Telangana’s IT minister, Duddilla Sridhar Babu, announced plans to make Hyderabad India’s AI capital by creating a dedicated AI city on 200 acres. The project, starting in September, targets industries like agriculture and healthcare.
Hyderabad's Zen Technologies, with its subsidiary AI Turing Technologies, created Prahasta, a four-legged armed AI robot for defense, named after a Ramayana warrior.
Christina Ernst, a Google software engineer, created the world's first AI dress, featuring robotic snakes that move towards viewers' faces using AI. She shared her journey and challenges in crafting this "robotic Medusa dress" on Instagram.
At the NEDO IIT-Delhi Japan Deep-Tech Collaboration event, NEDO Director General Takeshi Yoshida shared his plans to partner with IIT Delhi's talented students for Japanese deep-tech startups.
OpenAI released GPT-4o (aka "omni") in its spring event on May 13. It's a multilingual chatbot available in voice, text, and vision formats, free for all users. It's twice as fast and half the cost for paid subscribers.