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The transformer birthed GenAI. Meet the man who built it

New Delhi, June 6 -- Eight years ago, Ashish Vaswani led a team of Google Brain researchers that invented the transformer, the magic sauce behind generative AI. The new model, which learns and generat... Read More


Demand for mobile phones, smartwatches plunges

New Delhi, June 3 -- The anticipated upturn for electronics sellers at the start of 2025 seems to have stalled. Analysts and retailers that Mint spoke with reported low footfalls in stores and weak on... Read More


Low demand for smartphones, smartwatches as consumer sentiment sours

New Delhi, June 2 -- The anticipated upturn for electronics sellers at the start of 2025 seems to have stalled. Analysts and retailers that Mint spoke with reported low footfalls in stores and weak on... Read More


IndiaAI Mission gets 16,000 new GPUs, three more foundational models

New Delhi, May 30 -- The Union government on Friday approved the empanelment of 15,640 new graphic processing unit (GPU) processors from data centre and cloud service providers, and also appointed thr... Read More


Assassin's Creed Shadows review: Vast and beautiful, with a story mode

New Delhi, May 30 -- Among all of the world's most popular games, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise is one of the most recognizable names globally. By itself, the lore created by this 18-year-old g... Read More


Highway to Thailand is Assam's trump card in $3 bn pitch for chipmakers

New Delhi, May 26 -- The India-Myanmar-Thailand highway will give Assam the opportunity to export India-made semiconductor chips and attract investments from South-east Asia to open factories in the s... Read More


Sundar Pichai to Mint: Pro-competitive AI, powered by deep research, is Google's path forward

California, May 22 -- Marking a decade as Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai reaffirmed his faith in the power of fundamental research to drive the company's future in artificial intelligence, even as it fac... Read More


Sundar Pichai: Pro-competitive AI, powered by deep research, is Google's path forward

California, May 22 -- Marking a decade as Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai reaffirmed his faith in the power of fundamental research to drive the company's future in artificial intelligence, even as it fac... Read More


What Google Search's chief has to say on AI-an extension, not a replacement

New Delhi, May 21 -- On Tuesday, Google launched an 'AI Mode' in Search-the single-biggest product of its parent company, the US Big Tech firm Alphabet Inc. Google doesn't expect artificial intelligen... Read More


Google steps up the pace in a vicious AI race

Mountain View (US), May 20 -- On Tuesday, Google chief Sundar Pichai opened his keynote at the company's keenly-watched annual developer conference, I/O, with a statistic-the number of developers work... Read More