAI, Microsoft walked with some wins, too. The new deal now allows Microsoft to stop paying a revenue share to OpenAI, while OpenAI will continue to pay a revenue share to Microsoft through 2030, although this is now subject to a cap. Exactly how much cash will flow to Microsoft is hard to tell, but it’s likely in the billions. Last quarter, Microsoft reported thatit made $7.5 billion in a single quarterfrom its investment in OpenAI. The kicker is that Microsoft remains a major shareholder in OpenAI, owning about 27% of the for-profit entity, it said in October. It financially benefits from OpenAI’s growth, even the sales it makes on AWS. The downside, of course, is that Microsoft loses out on any extra cloud services it would be able to sell as a result of an exclusive deal with OpenAI. That may not matter much. Just like OpenAI has been courting Microsoft’s biggest competitors, Microsoft has a new, cozy relationship with OpenAI rivalAnthropicfor the cloud giant to use its Claude AI to power agentic products. The biggest winners here are enterprises, which get to choose their models and their clouds while the giants compete with each other to serve them. Here’s a timeline of the recent changes in Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI: In October,Microsoft and OpenAI announced a new agreementto help OpenAI fend off the lawsuit from Elon Musk about its corporate structure that gives OpenAI the ability to run non-API-accessed products on other clouds. In November, OpenAI and Amazonsigned their first multi-year agreement, in which OpenAI contracted for $38 billion worth of AWS cloud. In February, Amazonannouncedanup to $50 billion investment in OpenAI, pending “certain conditions,” including the exclusive tech development and hosting deal for Frontier and stateful tech. On the same day, Microsoftrefutedthat AWS will have that tech exclusively. In March, the Financial Timespublishedthat Microsoft is considering legal action. In April, OpenAI and Microsoftannounced a new deal, that includes a calendar-end date for their exclusive partnership and allows OpenAI to run all of its products on other clouds. Microsoft no longer has to pay OpenAI revenue share. Microsoft remains a major shareholder in OpenAI.
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